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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Just Asking: Media Outfoxed On Spate Of Bizarre Shootings? The idea that the United States is the only country where ferocious financial and political interests would never consider using surrogates to achieve a larger purpose is both statistically impossible and just plain ridiculous. The press frames both individual events and the longer arc of history not as an honest broker but as an integral part of a dangerous fantasy-making machinery.
Thursday, April 11, 2013Just Asking: Media Outfoxed On Spate Of Bizarre Shootings? The idea that the United States is the only country where ferocious financial and political interests would never consider using surrogates to achieve a larger purpose is both statistically impossible and just plain ridiculous. The press frames both individual events and the longer arc of history not as an honest broker but as an integral part of a dangerous fantasy-making machinery.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Syria, The Movie: Monsters and Defectors Any regime considers itself authorized to do whatever it takes to put down insurrection. And when foreign powers are helping the uprising, the regime believes it has even greater cause for muscular action. That's the basic issue in Syria. Yet, because the West, which wants the Assad regime gone, does not have a policy of generally supporting uprisings against authoritarian, repressive regimes it cannot invoke that argument.
Monday, July 16, 2012Syria, The Movie: Monsters and Defectors Any regime considers itself authorized to do whatever it takes to put down insurrection. And when foreign powers are helping the uprising, the regime believes it has even greater cause for muscular action. That's the basic issue in Syria. Yet, because the West, which wants the Assad regime gone, does not have a policy of generally supporting uprisings against authoritarian, repressive regimes it cannot invoke that argument.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Privacy Watch: An Orwellian Bargain The consequences of the steady slide into complete consumer commodification are staggering. Not only are we tagged and labeled like cattle. The long-range implications aren't hard to see: Anyone with ill intentions would be able to track our movements and locate us in a second. They would know where we go, what we do, what we eat, and perhaps who we are with.
Thursday, October 11, 2012Privacy Watch: An Orwellian Bargain The consequences of the steady slide into complete consumer commodification are staggering. Not only are we tagged and labeled like cattle. The long-range implications aren't hard to see: Anyone with ill intentions would be able to track our movements and locate us in a second. They would know where we go, what we do, what we eat, and perhaps who we are with.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Syria: The Dangers of One-Sided Reporting The bottom line is that without journalists verifying, it's not journalism. And it's not worth rushing to report one-sided claims under pressure to scoop the competition instead of waiting for more reliable information.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012Syria: The Dangers of One-Sided Reporting The bottom line is that without journalists verifying, it's not journalism. And it's not worth rushing to report one-sided claims under pressure to scoop the competition instead of waiting for more reliable information.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Talk About Politicizing Intelligence! Meet John Brennan, CIA Chief Designee The Senate hearings on Brennan's nomination at CIA will likely focus only on bite-sized, partisan controversies like the death of America's ambassador to Libya. We're not likely to witness Brennan opening up about the highly delicate topics of recent vintage. Why not at least broaden the inquiry to quiz Brennan on current policy toward murky security matters that are still unresolved decades later?
Thursday, January 10, 2013Talk About Politicizing Intelligence! Meet John Brennan, CIA Chief Designee The Senate hearings on Brennan's nomination at CIA will likely focus only on bite-sized, partisan controversies like the death of America's ambassador to Libya. We're not likely to witness Brennan opening up about the highly delicate topics of recent vintage. Why not at least broaden the inquiry to quiz Brennan on current policy toward murky security matters that are still unresolved decades later?
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Get Your Pink Rifle At Dick's! America's Love Affair With Money And Violence The day of the assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School, Dick's Sporting Goods announced a special cash dividend because the company is just bursting with funds. So, who believes Dick's (or any other gun dealer) is going to stop selling "modern rifles" (for hunting or otherwise) a second longer than it must to survive the current p.r. nightmare?
Thursday, December 20, 2012Get Your Pink Rifle At Dick's! America's Love Affair With Money And Violence The day of the assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School, Dick's Sporting Goods announced a special cash dividend because the company is just bursting with funds. So, who believes Dick's (or any other gun dealer) is going to stop selling "modern rifles" (for hunting or otherwise) a second longer than it must to survive the current p.r. nightmare?
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Trayvon Effect: Americans as Tragedy Addicts The public has trouble focusing on more than one story or one issue at a time. So that means that every week we have a Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman affair, or a Tyler Clementi/Dharun Ravi controversy, or even a Rush Limbaugh/Bill Maher brouhaha, we're unable to focus on things like the constant loss of civil liberties for all, the growing crisis for life on earth, and the destruction of democracy by corporate capital.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012The Trayvon Effect: Americans as Tragedy Addicts The public has trouble focusing on more than one story or one issue at a time. So that means that every week we have a Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman affair, or a Tyler Clementi/Dharun Ravi controversy, or even a Rush Limbaugh/Bill Maher brouhaha, we're unable to focus on things like the constant loss of civil liberties for all, the growing crisis for life on earth, and the destruction of democracy by corporate capital.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Libya Update, Featuring Media and Congress as Daffy Duck Bottom line -- a majority in the House doesn't want to authorize continued US operations in Libya, but neither does it want to block it outright. We have a chaotic bipartisan free-for-all, with some pro-Obama Democrats going along with whatever he wants to do, and some war-oriented Republicans abandoning partisanship and saying, "why sure, bombs away!"
Thursday, June 30, 2011Libya Update, Featuring Media and Congress as Daffy Duck Bottom line -- a majority in the House doesn't want to authorize continued US operations in Libya, but neither does it want to block it outright. We have a chaotic bipartisan free-for-all, with some pro-Obama Democrats going along with whatever he wants to do, and some war-oriented Republicans abandoning partisanship and saying, "why sure, bombs away!"
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Explainer: How Poor Timing Buries Important News Timing is everything in the news business. That's why those seeking maximum impact typically seek to make announcements when people are paying attention and when there's little competing news. A lot of those rules went out the window with the arrival of the 24-hour cable news cycle and the subsequent rise of the instantaneous posting culture on Twitter and other social media.
Saturday, December 29, 2012Explainer: How Poor Timing Buries Important News Timing is everything in the news business. That's why those seeking maximum impact typically seek to make announcements when people are paying attention and when there's little competing news. A lot of those rules went out the window with the arrival of the 24-hour cable news cycle and the subsequent rise of the instantaneous posting culture on Twitter and other social media.
