MEDIA

FAIR: Watch The Mainstream Media’s Big 3 Blunders This Week  Corporate media won’t tell you why we really don’t have a surgeon general By Peter Hart
 
FOREIGN POLICY
 
 
 
Why American Exceptionalism Is Inherently Immoral  The country is not a child and we shouldn’t have unconditional love for it
 
 
 
CIVIL LIBERTIES
The Methodical Media Framing of Michael Brown so the Shooter Can Inevitably Go Free  “Thug” is a contemporary and more polite version of the ugly N-word
Racism as Government Policy A Short History of “Black Paranoia”
 
Snowden Vindicated—’Citizenfour’ Documentary Untangles the NSA Leak Saga  Laura Poitras unpacks a historic intel controversy
 
 
 
POLITICS
Neo-Liberals be Damned Let the Democrats Rot
Did Elizabeth Warren Just Open the Door to a White House Run? After months of insisting that a 2016 bid is off the table, the Massachusetts senator sounds a different note
 
 
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