If the former U.S. secretary of state and her peers are only consuming legacy news sources then they’d be the ones who are uninformed, writes Aastha Uprety.
Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.
News outlets are so busy chasing Israel’s latest crime in Gaza — currently its horrific attack on Nasser Hospital — they never pause to piece together the bigger story of genocide.
It’s a symptom of Western civilization’s sickness that prominent people are only now expressing qualms about the prolonged and monstrous abuses Israel has been committing in plain sight.
This week, Kamala Harris said she knows about voter revulsion over the Israeli genocide in Palestine. But people better vote for her anyway if they want abortions and affordable groceries.
Nat Parry reflects on a Democratic theme — which Biden raised in his withdrawal announcement last week — that their party will protect democracy from Donald Trump.