Fake News And
"Double Standards On An Epic Scale"
"Double Standards On An Epic Scale"
Telling the truth has become a revolutionary act, so let us salute those who disclose the necessary facts.
Authored by Monica Showalter: At the Yale Daily News, East Germany had nothing on the paper's opinion editor, Isis Davis-Marks. Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions. He could be in Grand Strategy or the Yale Political Union. Maybe he's the editor-in-chief of the News. He takes his classes. He networks. And, when it comes time for graduation, he wins all the awards.
One day, I'll turn on the television — or, who knows, maybe televisions will be obsolete by this point — and I'll see him sitting down for his Senate confirmation hearing. Yes, he'll be a bit older, with tiny wrinkles sprouting at the corners of his eyes and a couple of gray hairs jutting out of the top of his widow's peak. But that smile, that characteristic saccharine smile, will remain the same.
By Peter Koenig: Venezuela in the limelight, on practically all the written, audio and visual lame-stream media, as well as alternative media. A purposeful constant drip of outright lies and half-truths, “fake news”, as well as misleading information of all shades and hues about Venezuela is drumming our brains, slowly bending our minds towards believing that – yes, the US has a vital interest in meddling in Venezuela and bringing about “regime change”, because of primarily, the huge reserves of oil, but also of gold, coltan and other rare minerals; and, finally, simply because Washington needs full control of its “backyard”.
By A. Man: What’s the story? Let me pitch it.