Category Archives: Media watch

The Catherine Principle for Negotiating With the Turks – Let Arms Do the Talking

Why Catherine the Great’s lessons for dealing with Turks are still operative.

Andrew Bacevich: Pseudo-Events as a New Normal

Are pseudo-events the bread and circuses of the Information Age?

Twitter Is Blocking My Tweets (Updated: Back to Normal)

I appear to have been banned on Twitter.

#MeToo Shamefully Nowhere To Be Found as SEIU Not Only Refuses to Fire Staffers Charged With Multiple Instances of Sexual Misconduct, but Retaliates Against Press and Whistleblowers

SEIU is acting like thugs. Please help reporter Mike Elk who has exposed more of their dirty linen than they can stand to have aired.

The Truth & the Irony: Consortium News and The Continuing Tale of Chrystia Freeland’s Grandfather and His and Her Nazi Scheme for Ukraine Today

Consortium News is suing Canada’s NSA for depicting the publisher as part of a Russian cyber-campaign for exposing then Foreign Minsister Chrystia Freeland lying over her history. But has CN undermined its case?

The 2020 Election in Three Graphs

Following the all-important election money.

Can The US Assassination Of Qassem Soleimani Be Justified?

A useful high level discussion of the Soleimani killing.

Jane Fonda Is Pitching For Our Future. Lend an Ear.

Jane Fonda gave an engaging yet forceful talk on climate change at the Press Club.

Bloomberg Making Nice to China Pays Off; Highly Profitable Conferences Help Stoke Terminal Business

Bloomberg goes to some lengths to toady to China. And his commercial motives are much more obvious than Trump’s were with Russia.

Iraq Coverage: Yet Another Cavalcade of Stupid at the Wall Street Journal

Our famously free press in action.

Tucker Carlson Tears into Vulture Capitalist Paul Singer for Strip Mining American Towns

Tucker Carlson takes on the feared vulture capitalist Paul Singer as an examplar of how hedge funds are destroying American communities.