This vote – which passed with 97 percent support – gives the union “maximum leverage to win demands at the bargaining table,” according to the union’s statement. As the Teamsters continue to negotiate for a better deal with UPS, the membership has voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike. Khan added “These manipulative tactics harm consumers and law-abiding businesses alike.” According to internal documents “Amazon named process ‘Iliad,’…refer to Homer’s epic about the long, arduous Trojan War.” More about this lawsuit is available at the Washington Post.Ģ. On Wednesday, The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the online retailer “tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money,” according to FTC Chair Lina Khan. They could just as well do it today against another country.ġ. What is clearly probably its darkest journalistic chapter… There doesn’t seem to be anything learned today. And here’s the New York Times, being fed by one of their reporters Judith Miller total lies about Saddam importing uranium from Niger and Africa and other falsehoods that made page one in the New York Times. This was a real sociocide-thousands and thousands of bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq. It’s only a problem when Americans are dying. And part of that is the jingoism and the nationalism and the racism that says if the people at the other end of US firepower don’t look like us, are not in a country aligned with us, then we don’t think there’s really a reason to consider it a major problem. That “there’s nothing to see here, folks!” Because we say so.
These wars are treated as though they aren’t wars. If a journalist or a media outlet is in favor of the US engaging in war, that is couched as “objective.” If a journalist (such as Phil Donahue on MSNBC) in the leadup to the war even raises questions, serious questions critical of an impending invasion or ongoing US war then that's considered “biased.” The tacit motto of huge media outlets like the New York Times is: Being pro-war means never having to say you’re sorry. He is the author of War Made Easy, Made Love, Got War, and his newest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
Norman Solomon is co-founder of and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Ralph spends the entire hour with co-founder of and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Solomon, to discuss his latest book, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine,” which examines how our “military-industrial-media-intelligence complex” conspires to suppress the truth about war.
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