Charles Koch’s Very Questionable 6-Step Guide To Founding A Free-Market Center At Your University
Since 1980, the family foundations of billionaire industrialist Charles Koch have gifted roughly $200 million to U.S. colleges and universities, largely to promote libertarian, free-market economics programs around the nation.
How Breitbart News Became The Official Propaganda Arm Of The Trump Campaign
Breitbart News has relentlessly defended Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric and problematic statements, from commending Trump for “changing the debate on illegal immigration” with his statement that Mexican immigrants are “rapists” to defending Corey Lewandowski over Breitbart News’ own reporter, Michelle Fields.
How Do We ‘Fight ISIS’ After Orlando?
Yes, Omar Mateen did declare allegiance to ISIS just before the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. So did the shooters in San Bernardino, California. But in these cases and many others, the so-called “lone wolf” attackers had little formal or logistical connections to terror groups: they simply absorbed propaganda and acted on it. This new breed of terrorism is designed to evade the information age, and “making the sand glow” won’t help stop it.
North Korea Orders Troops On War Footing After Exchange Of Fire With South
Tension on the divided Korean peninsula escalated on Thursday when the North and South exchanged artillery fire over propaganda broadcasts.
White House Accuses Russia Of Anti-U.S. Propaganda War In Ukraine
By Paul Richter, Tribune Washington Bureau VIENNA — The Obama administration’s dispute with the Kremlin over the unrest in Ukraine has turned to a new controversy: whether heavily armed men in a grainy image are trigger-happy American mercenaries in Ukraine — or a police SWAT team in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Russia has warned […]
Bogus Social Security History Lesson On The Internet
Like an irritating canker sore that just won’t go away, there is a plague of propaganda on the Internet that lingers and lingers — spreading half-truths and outright lies about Social Security to millions of Americans. At least once or twice a day, someone forwards me an Internet message that claims to be providing a […]
What Fox News Isn’t
A few words on what Fox News is. The question has, of course, been debated forever. Fox says it is, as the name would suggest, a news network. Its critics say it is actually the propaganda arm of the Republican Party and that its highest loyalty is not to accuracy, fairness or other journalistic values […]