Joe Lauria: As the US funnels money and arms to Ukraine, independent media faces pressure to parrot the official narrative

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Joe Lauria: As the US funnels money and arms to Ukraine, independent media faces pressure to parrot the official narrative

Democracy Now July 14, 2022 As the Pentagon authorizes an additional $400 million for Ukraine’s defense on Friday, bringing estimated total U.S. security spending on Ukraine under President Biden to a staggering $8 billion, we speak to Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, about the pressure on news media to follow a single approved narrative […]

COVID-19: Prepared for the Wrong War

By on    Alternative media - peace journalism, Catastrophe & breakdown, Human rights and justice, Military & militarism (MIMAC), United States - Empire and domestic, US Empire decline, US EMPIRE/WEST DECLINE  

COVID-19: Prepared for the Wrong War

Joe Lauria April 15, 2020 In Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ science fiction fantasy, War of the Worlds, all the military spending and preparedness by the United States could not defend the American people from the invaders from Mars. In the end what killed the superior intruders was not arms, but a microscopic […]