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To: George, Dick and John Re: Counteracting the Media Evildoers Damage control efforts are on track after those rough days in mid-May.…
The above question screams from mainstream newspapers. It froths from liberals’ lips. What troubles me more, however, is that some leftists also…
When is hopelessness a reasonable response to a terrible situation? Surely, the East Timorese people during the last quarter of the last…
Note: this post is a response from Noam Chomsky in the ZNet Forum’s, a benefit to all ZNet Sustainers…. if this interests…
Politicians are often eager to outdo their foes with media images of greater patriotism or piety. But in mid-May 2002, Republican and…
A basic principle of democracy is that every person’s vote should have equal weight. So we might expect some public discourse about…
A year ago, the Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling observed that “what we feared has come true … War appears an unavoidable…
As globalization from above has grown more destructive, the constructive achievements of globalization from below in the two years since the Battle…
More and more details about the attempted coup against President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela are beginning to emerge, although much of it…
Clare Short promotes herself expertly in the media. She is the “rebel” in the Blair cabinet, the outspoken rough diamond opposed to…
The struggle of Colombians is a struggle against fear and a struggle against invisibility. These are two of the worst weapons used…
Last month, I wrote about Venezuela, pointing out that little had been reported in this country about the achievements of Hugo Chavez…
A triumphant story about National Public Radio appeared in late March on the front page of Current, the main newspaper of the…
The orchestration of the coup was impeccable and, in all likelihood, planned a long time ago. Hugo Chavez, the fascist communist dictator…
It appears that the strategy of President Chavez’ opposition is to create as much chaos and disorder in Venezuela as possible, so…
The long weekend of April 19-22 in Washington, DC represents an historic opportunity for progressive social change movements. The anti-capitalist globalization movement,…
TONY JONES: Noam Chomsky, President Bush’s position on the Middle East crisis is evolving fast now, but until recently there have been…
I sat down the other night to watch Mai Masri’s film Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. It was on videotape; like most…
In times of crisis, many policymakers and journalists pay special attention to the editorializing from America’s most influential papers. The spin of…
Most of the victims of the perpetual war in Colombia are unarmed poor civilians. For every military casualty there are six civilian…
President George W Bush yesterday called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the last week.…
As fighting between Israelis and Palestinians reaches horrible new heights, many are asking whether the time has not finally come to stop…
The basic problem in the Israel-Palestine conflict today remains what it’s been for decades: the denial of self-determination to the Palestinian people.…
Over the weekend of April 19-22, 2002, particularly on April 20th, tens of thousands of people from around the country will participate…
I think that the best way to begin is to repeat what Fr. Cirilo Nacorda said two days ago in Lamitan, Basilan,…
A compliant press is preparing the ground for an all-out attack on Iraq. It never mentions the victims: the young, the…
Steve Shalom. The New York Times ran a story on February 25 by Juan Forero titled “Colombian Rebels Sabotage Peace Hopes.” Perhaps…
By a vote of 1.69 million for Robert Mugabe to 1.28 million for Morgan Tsvangirai, the people of Zimbabwe re-elected the Zimbabwe…
He has won two elections, and he has made a start on relieving poverty. So now the US wants to get rid…
Thomas Friedman has achieved another media triumph with the debut of “Tom’s Journal” on the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” The feature will…
THE conditions in which prisoners are being held brutally and illegally in an American concentration camp on Cuba go to the heart…
The Office of Strategic Influence went from obscurity to infamy to oblivion during a spin cycle that lasted just seven days in…
About two months from now tens of thousands of people will be converging on Washington, D.C. over the weekend of April 19-22.…
On the Times article, I understood it differently. The tone was set in the first paragraph: a remote section of Afghanistan, where…
South African president Thabo Mbeki’s opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: “The global…
MIT professor Noam Chomsky has long been one of the nation’s most implacable critics of US foreign policy and domestic inequity, as…
The art of the deal is a media dream: Savvy achievers get to the top. Guile and artifice — even outright deception…
One of my first assignments as a young reporter in Sydney was to go to the airport and ask famous people arriving…
There are stories that get into the news, and stories that don’t. Sometimes when stories do make the news, they’re provided without…
Few asylum-seekers actually reach Australia‘s shores, and if they do, their treatment beggars belief One of my first assignments as a…
LAST week, the US government announced that it was building the biggest-ever war machine. Military spending will rise to $379billion, of which…
Since September 11th, the progressive movement has been on the defensive. But times are changing. The mushrooming Enron scandal; European criticism of…
Even by Washington’s standards, the ability of John Ashcroft to reinvent himself has been a wonder to behold. Just a year ago,…
The art of the deal is a media dream: Savvy achievers get to the top. Guile and artifice — even outright deception…
1. Is there life after capitalism? Yes, I think there is not only life after capitalism…but a menagerie of sorts –…
The AFL-CIO’s uncritical support of the government’s war in Afghanistan and sham “war on terrorism” has disappointed, if not disillusioned, many activists,…
Tony Blair’s heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following…
Tony Blair’s heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following…
A Difficulty Criticizing Third World States For a leftist from the third world, living in the first world, there is a certain…
Pacifica’s struggle is in a new phase, about to take a big leap forward. Countless activists have pursued diverse strategies and have…
