Subjects Archives: Media

Bob McChesney, that prescient seer on the subject of media consolidation and much more, died last month.

‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.

In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

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Three universities Middle East Eye spoke to said they only found out after checking the student record database.

Martin Heidegger was arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century.

Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.

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On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.

The attack on the Indigo 11 is part of a systematic effort to disrupt and contain the growing Palestine solidarity movement.

On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe.

El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era.

CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.

Ten years after one student’s bold action a month earlier inspired protests which led to the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heike Becker recounts this historical occasion by linking this as well as subsequent and earlier protests to broader conversations about decolonization and concerns about racism, marginalization and inequality.

Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University’s role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump administration.

An order based on the Alien Enemies Act was issued by U.S. President Donald Trump to supposedly stop an invasion of the defunct Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua (TDA). This is the first time said law has been invoked since World War II, although it dates back to 1798.