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About Ari Paul

Ari Paul has reported for the Nation, the Guardian, the Forward, the Brooklyn Rail, Vice News, In These Times, Jacobin and many other outlets.
  • Detail from an NPR graphic (5/3/22) of Supreme Court justices who supported a draft opinion that would overturn Roe.

    ‘Liberal’ newspapers liked the Justices who will kill Roe

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 16, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that could destroy Roe v. Wade (Politico, 5/2/22) reportedly has the support of three justices appointed by Donald Trump. That’s important for a number of reasons.

  • Politico (2/1/22) framed its article around attacks on Amnesty International, quoting charges that it was “just another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination,” and “likely motivated by antisemitism.”

    The news is not that Israel has apartheid, but that Amnesty dares say so

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 3, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture?

  • New York Post (12/16/21): George Soros ” funnels cash through a complicated web.”

    Reformist DAs spark Murdoch empire freakout

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 14, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who took office January 1, wasted no time getting in the headlines, telling his prosecutors (New York Times, 1/6/22) that they should seek “jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses—including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money.”

  • David Brooks (New York Times, 5/13/21) on “woke” language: “Performing the discourse by canceling and shaming becomes a way of establishing your status and power as an enlightened person.”

    Media’s anti-‘woke’ mania moves social justice to the fringe

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    “Woke” is the label the aggrieved conservative suburbanite puts on the indignity of having to call their Starbucks barista “they” and finding Ibram X. Kendi on their child’s school reading list.

  • Jerusalem Post depiction (6/30/21) of Axel Springer CEO Matthias Döpfner.

    Politico’s Staff must toe new owner’s line—including endorsing Israel

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 5, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    It’s been a rough time for German media giant Axel Springer. The company ousted the top editor at Bild, one of its most influential right-wing newspapers, over sexual harassment charges (New York Times, 10/18/21).

  • ProPublica‘s report (6/8/21)

    Outrage at ProPublica tax leaks underscores their importance

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The report doesn’t show illegal activity; that’s what makes it so damning.

  • WSJ Rage at ‘Woke’ China Foreshadows New Redbaiting of Social Justice Activists

    WSJ rage at ‘woke’ China foreshadows new redbaiting of social justice activists

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Wall Street Journal editorial board has accused a major Chinese newspaper, and by extension the People’s Republic of China, of exploiting progressive rhetoric around racial justice to create division in the United States.

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  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone © UN Photo/Martine Perret | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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