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Brutally Honest: Facebook Removes Images Of Starving Children from Yemen

A couple of questions describe the problem with censorship: Who controls the censors? What biases do they have?

by Mike Shedlock

The New York Times’ Shaky Case that Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election

Gareth Porter dissects the New York Times Shane & Mazzetti’s case that the Russian government seriously threatened to tip the 2016 election through social media.

The New York Times’ Shaky Case that Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election

In their long recapitulation of the case that Russia subverted the 2016 election, Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times painted a picture of highly effective Russian government exploitation of social media for that

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Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and historian on U.S. national security policy and the recipient of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. His most recent book is Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, published in 2014.

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Why the New York Times Editorial Opposing Military Intervention in Venezuela May Do More Harm Than Good

Establishment liberals are using their opposition to Trump’s military threats as a cover to back economic sanctions currently wrecking the Venezuelan economy, argues Professor Steve Ellner.

Why the New York Times Editorial Opposing Military Intervention in Venezuela May Do More Harm Than Good

There is a growing body of pro-establishment statements opposing the possibility of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. The latest expression of this position is a New York Times editorial titled “Stay Out of Venezuela, Mr. Trump” published on September 11. At first glance, the editorial is a welcomed statement that counters the careless

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Steve Ellner

Steve Ellner

Steve Ellner is a Participating Editor of Latin American Perspectives and is the coordinator of that journal’s January 2019 issue that will be titled “Latin America’s Progressive Governments: Separating Socio-Economic Breakthroughs and Shortcomings.”

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“Covert Coup” Revealed in Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Is a Threat, Much Like Trump

“Trump may be a threat,” notes journalist Glenn Greenwald, “but so is this covert coup” that seeks to impose its “own ideology with zero democratic accountability, mandate or transparency.”

“Covert Coup” Revealed in Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Is a Threat, Much Like Trump

What's more troubling: That the grotesque liar and right-wing narcissist Donald Trump was elected by the American people to be President of the United States in 2016? Or that there is now apparently a secret cabal of unelected right-wing officials inside his White House—at least according to a New York Times op-ed 

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How the Mainstream Media Keeps Russiagate Alive

Reuters’ use of ‘but’ and ‘may’ perpetuate the Russiagate narrative.  The New York Times simply asserts it as undeniable.

How the Mainstream Media Keeps Russiagate Alive

WASHINGTON -- After Paul Manafort was convicted and Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to various charges not related to Russian interference in the 2016 elections, the mainstream media still keeps the issue alive with disingenuous assertions. In a Reuters commentary, “

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Upset By The New York Times “Racist” Hire? A Brief History of Racism at the U.S.’ “Paper of Record”

Those criticizing the Times for Jeong’s hire should be well aware that the paper has a history of hiring racist journalists and that the paper itself has even been sued for past racist policies.

Upset By The New York Times “Racist” Hire? A Brief History of Racism at the U.S.’ “Paper of Record”

NEW YORK -- On Wednesday, the New York Times’ announcement of its most recent hire -- South Korean-American journalist Sarah Jeong -- quickly sparked controversy following the emergence of Jeong’s past racist tweets targeting Caucasians. The tweets -- which included

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann's Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.

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An Open Letter to New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger

The Times has always been a newspaper by, and for, the elite, but by squeezing out the few alternative voices that you once employed, it no longer publishes those articles that illuminate and connect us to a world outside the Beltway, or beyond Harvard Square.

An Open Letter to New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger

Dear Mr. Sulzberger,  I read with great interest news accounts of your conversation with President Trump, in which you admonished him for his inflammatory characterization of the media as “fake

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Jon Jeter

Jon Jeter

Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”

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