Posts Tagged ‘sides’

Video: MSNBC Reporter Says It’s “Deeply Dangerous” To Cover “Both Sides” Of A Story

MSNBC reporter Mehdi Hasan declared Wednesday that it is “deeply dangerous” for a news network to cover “both sides” of any story. “There are two words we need to remove from our media vocabulary right now and that is ‘both sides,’” Hasan said during an interview with former New York Times reporter Ben Smith. Hasan continued, […]

Four sides benefit from unstable Iraq

TEHRAN- When the residents of Baghdad and Basra saw an all too familiar site last week, wiser heads prevailed and the scenes of violence in two of Iraq’s largest cities gave way to peace.  Everyone knows very well how insecurity can take center stage and then sweep across the nation. Over the past three decades […]

How Jewish Billionaires Control Both Sides Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ‘Debate’

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency) As the Jewish mass murderer and communist “revolutionary” once advised, “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves” — and that strategy appears to be exactly what is going on between “conservative” and “liberal” pro-Israel advocacy groups: Pro-Israel PACs reported millions of dollars in donations in August, including […]

Substantial progress made in Vienna; sides focusing on Safeguards

TEHRAN – In the third day of talks in Vienna intended to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran’s chief negotiator held talks with European Union’s Enrique Mora, who acts as a coordinator. Source Views: 0

Nancy Pelosi Threatens to Block Brexit Trade Deal, Sides with EU on Northern Ireland

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has threatened to block a free trade deal with Britain should the UK scrap some sections of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a controversial section of the Brexit agreement that has empowered the European Union to effectively divide the United Kingdom. Views: 0

Meet “Solutions Not Sides,” the Israel lobby group infiltrating British schools

Last month British actor-turned-Twitter-troll Tracy-Ann Oberman ate humble pie. She apologised for libelling academic and activist Philip Proudfoot and was forced to pay out large sums of money in the legal settlement.

Why Turkey is Playing on All Sides in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Ever since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine last month, Turkey has been seeking to project itself as a key mediator between Russia and Ukraine. As it stands, it has even achieved some success as far as its role in facilitating mediation is concerned. This role – and the success it has […]

Three Sides to Every Story Identifying the Official Counter Narrative-Max Igan

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How union drives in Mexico help workers on both sides of the border

Image Credit: Caesar Rodriguez/New York Times This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute. What Tom O’Shei remembers most about his visit to Mexico in 2019 is the determination he glimpsed in the hundreds of Mexican workers who paraded through the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas and stopped to pray at a monument honoring […]

Trump-appointed judge sides with cops who brutalized DAPL protesters

Photo Credit: Rob Wilson, Bold Alliance Five years after police brutalized activists opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump has dismissed a lawsuit accusing North Dakota law enforcement officers of excessive use of force—a decision that critics have characterized as a tacit endorsement of the violent repression […]

Donna Edwards: Not ‘Fair’ Media Respects Both Sides When GOP Is Destroying Democracy

Former Rep. Donna Edwards (D- MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that it was not “fair” that the media acts like there are two equal sides when covering politics because Republicans were destroying democracy and favoring “authoritarianism.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I want to make clear as someone who worked  at the highest levels of the […]

The Sinister and Ugly Sides of Fashion Shows

Commentary A friend of mine sent me pictures of a famous fashion house’s latest collection for men. I believed that they were for men, for my friend would not deliberately have misled me, but the models on which the clothes were shown looked to me very like severely anorexic women. It was as if they […]

SFSU President sides with tech giants on silencing of Palestinian voices

Editor’s Note: The following press release was issued on November 4, 2021 by the International Campaign to Defend Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. The press release comes as San Francisco State President Lynn Mahoney overturned the decision of a campus panel that ruled the school failed to protect Professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa from censorship when […]

Hungary’s Orban sides with Poland, rejects EU law primacy ahead of bloc’s summit over LGBTQ

Home » Europe, Politics, Wars / Conflicts » Hungary’s Orban sides with Poland, rejects EU law primacy ahead of bloc’s summit over LGBTQ     Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has once again challenged the idea of the primacy of EU law, accusing Brussels of attempts to infringe upon the rights of the national governments […]

Two centenaries on both sides of the Himalayas

Together the two, on both sides of the Himalayas, is a vast mass of land with almost half of the world population, huge resources, wide varieties of ecologies, agro-ecological and climate zones, and rich with by-gone civilizations fossilized in history. Mountain ranges stand high between them. But the uniformity that once put them on the […]

L.A. Chamber of Commerce Sides with Democrats on Gavin Newsom Recall

The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday the passage of a resolution to oppose the recall against California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, ultimately siding with the Democrats on the effort. The chamber, which says they serve more than 244,000 businesses in the L.A. country, released a statement following the passage of their resolution saying they oppose […]

Rightwing smears and ‘both sides’ lies

When covering the excesses of the far right, it’s common for cable news pundits to lump them together with what they usually call the ‘radical’ or ‘hard’ left, arguing that these are issues ‘both sides’ need to deal with. Those most often compared to armed groups of ‘patriots’ like the Oathkeepers, who have members accused of […]

Supreme court sides with giant corporations Nestle and Cargill saying they cannot be sued in child-labor case

Yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed a lower-court ruling in favor of corporate giants Nestlé USA and Cargill, leaving human rights advocates furious.  Over a decade ago, six men had attempted to sue Nestlé USA and Cargill over claims they were trafficked as child slaves to farms in the West African nation of Ivory Coast that […]

Biden Administration Sides With Florida in Seeking to Dismiss Canadian Drug Import Lawsuit

The Biden administration has filed a motion in federal court seeking to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a pharmaceutical lobby group against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that aims to block prescription drug imports from Canada. With the motion to dismiss, the Biden administration is essentially siding with Florida and New Mexico, the […]

Judge Sides with Atheist Group, Strikes Down Pre-Court Prayer as Unconstitutional

(Christian Headlines) — A Texas judge’s practice of opening his court sessions in chaplain-led prayer violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on government establishment of religion, a federal district court ruled Friday. Judge Wayne Mack, a justice of the peace in Montgomery County, Texas, created a chaplaincy program in 2014 allowing volunteer chaplains to “assist the […]

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