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UM, WHEN. . .
is that Washington Post series on Jeff Bezos’s and Amazon’s tax avoidance going to run, again? Case closed. But I frequently enjoy reading the Post’s political coverage.
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BUT SANDERS HAS THE EVIDENCE
The Washington Post is supposed to be part of the fact-based community, and usually it is. But not when it comes to Bernie Sanders. FAIR’s Julie Hollar has collected incontrovertible evidence of how biased is the Post’s coverage of Sen. … Continue reading
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ALLEGRA KENT TALKS
Not only a legendary ballerina, but verbally as well as physically articulate: Allegra Kent will be interviewed by Mindy Aloff at the Library for the Performing Arts on October 7. And there’ll be movies!
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WHICH ABJECT FAILURE AND CATASTROPHE WILL THE “MAINSTREAM” MEDIA LIONIZE NEXT?
Remember, Trump was all but conjured out of thin air by the “mainstream” media, which assisted him in creating an utterly ersatz persona and narrative. Let’s scan the horizon and head off the media’s creation of the next Trump!
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A STUDENT OF TOTALITARIAN SOCIETIES
told me she was horrified by Trump’s senile, demagogic rant in Pennsylvania, finding particularly ominous his attempt yet again to float the trial balloon of lifetime dictatorship, framed ( for now) as a joking hypothetical. She reminded me that Trump’s … Continue reading
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CORPORATE MEDIA OWNERSHIP = CORPORATE MEDIA (sometimes most subtly) CENSORSHIP
At Common Dreams, Normon Solomon quotes George Seldes: “The most stupid boast in the history of present-day journalism is that of the writer who says, ‘I have never been given orders; I am free to do as I like.’” “Seldes … Continue reading
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FOX “NEWS” PEDDLES THE OPIATE OF CLIMATE-CHANGE DENIAL
Fox “news” personalities need to prepare for their children’s fury when they discover how their parents foreclosed their futures in the name of short-term financial gain. Thank you, media deregulators, for bringing us this venue of apocalyptic indoctrination!
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TRUMP SHOWS US WHAT HE’S LEARNED IN DICTATORSHIP SEMINAR
His mouthings about how much love he received and how much respect was shown for the office of the presidency–in his words–demonstrate, once again, how he intends to use the converse construction, i.e. criticism of Trump is disrespect toward the … Continue reading
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IF YOU STILL COULDN’T BRING YOURSELF
to admit that the GOP is fascistic– try their latest attempt to criminalize dissent on for size. Regarding their current to muffle with the “terrorist” smear anti-Fascist AntiFa, member David Rose tells Truthout that GOP senators “are attempting to open … Continue reading
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ANY TYPE OF TRANSPARENCY IS ANATHEMA TO TRUMP WORLD
because any degree of transparency reveals the massive, systemic fraud it is committing against America. For Trump’s sleazy, stupid eldest progeny, referencing already publicly-listed identification of Trumps’ donors is tantamount to mass murder. This is their value system: this is … Continue reading
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