From communes to techno weaponry - the whole story
Last week, virtually every news outlet in the global North ignored a landmark meeting where leaders of low-income countries articulated their positions prior to the make-or-break United Nations COP26 climate summit in November.
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The media are a culture war battlefield. Domestic and foreign policy too
What will writers do when the outrage is over? Will they go back to writing about flowers and moons?
My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.
The right-wing has effectively taken over much of the media, from TV stations to radio and podcasts. Fortunately, labor organizers and analysts are creating high quality informative podcasts and news shows.
John Reed was confronted with the choice between popular and profitable hypocrisy in the capitalist journals, and disreputable truth in the revolutionary press. He chose the truth.
Among the topics on the union’s agenda at NowThis are pay and fairness, but also near the top of the list are diversity concerns.
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