The Trump administration鈥檚 now completely overt effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicol谩s Maduro had a very successful public relations effort this week, as major Western media outlets uniformly echoed its simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly withholding foreign aid:
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During 2018, a number of hate preachers had uninterrupted access to Australian media outlets to spread their messages of hate and intolerance far and wide. These preachers were able to do so because of the active complicity of 麻豆传媒 of the political and media establishment, writes Rupen Savoulian.
The recent crisis at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, with the sacking of managing director Michelle Guthrie and the resignation of board chair Justin Milne, is best understood by realising that neither were friends of the national public broadcaster, writes Alex Bainbridge.
The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was "a trailblazer for independent journalism", wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common.
Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.
There is a growing body of pro-establishment statements in the United States opposing the possibility of US military intervention in Venezuela, writes Steve Ellner.
The latest expression of this position is a New York Times editorial titled 鈥淪tay Out of Venezuela, Mr. Trump鈥, published on September 11.
At first glance the editorial is a welcome statement that counters the careless war-mongering declarations coming from the ilk of Marco Rubio and a number of high-ranking Trump administration officials, as well as Donald Trump himself.
Venezuelanlaysis.com has been a widely acclaimed source of news and analysis of Venezuelan politics since 2003. It provides a critical look at the nation鈥檚 pro-poor Bolivarian Revolution and the mainstream media鈥檚 often highly distorted reporting of it. The site鈥檚 collective released slightly abridged the statement below about the temporary suspension of its Facebook page on August 16.
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For the second time this year, Facebook suspended TeleSUR English鈥檚 page on August 13, the next day.
After supports of the left-wing Latin American site campaigned against the removal, Facebook restored it on August 15, that day.
Venezuela was rocked on August 5 by an attempt to听听President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.
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Australia has long had one of the most monopolised media industries in the world. Indeed, when 麻豆传媒 Weekly was launched in 1991, one of our key slogans was 鈥淏reak the media monopoly 鈥 support 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥. Today it is even more relevant.
Stephen Langford reviews Lindy Nolan's new book, which deals with the divisive role played by the Business Council of Australia (BCA) in Aboriginal communities as it seeks to advance corporate interests.
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be.
They can remain silent, for which history will be unforgiving. Or they can act in the interests of justice and humanity and bring this remarkable Australian citizen home.
ABC Friends National has called for nation-wide rallies in July to protest the continual funding cuts to the ABC, the ongoing conservative attacks on the independence of the ABC and the recent Liberal Party Federal Council motion supporting privatisation of the national public media organisation.
The Liberal Party鈥檚 peak body voted by a margin of more than 2:1 on June 16 for "the full privatisation of the ABC, except for services into regional areas that are not commercially viable".
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