 Kevin Marley: The Souls of Black Folk "The Souls of Black Folks" originally written as a novel by W.E.B. DuBois is now a poem, more or less, for the 21st century as the struggle for egalitarianism and freedom continue, perhaps, even more so. |
 Arlen Grossman: The Night Joe Biden Woke Up As his poll numbers stagnated and it became conceivable Donald Trump could return to power, Joe Biden needed to shake things up. His best opportunity to do so came up: his final State of the Union Address. Biden seemed to come alive and surprised most observers. But will his newfound energy be enough to make a difference? We only have until November to find out . 1  |
 Bob Gaydos: All the news, if you can find it When your hometown newspaper ends home delivery and The New York Times mistakes the forest for the trees, who connects the dots? |
 Jay Janson: Awful Feeling! 'Starving Palestinian Children Are Watching Me Eat Their Food '- Can't Take It Anymore I want to tell the children I feel are watching me eat, to go watch the sky for an American plane dropping meals to them, but I imagine the severely traumatised children (who have their eyes on the food on my plate), have had their homes, playgrounds and schools destroyed, many of their brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, teachers and playmates killed by American planes dropping bombs on them. 5 |
Jay Janson: Hegemonic Western Colonialist Media Journalists Are Accessories to Israeli Mass Murder of Children
"Modern Israel enjoys "the same encouragement, the same funding, and the same support" of the collective West like Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany before the World War II, The Western elites kept quiet because they were preparing Hitler for him to launch his military power against the Soviet Union. ultimately, Hitler was a construct, a monster created by the collective West. 1 |
Robert Weiner: Can a President Really Pardon Himself? No, According to History, Precedent, and Case Law, Despite Media Pundits
A president cannot pardon himself. Donald Trump has damaged the image of the President of the United States enough, but he can certainly destroy it further if he is allowed to pardon himself. |
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Jay Janson: "The 'Reality' Around Us Is Constructed By Liars "Journalists are war criminals" Julian Assange Explains
Julian Assange has brought to our attention the pleasant-looking evening news anchor who captivates TV audiences with alternating joviality and gravitas, asking whether they should be seen as insidiously evil as they generate support for horrific suffering, death, maiming and destruction. 1 |
Mohan Nepali: Need to utilize media freedom for a healthy democracy in Nepal
A more verifying, critical and analytical media approach is the need of the day toward utilizing media freedom for building a healthy democracy in Nepal. 1 |
 Bob Gaydos: Snoop Dogg, ghee and me! Join me on an impromptu international journey. It's all about mind/body balance and a little clarified butter. |
 Rama Rao Malladi: Three South Asian Countries Face Credibility Question in 2024 Polls B'desh, Pakistan and India are going to elect their new governments early next year. This is a strange coincidence as the three nations were together in undivided India before Aug 1947, and share the same heritage. All the three of them are democracies in their own right. And face credibility gap. |
 Bob Gaydos: Connecting the dots on five lives This past week, five prominent figures in American society died, one after another, and it seemed, at least to me, that the dots were literally screaming to be connected: Charles T. Munger, 99; Rosalynn Carter, 99; Henry Kissinger, 100; Sandra Day O'Connor, 93, and Norman Lear, 101. 1 |
 Gerald Scorse: Baseball owners blow off fans in favor of streaming dollars Slowly, shamefully, baseball fans are being mistreated: unless they subscribe to certain streaming services, they aren't able to see certain games (including playoff games). 1 |
 Bob Gaydos: Artificial Intelligence and artificial ethics The Supreme Court and some geniuses promoting artificial intelligence both insist they are bound by ethical codes of conduct. They're just having trouble proving it. |
 Frank Faiola: OPINION: It Shouldn't Be Hard to Condemn Terrorists Fringe groups on the political left openly support Hamas' terrorist attacks on Israel that killed 1400 people, mostly innocent civilians. In the aftermath of Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, some fringe-left factions are forming alliances with anti-Zionist entities. These groups demonstrate solidarity with Hamas' acts of violence, justifying them as "resistance" and "liberation." 2 |
Robert Weiner: Afghan Women Unprotected by Both Biden and Trump Peace and Exit Deals--Can Still Be Fixed
What has happened to Afghanistan girls and women is atrocious and inhumane by any standard. World media knows it. The Taliban know it, and we know it. Jointly, we can do something about it. |
 Gerald Scorse: My love affair with print newspapers The decline and possible extinction of print newspapers has been a sad thing to watch. For the writer, it's been particularly sad: he has to decide between a new technology and one he's lived with, and loved, for decades. 7 |
 Bart Klein Ikink: Every Order Needs a Story Every social order needs a story, and to protect the social order, the elites use propaganda. Every story contains falsehoods, and so does the liberal story that underpins our current order. The alternatives are often worse. But the liberal story is falling apart, so we may need a new powerful story we can believe in. 1 |
Joe Giambrone: "Journalism" Today: Selling You #Nazis
So-called "journalists" are in full spin mode, trying to obfuscate away the plague of Ukrainian Nazis. Now that the photos and videos are E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E, cannot be contained, and the lies told about it are O-B-V-I-O-U-S, the CIA's fallback position is to make them the good kind of Nazis. 1 |
 Bob Gaydos: My dinner with Donald, part two Ultimately, I decided there could be no dinner talk with Donald Trump because from what I've seen, he doesn't have conversations. He talks at you. He makes pronouncements. 2 |
 John F. Miglio: RFK Jr. Can Win the Presidency If... Can RFK Jr. win over the DNC and the mainstream news media in his quest for the presidency? 43 |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Attacks on Pakistan Military, a sacred cow
Once unthinkable, the scenes of violent protest that broke out across Pakistan on Tuesday after the arrest of the former prime minister, Imran Khan, seemed to cross a line against defying the army that has rarely been breached in Pakistan's turbulent history, the New York Times said. |
 Bob Gaydos: Marianne or RFK Jr.? Not over 'Old Joe' The Biden campaign message is that he will save democracy now for the younger, more energetic Democrats who follow him to improve on a little later. Be patient. |
 Thomas Knapp: Mainstream Media Turn Coats on "National Security" Leaks In theory, journalism's job is to inform the public. In practice, "mainstream" journalism has, for at least the last few decades, largely become the government's stenography pool, reliably reporting every official assertion as fact and seldom asking pointed questions about any subject more important than which politician has been having sex with which porn star. |
 Thomas Knapp: State Media: He Who Pays the Piper ... FDR once told a group lobbying him on behalf of a reform they wanted, "you've convinced me -- now go out and bring pressure on me." The mission of state-affiliated media is to "bring pressure" on the US government to do what it's already doing. Want to know what the American political establishment thinks -- and wants you to support? Just tune in to the daily episodes of "Morning Edition" or "All Things Considered." |
 Kevin Marley: Ahem, Told You So! An article that in a land far, far away, maybe, perhaps, ahem, in another galaxy, where logic and reason still reigned supreme, why didn't we invoke the 5th and why didn't the media just call President Trump outright a dangerous and corrupt president as even our General MIlley and own military believed that he was an existential threat to the country? When should we stop being so 'objective' and 'polite'? 2 |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: The US report lists 'significant human rights' abuses in Modi's India
The annual U.S. report on human rights practices released on Monday listed "significant human rights issues" and abuses in India, including targeting of religious minorities, dissidents and journalists. In an annual report on human rights practices, the Joe Biden administration urged India to uphold human rights commitments and obligations. 1 |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Siddique Jan's arrest exposes Pakistan government's repression against journalists
Amid the ongoing crackdown on the media in Pakistan, Pakistani state authorities have arrested another journalist, Siddique Jan, in the federal capital Islamabad, media reported Monday. According to media reports, Siddique Jan, who is currently working as Bureau Chief of Bol News TV in Islamabad, was present outside his office when some men in plainclothes whisked him away. |
 Bob Gaydos: Don't call me, Rupert; I'll call you Rupert Murdoch displays a cynical disregard for the truth or the gullibility of his audience except when it suits his purpose. |
 Dan Cooper: Fox "News" and the Dominion defamation lawsuit Fox is silent on Dominion's defamation lawsuit. Of course. 5 |
 Michael Morrissey: From Hero to Zero: Jens Berger on the German Media This is a translation of Jens Berger's article in NachDenkSeiten.de, published here with the author's permission, about the German media reaction to Seymour Hersh's revelations about the Nord Stream sabotage 4 |
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