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Kamala Harris Dons Progressive Mantle in Public, Strips it Off in Private as She Courts Israel Lobby

Kamala Harris has sought to publicly cast herself as progressive while privately catering to special interests, including the Israel lobby.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Kamala Harris | Israel Lobby

WASHINGTON -- Confirming long-held speculation, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has announced that she will be running for president in 2020, pitting her against other Democratic senators such as Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as well as Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI). Harris’ announcement has generated some buzz but surprised few,

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Sana’a Civilians Killed as Saudi Airstrikes Target Yemen’s Capital

“Saudi fighter jets were hovering above our head and launching very violent raids, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the war began three years ago. The neighboring houses shook so much we thought an earthquake hit the area.” —  Sana’a resident Ali Abdul Salam Damesh

Ahmed Abdulkareem
بواسطة Ahmed Abdulkareem

SANA’A, YEMEN --  “Saudi fighter jets were hovering above our head and launching very violent raids, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the war began three years ago,” 52-year-old Ali Abdul Salam Damesh told MintPress News. "The neighboring houses shook so much we thought an earthquake hit the area.” Damesh was one of the escapees who was

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Buzzfeed, Question Time and the Purpose of Fake News

Careful “leaks”, planted stories and social media witch-hunts remind Trump how precarious his position is, whilst simultaneously distracting the public – both pro-Trump and anti-Trump – from real issues.

Kit Knightly
بواسطة Kit Knightly
BuzzFeed | Fake News

Last week BuzzFeed published a front page story, under a “BREAKING” banner, headlined: President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project In the article, Buzzfeed reporters Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier claim to have been told, by two anonymous sources, that Robert Mueller’s “Russiagate”

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Marie Colvin, Homs and Media Falsehoods about Syria

Seven years after death, Rick Sterling examines Marie Colvin’s reporting from Syria amidst a wave of new articles, books, and movies about her and how she died.

Rick Sterling
بواسطة Rick Sterling
Syria | Marie Colvin

In April 2014 I was part of an international delegation which visited Syria for five days. The delegates came from many different countries. Among the notables were the Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, a Syrian-British heart surgeon, and Julian Assange’s father. We spent time in Damascus and then traveled by bus to Latakia and then Homs. In

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New Study Finds 50-Year History of Anti-Palestine Bias in Mainstream News Reporting

A study of 50 years of headlines in 5 top newspapers finds that media coverage of Israel-Palestine favors Israel by providing more overall coverage, more positive coverage, and greater access to Israeli voices than to Palestinian ones. Much of this can be attributed to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby.

Kathryn Shihadah
بواسطة Kathryn Shihadah
Israel | News Media Bias

A recent media study based on an analysis of 50 years of data found that major U.S. newspapers have provided consistently skewed, pro-Israel reporting on Israel-Palestine. The study, conducted by 416Labs, a Toronto-based consulting and research firm, is the largest of its kind. Using computer analysis, researchers evaluated the headlines of

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Twitter Calls on US to #FreeMarziehHashemi as Lawyers Attempt to Unseal Case

One may be inclined to think that the arrest of Hashemi on Sunday would infuriate those who uphold the sanctity of the fourth estate. But Hashemi, a black American Muslim woman who works for Iran’s state-funded Press TV, is no friend of the establishment media.

Alexander Rubinstein
بواسطة Alexander Rubinstein
Marzieh Hashemi

American journalist Marzieh Hashemi was arrested on Sunday by the FBI as a witness in a criminal case with no further information provided. On Friday, a motion was introduced to at a DC court to unseal proceedings in her case in an apparent effort to shed some light on what has become an international incident shrouded in mystery. Records reveal

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