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Thomas Friedman’s Perverse Love Affair With ISIS
Thomas Friedman urges Donald Trump to be “utterly cynical”–not unlike a Thomas Friedman column. For the second time in as many years, Thomas Friedman has explicitly advocated that the United States use...
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After US Bombs Syrian Government for Third Time in 8 Months, Media Ask Few...
The United States has bombed Syrian government–allied forces three times in just eight months. Major media outlets have overwhelmingly failed to ask critical questions about these incidents,...
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Eager for World War III on MSNBC
“Escalating Tensions”: After the US shot down a Syrian plane, MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell asserted, “The criticism is that the president is reluctant to go after Russia.” If we’re heading toward World War...
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Syria the Latest Case of US ‘Stumbling’ Into War
A recent headline in The Atlantic (6/9/17) earnestly pondered if the US was “Getting Sucked Into More War in Syria.” “Even as Washington potentially stumbles into war…” was how the article’s discussion...
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Media Mourn End of CIA Killing Syrians and Strengthening Al Qaeda
The US government has finally announced an end to its years-long program to arm and train Syrian rebels. The initiative, one of the CIA’s largest covert operations, with billions of dollars of funding,...
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Body Count Comeback
AP story on CBS‘s site (8/10/16) on how many ISIS fighters have been “taken off the battlefield.” One of the hoariest methods of modern war propaganda remains the official body count. Government or...
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The Essential Pundit Take: ‘Trump Became President’ by Bombing Syria
Fareed Zakaria: Presidents “don’t need to go to a pesky Congress every time they want military force.” “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States” last night, CNN host Fareed Zakaria...
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Five Top Papers Run 18 Opinion Pieces Praising Syria Strikes–Zero Are Critical
Not The Onion. Five major US newspapers—the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News—offered no opinion space to anyone opposed to Donald Trump’s Thursday...
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Out of 47 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Only One Opposed
Of the top 100 US newspapers, 47 ran editorials on President Donald Trump’s Syria airstrikes last week: 39 in favor, seven ambiguous and only one opposed to the military attack. In other words, 83...
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Thomas Friedman’s Perverse Love Affair With ISIS
Thomas Friedman urges Donald Trump to be “utterly cynical”–not unlike a Thomas Friedman column. For the second time in as many years, Thomas Friedman has explicitly advocated that the United States use...
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Syrian Airstrikes Rekindle Media’s Love Affair With US Violence
Corporate media reaction to Donald Trump’s April 6 missile strike on a Syrian airfield might be summed up in an ironic tweet from FAIR analyst Adam Johnson: “Find someone who looks at you the way US...
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After US Bombs Syrian Government for Third Time in 8 Months, Media Ask Few...
The United States has bombed Syrian government–allied forces three times in just eight months. Major media outlets have overwhelmingly failed to ask critical questions about these incidents,...
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Eager for World War III on MSNBC
“Escalating Tensions”: After the US shot down a Syrian plane, MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell asserted, “The criticism is that the president is reluctant to go after Russia.” If we’re heading toward World War...
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Syria the Latest Case of US ‘Stumbling’ Into War
A recent headline in The Atlantic (6/9/17) earnestly pondered if the US was “Getting Sucked Into More War in Syria.” “Even as Washington potentially stumbles into war…” was how the article’s discussion...
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Media Mourn End of CIA Killing Syrians and Strengthening Al Qaeda
The US government has finally announced an end to its years-long program to arm and train Syrian rebels. The initiative, one of the CIA’s largest covert operations, with billions of dollars of funding,...
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Body Count Comeback
AP story on CBS‘s site (8/10/16) on how many ISIS fighters have been “taken off the battlefield.” One of the hoariest methods of modern war propaganda remains the official body count. Government or...
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Soundbites June 2017
Trump Becomes President—Because Bombing Zakaria to Trump: No need to go to a “pesky Congress” “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States. I think this was actually a big moment…....
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Tillerson’s Promise of More War in Syria Gets Warm Reception From Corporate...
Washington Post (1/22/18): Tillerson will break with Obama’s Syria policies by maintaining the occupation of Syria started by Obama. In a speech at Stanford this month, US Secretary of State Rex...
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Painting an Israeli Attack on Syria as Israeli ‘Retaliation’
Reuters, Vice and LA Times write about Israeli “retaliation.” Israel claimed that it intercepted an Iranian drone in Israeli airspace on Saturday, February 10; Iran denied that it had a drone there....
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Media Erase US Role in Syria’s Misery, Call for US to Inflict More Misery
Simon Tisdall argues in the Guardian (2/10/18) that “the West let down Syria”—not by fueling a murderous civil war, but by failing to ensure that its chosen side prevailed in that war. In the Guardian...
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