‘Fake News’ and Trumpian Rhetoric Echo Around the World
Reading Time: 5 minutes President Donald Trump loves the world’s strongmen for their power, preeminence, and the deference that surrounds them. They love him for his spin.
Picking Sides in Saudi Arabia’s Feud With Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes What happens when you oppress basically everybody who is not a prince? You have idiots running the country. Exhibit A is Saudi Arabia, which just started an ill-advised fight with Canada.
RadioWhoWhatWhy: Trials are Not a Search for the Truth
Reading Time: 2 minutes The mainstream media seems to be moving to where WhoWhatWhy has long been on the Boston bombing story. Welcome to the truth.
What Venezuela’s UN Seat Illuminates About US Hypocrisy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Venezuela’s ascendancy to the UN Security Council is prompting a fusillade of criticism from the U.S. That’s predictable enough. But the media coverage of Venezuela’s human rights record reveals an interesting aspect of America—selective national blindness about the very same record at home.
John Brennan in Grad School: Destroying Democracy Helps Save It
Reading Time: 9 minutes What can we learn about the future from the past? A lot, if we look closely at Obama’s CIA director John Brennan, his Master’s thesis, and his beliefs and track record on human and media rights.
TVWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker on Human Rights Groups’ Syria Reporting
Reading Time: 1 minute WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker talks with RT’s Liz Wahl about Syria, and about how we should treat human rights groups’ reports on the situation there. April 12, 2012
‘Syria’s Torture Machine’: British Documentary Offers Cause For Concern In More Ways Than One
Reading Time: 3 minutes British documentary offers cause for concern in more ways than one.
Worth Reading: Nasty Rap for Would-be Rep; China’s Toxic Kids; Perry Prays but Won’t Pay
Reading Time: 1 minute Video Gets Deservedly Bad Rap There are nasty, ugly, racist tv ads. And then there’s this. Click on picture above to watch the video. Story on this from Salon. ——–China’s Poisoned Children The Chinese government is covering up the fact that hundreds of thousands of children living near industrial areas in China are suffering Read More