by Danny Schechter August 27, 2009 What do we have a right to know?  In this web-based age, where we can Google almost everything, you’d think we would be better informed than we are. We have Freedom of Information laws and a President who has promised transparency, offering some details on what he’s doing on an easy to [...]

by Tiffiniy Cheng August 27, 2009 What’s stopping us from finding solutions to world hunger, environmental crises, poverty, and health issues? It’s not that we don’t have answers. It’s that lobbying and special interest public branding has turned us into a society that makes decisions without observable facts and in a fundamental way, disregards science. We have [...]

by Jonathan Cook July 21, 2009 NAZARETH. ISRAEL // The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet [...]

by Norman Solomon June 8, 2009 It takes at least tacit faith in massive violence to believe that after three decades of horrendous violence in Afghanistan, upping the violence there will improve the situation. Despite the pronouncements from high Washington places that the problems of Afghanistan can’t be solved by military means, 90 percent of the spending for [...]