Last year, news broke about evidence confirming Russian buyers used Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election. In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts intended to exploit America’s racial divisions. Facebook said...
"Judging by the climate coverage to date, most of the US news media still don’t get grasp the seriousness of this issue. This journalistic failure has given rise to a calamitous public ignorance, which in turn has...
I expected the typical build-up. Most of the day my phone pinged with alerts like this one from Politico:  “4 key questions about 2020 that Democrats are about to answer” Then there was this one, also from Politico: “Warren...
An effective way of dividing up an electorate is to separate the "right" from the "left,"  "liberals" from "conservatives," "liberals" from "progressives," "centrists" from "progressives," "alternative" from "mainstream." This is no more evident than in the...
Asylum seekers are not the only ones being detained at the U.S.-Mexico Southern border. Customs are Border Patrol (CBP) officers have now trained their attention on journalists, lawyers, and activists. According to documents NBC KNSD-TV obtained, CBP has a...
Ever get into it with someone over something in the news? In today's media climate, one person involved in that conversation is inevitably going to take a swipe at the "liberal bias" networks like CNN and MSNBC reportedly espouse. Although its grip...
“5,000 troops to Colombia.” That's what National Security Adviser John Bolton had scrawled at the top of his notepad with which he walked into a briefing on Monday. Does that mean we're planning on sending soldiers to Columbia? Why...
Joe Madison, progressive talk show host on Sirius XM satellite radio's Urban View channel, suggested on the air this week that Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employees stationed at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport should stage a mass sickout immediately...
The corporate media is in an abusive relationship with Donald Trump. No matter how many times he attacks with claims of "fake news," and calls journalists the "enemy of the people;" no matter how worked up...
2018 will probably go down in history as one of the most, shall we say, interesting years in history. There are too many examples to list. But one disturbing trend bears discussion. 2018 was an extremely violent year. It holds...
Last year, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts that suggest African American rights groups, like Black Lives Matter, posed a political threat, in an effort to exploit racial divisions. Facebook said at least $100,000...
Since taking office on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump has been handed several opportunities to do the right thing. These opportunities were so obvious. All they required was someone with enough common sense and compassion to...
Last week, USA Today published an opinion editorial column attributed to Donald Trump titled "Democrats 'Medicare for All' plan will demolish promises to seniors." Immediately, Washington Post fact-checkers got to work. And what they found was nothing short of astounding. It turns...
Have you seen any of these headlines? “Bernie and His Army Are Losing 2018” (Politico, 8/8/18) “Democratic Party’s Liberal Insurgency Hits a Wall in Midwest Primaries” (Washington Post, 8/8/18) “The Far Left Is Losing” (US News &...
On December 14 of last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted three to two along party lines to repeal regulations protecting the free and open internet, known as net neutrality. This means Internet Service Providers (ISP) are now legally permitted...
The Russians are not coming. They are already here. Weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, warned that almost two decades since the September 11, 2001 attacks, “warning lights are blinking red again” for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S....
Is it happening? Weeks after Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, warned that almost two decades since the September 11, 2001 attacks, “warning lights are blinking red again” for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S. infrastructure, and six months after Department of...
California is burning--again. This time, over 100,000 acres and a thousand homes have been engulfed in the seventh most destructive fire in the state’s history. Some climate scientists are claiming this is all part of "the new reality" about...
Two weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, warned that almost two decades after the September 11, 2001 attacks, “warning lights are blinking red again” for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S. infrastructure. Six months ago, Department of Homeland Security...
Russian meddling in our elections is bad enough. But if groups of tech-savvy government mandarins are able to infiltrate our social media to disseminate propaganda and disinformation, they are capable of going further. How about messing with...