On December 4, CNN announced that prime-time host Chris Cuomo had been terminated. This followed his suspension earlier that week after documents from New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that the anchor had used his position as a journalist to attempt to...
Commentary
Independent Media Calls for More ‘Radical Energy’ on Reproductive Rights
On December 1, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The decision would be a devastating blow to women’s reproductive rights...
The True Cause of the Omicron Variant: Vaccine Hoarding
For months, health experts have warned wealthy countries of the dangers and the immoralities of hoarding the COVID-19 vaccines. Wealthy countries have fully vaccinated about 65% of their populations. In the absence of global vaccination, COVID-19 is not only spreading...
Current Inflation has ‘Everything To Do with Corporate Greed’
Rising inflation in the United States has captured headlines during November. Mainstream media outlets have been warning of increasingly expensive commodities like coffee and deciding where to assign blame — including to Joe Biden, to Americans themselves, and far too...
Found in Translation: New York Times Says Democrats Shouldn’t Challenge Oligarchy
By Norman Solomon & Jeff Cohen A few days after the Nov. 2 election, the New York Times published a vehement editorial calling for the Democratic Party to adopt “moderate” positions and avoid seeking “progressive policies at the expense of bipartisan...
The World Needs More Than Empty Promises from COP26
From a superficial perspective, the developments at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow would appear triumphant and encouraging. In a show of change after the Trump administration’s lack of interest in climate talks and positive climate policies, most of Biden’s...
How the Taliban Beat a Military Superpower
On October 26, Cornell University hosted “Losing the Longest War: Afghanistan, 2001-21,” a public lecture that examined the history of the war in Afghanistan and the larger history of the kind of warfare the United States finds particularly challenging. The event...
Colonialism and Racism are ‘Etched into Global Conservation’ — Prakash Kashwan
On Tuesday, October 26, Dr. Prakash Kashwan joined Ithaca College professor Dr. Jake Brenner for a discussion on environmental justice, interdisciplinary scholarship, and the legacy of colonialism in conservation. Dr. Kashwan is an environmental justice...
Media’s ‘Border Theater’ Ignores Constant U.S. Brutality
For one week, all eyes were on the U.S.-Mexico border. The conservative media was stoking the perception of chaos, a crisis narrative made for national television with headlines such as “Images of Haitian Migrant Surge at Del Rio show chaos under bridge as number...
Corporate Media Myths About the Chaos on Capitol Hill
If you get your news about politics from corporate media, you’re getting myths from journalists and pundits instead of clarity. At Thursday’s boisterous news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a reporter used the phrase “the two biggest spending bills of this...