Subjects Archives: Media

The following article by Carlos Martinez responds to a recent article in The Times complaining about TikTok users not being sufficiently anti-China. The only explanation the Times journalist can muster is that TikTok’s algorithms must be weighted to promote pro-CPC content.

Among the concessions agreed to by the university are a ban on face masks at protests and the hiring of 36 “special officers” with the power to remove or arrest students.

Yesterday Google bought Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion.

The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.

Despite being among the most impacted by economic war, women continue to foster a sense of solidarity, care, and hope in humanity.

Bruce Robbins tells Real Talk he could be ‘thrown to the lions’ over steps he took during last year’s campus protests.

First it was the media funded by USAID, then those that received money from the NED howled; now Radio and TV “Martí” itself have fallen on the list of cuts.

Like the people of Gaza after the January 17, 2025 ceasefire there, thousands of the 1.4 million Lebanese people displaced by Israeli bombings are streaming home in long lines to their villages, even though Israel reduced scores of towns to rubble.

Karl Marx wrote, “Prostitution is only a specific example of the general prostitution of the laborer.”

What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.

Some world events can look different to those of us onthis side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at what Trump, Vance and Musk are doing and planning. Nor do I love Putin. But what I hate above all else is war—and is closer over here. I’m […]

Columbia University issued suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations to students connected to the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall, as ICE agents reportedly arrested a second Palestinian Columbia student on Friday.

When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.

As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.

Although she is now an academic, she has never left the world of international security, making the subject her area of expertise. She has made a point of trying to lift women’s voices in the field. One of these was the then-U.S. Director of National Security, Avril Haines, whom she spoke with in 2023.

Despite many obstacles, popular feminism is advancing grassroots struggles in Venezuela.

Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”

“In a healthy democracy, we would be investing enough in our public-media system that it wouldn’t need to seek any corporate underwriting,” says Craig Aaron

False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.

In his famous “March to the Sea” in 1864, during the final phase of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman faced a problem.