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As Trump Commits to Endless War, Corporate Media Obsess Over Anonymous Op-Ed
Corporate media obsessed over the whodunit of an anonymous op-ed published by the New York Times (9/5/18). The anonymous New York Times op-ed (9/5/18), purportedly written by a senior Trump...
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Media Worried US Won’t Occupy Syria Forever
by Gregory Shupak In December, President Donald Trump said that he planned to withdraw the US troops from Syria, which number between 2,000 and 4,000. Trump’s claim was widely condemned in corporate...
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Corporate Media Target Gabbard for Her Anti-Interventionism—a Word They Can...
Tulsi Gabbard being challenged on The View (2/20/19) by Ana Navarro: “Why are you so against intervention in Venezuela?” Presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has not garnered much press coverage since...
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Khury Petersen-Smith on Turkey & the Kurds, Alex Vitale on the Purpose of...
PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link (cc photo: Kurdishstruggle) This week on CounterSpin: “US withdraws from Syria, in a remarkable betrayal of the Kurds” is a fair characterization of corporate news media’s...
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Media Alarmed by Imaginary US Pullout From Syria
President Donald Trump’s modification of the US’s Syria policy has generated a torrent of confusion, so it’s worth reviewing the record. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham announced on...
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‘This Is the Latest Chapter of a Long History of US Betrayal of Kurds’ -...
Janine Jackson interviewed IPS’s Khury Petersen-Smith about the Turkish invasion of Syria for the October 18, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. PlayStop pop out X MP3...
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Media Conceal—or Celebrate—Depriving Syrians of Food and Medicine
Late last month, the latest round of United States sanctions, known as the Caesar Act, took effect against Syria, a country already in a dire situation after nine years of war and sanctions. Covid-19...
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Humanitarian Imperialism
Aversion to military intervention has been the default position of the left for at least half a century—certainly since the huge protests against the Vietnam War. Washington planners lamented the...
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Purging Inconvenient Facts in Coverage of Biden’s ‘First’ Air Attacks
NBC‘s headline (2/26/21) is more confident than the article it accompanies, which says that “Iranian-backed militias were most likely behind the attack the US said it was “retaliating against.” When...
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Media’s Top Meaning for ‘Proxy’ Is ‘Iranian Ally’
Foreign Policy (1/10/20) depicts “Iran’s proxy threat” as “the real problem.” “Proxy,” defined as someone who works on someone else’s behalf, is a term of delegitimation in international politics: It...
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