Aside from anti-vax disinformation, America's Frontline Doctors also sells prescriptions for Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and other COVID-19 "medications." But one of their "prescribers" has no license in any state.
When producers, writers, camera and sound people put together a message, it is not news. It is editorial at best but it's usually just a cleverly edited advertisement. You are watching sales personnel.
The removal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 opened the flood gates of "hate" broadcasting. The advent of the Internet and the ability to "broadcast" over the net added a mob of crackpots spouting all manner of insanity for profit.
If we want the International Criminal Court to investigate Putin and Russia's crimes against humanity, we need to set an example by joining the court ourselves.
In the past, two Republican governors pulled off publicity stunts for their base, attacking Disney and strangling trade at the Texas border, showing that Republican principles don't really mean much in an election year.
This Sunday Marine Le Pen will again try to win the presidency of France and perform the same service to Russia as Donald Trump did during his tenure in the U.S.
The invasion of Ukraine by Putin shows what happens when one party and then one man gains control of a country. And Republicans want that kind of control here.
There are many differences between the rich and the rest of us, but one of the most consequential for your taxes is whether most of your income comes from wages.
Governments have been paying hidden subsidies the fossil-fuel industries even as they push poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Focusing on the reasons is what individuals who have committed a crime want you, us, to do. "Look over there!" "I HAD to!" "They did it first!" Motivations, Justifications. Pity party.
The indelible lesson that Trump taught the world is that audacious and unrepentant lies are tools that he and people like him will never fail to use to undermine Democracy.
Republican members of Congress who were involved in the January 6th insurrection are whipping up loads of distractions to divert attention from the question, "Why are they still in office and not in jail?"
Just as non-existent election fraud has been used to pass voter suppression laws, Republicans are using their fear of critical race theory as an excuse to ban the teaching of the history of racial suppression and enslavement.