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Montana TikTok ban a sign of intensified cold war with China
It’s worth remembering that fear of an Asian menace in the United States led to the nation’s first major immigration restrictions and mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It continues to lead to racist murder and other anti-Asian crimes.
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‘Apartheid’ designation ignored as Israel kills children in Gaza AGAIN
Israel’s recent bombing of the Gaza Strip from May 9–13 killed 33 Palestinians, including seven children. FAIR looked at coverage of these attacks from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn’t find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community.
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‘The court’s position is, no one can tell them what to do’
CounterSpin interview with Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court corruption
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‘The U.S. incarcerates more immigrants than anywhere else in the World’
CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on detention center fire.
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Starbucks ‘workers and consumers have the same foe’
CounterSpin interview with Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks organizing.
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Trump’s idling plane got more TV coverage than Biden cutting healthcare for 15 million
Last spring, the Biden administration and a Democratic House approved a policy that would kick 15 million people off of Medicaid.
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U.S. media cheer as France forces old people to work
“The Party Is Ending for French Retirees.” That’s the headline the Wall Street Journal (3/14/23) went with just days before French President Emmanuel Macron invoked a special article of the constitution to bypass the National Assembly and enshrine an increase in the retirement age in national law.
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Covering (up) antiwar protest in U.S. media
March 18 DC peace march almost completely blacked out in U.S. corporate media.
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ACTION ALERT: Trump rules remain at FCC as Democrats cave to Big Cable, Fox News
Remember Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer Trump put in charge of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)? When he gutted net neutrality rules and kneecapped the agency’s ability to regulate telecom monopolies, voters from across the political spectrum were outraged. The internet erupted in protest.
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Major U.S. outlets found Hersh’s Nord Stream scoop too hot to handle
Scores of hits from publications across the globe pop up from an internet search for veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s claim that the US destroyed Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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Nicaragua’s ‘political prisoners’ would be criminals by U.S. standards
In an unexpected move on February 9, the Nicaraguan government deported to the United States 222 people who were in prison, and moved to strip them of their citizenship.
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The Washington Post is coming for your retirement benefits
When Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he didn’t transform it into a paper that elevated the perspectives of the wealthy elite—it had already been that for decades.
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NYT trans letter a fight for media democracy
In a letter to New York Times leadership (2/15/23), more than 180 of the paper’s contributors (later swelling to more than 1,000) raised “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people.”
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ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in denial on Japanese persecution in World War II
The Times should issue an immediate correction and apology.
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60 Minutes’ weight-loss tip: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
People in the United States have grown accustomed to endless pharmaceutical ads when watching TV. The industry is the fourth-biggest spender on TV advertising in the country—one of only two in the world (along with New Zealand) that allows such direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs.
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Facebook protects Nazis to protect Ukraine proxy war
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on January 19 that the company no longer considers Ukraine’s Azov Regiment to be a “dangerous organization.”
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‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
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NYT worries Big Brother is not watching you
You might think, Wow, I didn’t think the Times had it in it to take on Google, Meta and Amazon so directly. Well… you’d be right.
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New Yorker takes aim at people who still think Covid is a problem
There is an episode of the Fox animated series Family Guy where the family dog, Brian, is welcomed as a possible new contributor at the New Yorker.
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The right turns anti-LGBTQ hate up to 11
In the past few years, the right-wing media have become laser-focused on transgender issues, not always attacking trans people individually, but instead claiming that children are being “groomed” to adopt “radical gender ideology,” and that rights for the trans community are infringing on the rights of children, women and Christians.