It’s chilling to think how many “symbolically powerful” presidential “appointments” could be made to distract from wretched nature of the elite-backed candidates in the USA
Media Lens never engaged in “sexist abuse” of Emma Brockes, or anyone else, and never made threats against Bronwen Maddox. Unsurprisingly, the…
In 2009, a peer-reviewed Harvard study concluded that deficiencies in the USA’s health care system kill 45,000 US citizens
On twitter David Smilde calls out this article by the WAPO’s Nick Miroff as a “smart Piece” An excerpt follows: “I think…
A serious human rights group can only miss that if it wants to
This is quite a refreshingly in-depth article by Reuters (authors Andrew Cawthorne and Girish Gupta) that explores the most extremist elements of…
We urgently need a mass media that does not chase after ad revenue or well-off subscribers
Reuters’ Caracas folks write as if they’ve been told that only Datanalisis poll results can be reported. Datanalisis is an opposition aligned…
The “sharp departure” is in how the US government now regards Venezuela – and the corporate press follows the US government’s lead
The Economist trotted out a farcical excuse that has become popular among Obama’s apologists – that labeling the situation in Venezuela an “extraordinary threat” to…
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