Rather than doing anything remotely resembling journalism, the Western mass media have opted instead to uncritically repeat what they’ve been told about the airstrike by US officials, which is the same as just publishing Pentagon press releases. Here’s this from the Washington Post: The Biden administration conducted an airstrike against alleged …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Conspiracy theories are caused by government secrecy
The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no obligation to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to its involvement with insurgent militias in Syria, overturning a lower court’s previous ruling in favor of a Buzzfeed News reporter seeking such documents. As Sputnik‘s Morgan Artyukhina clearly outlines, this ruling comes despite the fact …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden continues Trump’s war on the press
Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, Washington has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden continues Trump’s war on the press
Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, Washington has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden’s Iran policy is just Trump’s Iran policy with a rainbow flag emoji
In a new interview with CBS Evening News, President Biden confirmed that his administration will not be lifting sanctions imposed upon Iran in order to bring Tehran to the negotiating table for the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. “Will …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Everything about the Biden administration is fake
A new exclusive from the Daily Beast titled ‘White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance’ reports that the White House press corps is being pressured to provide briefing questions ahead of time in a way that makes even mainstream media journalists uncomfortable. “While it’s a relief to see briefings return, …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: You counter Trumpism by ending the conditions which created it, not with authoritarian policies
The US political/media class have been pushing hard for more authoritarian policies to stave off the threat of “domestic terrorism” in the wake of the Capitol riot. President Biden, who was already working on rolling out new domestic terrorism policies well before January 6, confirmed after the riot that he is making these new measures a …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The next two years will be the Democratic Party at its most transparent
Ending US participation in the Yemen genocide could and should have begun on day one. In These Times reported the following back in November (emphasis added): “One thing Biden can do, starting on day one, is end U.S. involvement in the Yemen war – involvement that he helped initiate. By executive order, Biden could get the Pentagon …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Consent-manufacturing for Patriot Act II continues
It’s been obvious for a long time that the best way to stop the rise of right-wing extremism in America that everyone’s so worried about today is not to pass a bunch of authoritarian laws, but to reverse the policies of soul-crushing neoliberalism and domestic austerity which led to Donald …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: FYI Trump’s latest Yemen move is far worse than the Capitol riot
The US State Department has officially announced its intention to designate Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist group, as many had previously warned. Humanitarian organizations have been condemning the move as it will make it more difficult to provide aid to a population that is already being brutalized by the worst mass atrocity in the entire world, a Saudi-led …
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