I am rethinking it all — nations, globes, gender, race. There are no effective borders left as each seeps further into the other. I have been tracking this seepage for the last four decades, but this scenario was triggered by gender imagery in the Ukraine war. Change...
Jeff Cohen appeared on Free Speech TV’s “Just Solutions” this month to speak about wartime censorship in United States news media. While today’s empathetic coverage of Ukrainian civilians provides appropriate emphasis on the non-combatant casualties of war, such...
On March 7, Aaron Sachs gave a talk examining how a historical perspective on environmental justice can offer a “radical, positive vision of collective thriving.” Sachs holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and is Professor of History at Cornell University, which hosted...
Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the "War on Terror" and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today's war coverage are dizzying to me. Civilians While covering Russia’s horrific aggression in Ukraine, there...
Democracies require vibrant debates, especially before wars are launched. There are virtually no dissenting views and no debates on U.S. television as the world is led again to war. This time over Ukraine. Remember the run-up to the Iraq War and FAIR's 2-week study of...
For the fourth Year in a Row, the Pentagon Failed a $200-Million Audit of its $780-Billion Budget and $3-Trillion Balance Sheet One of the biggest blacked-out stories of 2021 surely has to be the news, on November 16, that the Pentagon once again had abysmally failed...
“The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible” — Toni Cade Bambara The American public is being told to get used to living with COVID-19. This means “we” are being asked to abide the inequalities that disallow a more robust challenge to the virus....
On January 6, 2021, loyalists to then-President Donald Trump unleashed a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol building. The riot interrupted the certification of the 2020 election after Trump gave a speech doubling down on his “big lie” that the outcome of voting was...
As the U.S. and China ratchet up political tensions, media consumers should be wary of the spate of news stories that sell us on the need for the United States’ violent foreign policy. The Cold War is Back Reboots of popular franchises are all the rage right now in...
Like many other people my age, I am in possession of tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of student loan debt. I am also one of the lucky 44.7 million who dreads the looming loan repayments that will come due again on February 1, 2022. Financial advisor Chris...
