Category: Media

The FBI Investigated Robert Parry

April 28, 2020

The bureau’s file on Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, was released last month, Joe Lauria reports.

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Latest Sinophobia Fest

April 27, 2020

Watch, read, and listen as Washington and its media clerks manufacture our consent for a full-dress Cold War with China.

COVID-19: In NYT, US Intelligence Portray Veteran DC Columnist’s Report as Chinese Disinformation Meant to Sow Panic

April 23, 2020

UPDATED: A sentence from a supposed “fake” Chinese-promoted social media message also appeared word-for-word in a veteran DC reporter’s column, Joe Lauria reports.

COVID-19: New York Times Revives its Role in Chinagate

April 22, 2020

The New York Times Building in Manhattan. (Adam Jones on Flickr)

UPDATED: The paper of record is again laundering, without skepticism, U.S. intelligence meant to ratchet up tensions with China, just as it did with Russia, writes Joe Lauria.

COVID-19: MSM China Hysteria Gets Way Crazier & Dumber

April 21, 2020

It is never a good sign when the political/media class all across the aisle begins loudly trying to out-hawk one another, says Caitlin Johnstone.

WATCH: ASSANGE EXTRADITION: John Pilger, Stefania Maurizi and Charles Glass

April 17, 2020

Watch Journalists Speak Out, with John Pilger, Stefania Maurizi and Charles Glass.

ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Spread of Coronavirus in Belmarsh Prison Brings Death Sentence to Free Speech

April 13, 2020

With the British state’s failure to provide basic medical care and safety to inmates, and its often punitive and cruel policies, the disease of disdain for human life and rule of law has now become pandemic, writes Nozomi Hayase.

WATCH: Dan Ellsberg, Chris Hedges, Marjorie Cohn & Aaron Mate on the First Anniversary of Assange’s Arrest

April 11, 2020

Watch the replay of a discussion about the case of Julian Assange one year after his arrest with Dan Ellsberg, Chris Hedges, Marjorie Cohn & Aaron Mate.