media

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Think of the 2016 presidential campaign as the political equivalent of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. It’s loud; there are plenty of abusive special effects; the critics hate it, but the crowds turn out; a media company or three rake in the dough; and foreigners […]

Islam-hatred

This Muslim American Life, between Trump and Aziz Ansari: Moustafa Bayoumi Is a Scribe on a Quest

contributors

by Neda Simaika and Raihan Faroqui | (informed Comment) | – – The award-winning author and professor of English at Brooklyn College (CUNY), Moustafa Bayoumi, discusses the fight to protect American values for all people (including Muslim Americans), a healthy dose of imagination, and the Netflix original series, Master of None. Q. In your recent […]

Iraq

Visualization: How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)

contributors

By Kathy Gilsinan, Caitlin Cadieux, Daniel Lombroso | (The Atlantic Video Report) | – – “Americans are constantly being told that ISIS is a massive threat—but what does that mean? Are there ways to quantify how big the Islamic State actually is? Atlantic senior editor Kathy Gilsinan breaks down ISIS by the numbers, including the […]

journalism

The Way American Media covers Attacks

contributors

Sana Saeed | (AJ+ Video report) | – – “Why is American media so biased in the way it covers attacks in Europe compared to how it covers the rest of the world?” AJ+: ” The Way American Media Covers Attacks”

Bernie Sanders

Amy Goodman: Media ‘manufacturing consent’ for Trump over Sanders via Blackout

contributors

Bernieforpresident | (CNN’s Reliable Sources Video) | – – “DemocracyNow! host Amy Goodman told CNN’s Brian Stelter that his network and most other mainstream media were “manufacturing consent” for Donald Trump by giving him more airtime than other candidates.” Bernieforpresident: “Amy Goodman rips CNN for airing Trump’s empty stage instead of Sanders’ speech’

Bernie Sanders

New York Times Edits Pro-Bernie Article Into Hit Piece

contributors

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Interesting development: The New York Times wrote a positive story about Bernie Sanders… for a few hours until they edited it into a hatched job. Why did this happen? Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you […]

journalism

America’s Groundhog Day in Afghanistan and Iraq: The Headlines just Recycle

contributors

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – With General John Campbell’s tour of duty in Afghanistan finished, a new commander has taken over. Admittedly, things did not go well during Campbell’s year and a half heading up the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) there, but that’s par for the course. In late 2015, while […]

Featured

The Middle East reacts to Trump: ‘Strange Candidates’ with ‘Weird Beliefs’ & anti-Muslim Pogroms

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The meltdown of the US Republican Party is an unlovely sight inside the country, but what do people abroad think about the outlandish assertions of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump? Last week the Mufti of Egypt Shawqi Allam (maybe analogous to the president of the US Conference […]