All of a sudden the establishment media appear to have developed something of a spine around the 2003 Iraq war and occupation. Yet, in this frenzy to hold officials accountable for the Iraq war, the role of media complicity is all but ignored. As Matt Taibbi wrote, various editors “quietly sat by and let lie Read the full article…
In a recent CNN interview, religion scholar Reza Aslan was asked by journalist Alisyn Camerota if Islam is violent given the “primitive treatment in Muslim countries of women and other minorities.” Aslan responded by stating that the conditions for women in Muslim majority countries vary. While women cannot drive in Saudi Arabia, elsewhere in various Muslim majority Read the full article…
As we mark another anniversary of the attacks in 2001, it seems as if little has changed. We appear to be caught in a time loop where history keeps repeating itself again and again. If it was al Qaeda in 2001 that represented the pinnacle of all things evil that animated the US invasion of Afghanistan Read the full article…
Israeli propaganda has hit a new low. While the world was still trying to come to terms with the mass deaths in Shejaiya, Benjamin Netanyahu went on CNN to state that Hamas uses the “telegenically dead” to further “their cause.” He added that for Hamas: “The more the dead, the better.” Even while Netanyahu followed Read the full article…
by Arun Kundnani and Deepa Kumar The U.S. government has been snooping on prominent members of the Muslim-American community, according to documents released by National Security Agency whistle-blowerEdward Snowden and publicized in a story byGlenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain of the online publication Intercept. That story reveals that the NSA and FBI covertly monitored the emails of five Muslim-Americans who have “all Read the full article…
For more than 30 years, media and pop culture have used scare tactics and racial profiling to overwhelm Americans with fear of the dark-skinned terrorist. Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing, users of the social networking site Reddit organized a campaign to identify the suspects. After pouring through scores of photos, they fixated on two Read the full article…
A federal judge made a serious error recently in throwing out an important case about whether the U.S. government can kill U.S. citizens abroad without due process. Three U.S. citizens Anwar Al-Aulaki, Abdulrahman Al-Aulaki, and Samir Khan were executed in US drone strikes in Yemen in 2011. Their families brought a lawsuit to obtain justice. Read the full article…
Watch RT anchor Abby Martin take on the US corporate lapdog media. After her bold statement opposing Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the US media have been a flutter trying to expose the pro-Russian slant on RT. Abby responds by saying yes this true, but then the US corporate media are no less propagandistic in a Read the full article…
Pearson, Inc., which dominates the world of education testing and technology, was recently in the news because of illegal practices carried out by its charitable wing. Charitable foundations are not supposed to be in the business of making money, hence the word “charity.” But in a move that would have made Scrooge proud (both Ebenezer Read the full article…
I have spent over a decade speaking and writing about empire and racism. For the most part this experience has been positive — I have met thousands of amazing people in this country and around the world and have learned so much from their questions and their experiences.
One of the unintended outcomes of the NSA leaks has been the spotlight it has cast on journalism. Again and again, with calm and poise, Greenwald has exposed the media lapdogs of empire and the subservient ways in which they parrot government positions as if they were the truth. This is one of best takedowns Read the full article…
A shorter version of this piece first appeared on Al Jazeera (English) Cornel West, on HBO’s Real Time, reiterated his criticism that President Obama is a “war criminal” for killing innocent people through drone strikes. He went on to make a simple, but rarely heard observation, that if you “have an empire, you’re going to Read the full article…