Journalism is most valuable when it is devoted to what is most difficult: focusing on the bad acts of one’s own side, holding accountable those who wield power in one’s own country, and challenging the orthodoxies most cherished by one’s own society.
The journalistic climate created by CNN neuters journalists, renders them impotent and their function largely irrelevant, and — by design or otherwise — obliterates a vital check on tyrannical impulses.
Does anyone believe that college and post-graduate students should be able to express only those ideas about Israel that Dianne Feinstein and her war-profiteering husband deem acceptable? The power duo is attempting to impose exactly those rules.
Listening to standard-issue neocons speak in a way they thought would not be public gives some insight into how they actually think and what they're saying when talking to one another.
Many of the immigrants I met had worked in war zones alongside the Americans or the English or were escaping a common enemy like ISIS. Their plight reflected Europe’s and the United States’ refusal to accept responsibility for decades of violent meddling in other countries.
In the midst of a very effective speech in defense of an important deal with Iran, Obama proudly summarizes a disgraceful part of his legacy: one of militarism and aggression.
Wyllys’ unexpected stance is a powerful case study in exploiting liberal social issues to generate left-wing support for militarism.
The Center for American Progress censored its own writers to placate anger from AIPAC and embraced some shockingly extreme policies of militarism.
The fallacy of "whataboutism" is now a favorite Western tactic for distracting from one's own abuses, demanding that one's citizens focus on the crimes of other governments rather than their own.
Where are all the newfound free speech activists who insisted that a defense of free expression was so vital to all that is good and just in the Western world? Why isn't the #JeSuisBDS hashtag trending in defense of these activists who have been persecuted — prosecuted — by France for their political views?
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