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Syrian Arab and Kurdish civilians arrive to Hassakeh city after fleeing following Turkish bombardment on Syria's northeastern towns along the Turkish border on October 10, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP aia Getty Images)

Humanitarian imperialism: How the media exploits liberals’ empathy to sell them war

Alan MacLeod
Bernie Sanders and the Moscow Red Square with the State Historical Museum at the background (Getty Images/AP Photo)

How to explain Bernie Sanders’ rise? Mainstream media looks to Russian “meddling”

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Amy Robach and Jeffrey Epstein (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan/Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images/Salon)

ABC News had the goods on Jeffrey Epstein years ago — and killed the story

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Demonstrators who support the opposition presidential candidate Mesa run to supporters of the current head of state Morales in a protest. Election observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) had recommended that the president, who had been in office since 2006, allow a run-off election. (Gaton Brito/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why the Bolivia coup is not a coup — because the U.S. foreign policy establishment wanted it

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People demonstrate at Plaza Italia on the fifth straight day of street violence which erupted over a now suspended hike in metro ticket prices, in Santiago on October 22, 2019. - President Sebastian Pinera convened a meeting with leaders of Chile's political parties on Tuesday in the hope of finding a way to end street violence that has claimed 15 lives, as anti-government campaigners threatened new protests. (PEDRO UGARTE/AFP via Getty Images)

The revolution isn’t being televised: Beyond Hong Kong, media ignores global protests

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Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska and American businessman David H. Koch (Pascal Le Segretain/Lars Niki/Getty Images/Salon)

According to media, Russia has “oligarchs,” but America only has “businessmen”

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An F/A 18E Super Hornet from the United States Navy fighter squadron VFA-115 (Getty/Ian Hitchcock)

Our poor, struggling military-industrial complex: How will it survive on $750 billion?

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Julian Assange (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

The Manafort-Assange meeting that wasn’t: A case study in journalistic malpractice

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Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (AP/Alexei Nikolsky/Susan Walsh)

Is the paranoia justified? Now Russiagate has leaked into the 2018 midterms

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Mark Zuckerberg (AP/Salon)

Facebook’s blatant propaganda partnerships: This is defending democracy?

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Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

How the Russia scandal became an excuse to crack down on dissent

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Nicolas Maduro; Henri Falcon (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Never mind democracy: U.S. media and politicians openly long for a coup in Venezuela

Alan MacLeod