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South Koreans sue government over climate change, saying policy violates human rights
South Koreans sue government over climate change, saying policy violates human rights Plaintiffs, lawyers and activists gather outside South Korea’s constitutional court in Seoul ahead of a public hearing for a climate lawsuit on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. SEOUL — As plaintiffs, lawyers and activists chanted slogans outside South Korea’s constitutional court on Tuesday, 17-month-old […]
Biden says he worries that cutting oil production too fast will hurt working people
Biden says he worries that cutting oil production too fast will hurt working people President Biden spent three days in Rome talking to world leaders before and during the G-20. He held a formal press conference before heading to the UN climate summit in Glasgow. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Biden said on Sunday […]
New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms
New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms Soil on hilltops in this photo is lighter in color, revealing a loss of fertile topsoil. Evan Thaler for NPR Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America’s Midwestern prairie. A team of scientists just came up with a staggering new estimate for […]
The Prevalence of Myth over History
The Prevalence of Myth over History Today (Nov. 9) I heard a black historian on NPR say that the “civil war” was fought in order to establish a framework for human rights. He also said that black civil rights achieved by the war were overturned by the rollback of Reconstruction, put back in place by […]
OPINION: CBS’s & NPR’s Rabidly False ‘News’ About the Khashoggi Case
OPINION: CBS’s & NPR’s Rabidly False ‘News’ About the Khashoggi Case CBS It’s a lie to say, as CBS ‘News’ did on October 24th, that Saudi Crown Prince Salman couldn’t have done what Turkey says he did in the Khashoggi case — couldn’t do it, because it’s not in the Saud family’s “DNA” to do […]
How the U.S. Does Propaganda
How the U.S. Does Propaganda A typical example was on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday,” on September 8th, when the program-host Scott Simon interviewed the Obama Administration’s diplomat Robert Malley, in a segment titled “What’s Next In The Syrian War: Idlib”. Simon’s introduction said: “After this weekend, the last contested region of Syria may come under […]
Putin Confronts The American Dystopia
Putin Confronts The American Dystopia We have to hand it to Putin. He is the best that there is. Note the ease with which he mopped up the floor with that idiot Chris Wallace. https://www.rt.com/usa/433447-putin-interview-fox-wallace/ What is wrong with the US media that it cannot produce a second competent journalist as company for Tucker Carlson? […]
‘Whataboutism’ is a Nonsensical Propaganda Term Used to Defend the Failed Status Quo
‘Whataboutism’ is a Nonsensical Propaganda Term Used to Defend the Failed Status Quo If you spend any time on Twitter, you’ll probably be familiar with the latest pathetic attempt to defend and insulate the U.S. status quo from criticism. It centers around the usage of an infantile and meaningless term, “whataboutism.” Let’s begin with one […]
NPR, the CIA and Corporatism
NPR, the CIA and Corporatism Photo by Todd Huffman | CC by 2.0 In her five-minute interview with Ursula Wilder, a CIA psychologist whose job there is debriefing returning spies, NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly (their alleged National Security Correspondent) spoke of what makes someone who reveals state secrets tick. Kelly failed big-time to probe Wilder […]
When Newspapers Die and Reporters Go Bad
When Newspapers Die and Reporters Go Bad When right wingers go off on NPR and the New York Times for being mouthpieces of the Democratic Party or left wingers criticize Fox News and PBS for having too many conservatives on the air, it makes my head spin. Is there no such thing as truth anymore or not a single honest […]
Gullible Americans Forever
Gullible Americans Forever “Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is […]
NATO Lies to NPR
NATO Lies to NPR On June 17th, U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed NATO’s and America’s General Ben Hodges, who is the Commanding General of the U.S. Army in Europe, which is “NATO’s most senior land forces command.” He said (after 4:54 in the audio): “This notion that somehow, Russia, you know, has no choice but to respond or […]
