Politico relays outrage that the president ‘overrode’ his generals on Afghanistan
The military doesn’t make US foreign policy decisions and there’s a reason for that.
The military doesn’t make US foreign policy decisions and there’s a reason for that.
Media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, U.S. actions abroad.
Recent events in central Asia and western Africa have had a major impact on world power geopolitics.
A prominent NYT journalist got called out for sloppy reporting on Iran’s nuclear program; but the offenses go far beyond the paper of record.
We learned this week that Trump asked for plans to bomb Iran, but the full scope of the issue went largely unaddressed.
Reporters are fascinated by a weapon that purportedly results in fewer instances of collateral damage, but its existence as a byproduct of endless war is often overlooked.
Chris Kitze helped get NBC online and pumped out some birther conspiracies and UFO hoo-hah. Then he joined The Epoch Times, one of the loudest voices in the pro-Trump mediasphere.
Out of context whispers of intelligence are like catnip to reporters and sometimes high ranking military officials weaponize it to advance their preferred policy positions.
The word “historic” gets tossed around to describe carefully scripted performances, “pseudo-events,” that we choose to treat as the stuff of history.
The New York Times published an op-ed by FDD staffer Richard Goldberg and didn’t bother to tell anyone that FDD paid him a salary while working for Trump’s National Security Council.