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US Isn’t Leaving Syria—but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
The White House made clear that Trump’s talk of pulling out of Syria was just talk (Independent, 4/4/18)–but not before numerous media figures expressed alarm that the illegal occupation might end. At...
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Major Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III
The New York Times (4/9/18) calls Syria “a crucial test for Mr. Trump, who has shirked America’s traditional leadership role.” Western governments accuse the Syrian government of carrying out a...
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Few to No Anti-Bombing Voices as Trump Prepares to Escalate Syria War
This Washington Post op-ed (4/11/18) was one of several that promoted the myth that “the world did nothing” to Syria. The curators of American public opinion at the three most influential broadsheets...
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Out of 26 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Zero Opposed
“Only…with the departure of the Assad regime, will it be possible to ensure that Syrians do not suffer more atrocities,” the Washington Post (4/14/18) editorialized. A survey by FAIR of the top 100...
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Greg Shupak on Syrian Airstrikes
PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link (cc photo: Alisdare Hickson) This week on CounterSpin: The United States military is, at any given moment, visiting lethal violence on human beings—with families, and hopes...
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Media Support US Violence Against Syria, but Long for More
And by “reckoning,” the Atlantic (4/14/18) appeared to mean “a war with Russia and its allies.” Corporate media outlets were glad that the US, France and Britain bombed Syria in violation of...
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‘The US Is Not at All Interested in the Welfare of the Syrian People’
Janine Jackson interviewed Gregory Shupak about US policy toward Syria for the April 20, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link Janine Jackson:...
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Soundbites: April 2018
NPR Brings You the Unheard Voice of Rush Limbaugh After 17 people were shot to death in the Parkland massacre, NPR’s All Things Considered ran a segment (2/19/18) quoting noted gun expert Rush Limbaugh...
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Laundering a Massacre By Labeling It a ‘Clash’
As FAIR has noted before (e.g., Extra!, 1/17; FAIR.org, 4/2/18), the term “clash” is almost always used to launder power asymmetry and give the reader the impression of two equal warring sides. It...
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A ‘Regime’ Is a Government at Odds With the US Empire
(Washington Post, 5/19/18) In the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an article in the Miami Herald (8/5/18) reported that “a clandestine group formed...
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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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