President-elect Donald J. Trump took a well-documented victory lap last week after negotiating a deal with the Carrier Corporation to keep 1000 jobs in Indiana, reversing the company’s plan to ship the jobs overseas to its Monterrey, Mexico, factory. Trump was effusive on Twitter, crowing: “Big day on Thursday for Indiana and the great workers of that wonderful state.… Continue Reading
I’ve already written a fair amount about the 2016 presidential race, particularly the Democratic primary. I also imagine that lots of folks are probably exhausted from wall-to-wall Trump coverage. “He’s a demagogue!”; “He’s speaks for a disempowered bloc of struggling white Americans!”… Continue Reading
By now it is widely understood among Sanders supporters that the mainstream media has been relentlessly pro-Clinton in its coverage of the Democratic race.… Continue Reading
Michael Hayden, CIA Director from 2006 – 2009, claims in a recent New York Times op-ed that the US drone program is “the most precise and effective application of firepower in the history of armed conflict.” … Continue Reading
Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist, intellectual, and political activist, wrote in his seminal book “Manufacturing Consent,” that the mass media “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function,… Continue Reading