Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a New York-based journalist, a contributing analyst for FAIR.org, and co-host of the Citations Needed podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @adamjohnsonnyc
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Views Wednesday, March 20, 2019 Bloomberg’s Armsmaker-Funded Columnist Wants You to Know: Military Spending Is Woke You may not know it, but bloated Pentagon budgets are actually “progressive.” Or so says a recent opinion piece in Bloomberg News ( 3/17/19 ) , “Progressives Should Learn to Love the Pentagon Budget,” by Hal Brands. Bloomberg identifies Brands as the “Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 27, 2019 The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend It’s a trope that dates back more than a decade, but the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has seen a recent surge in the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend (IRPF), a specific genre of concern-trolling where a long-time Republican operative, politician or pundit offers... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 22, 2019 The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It No one actually thinks the same Donald Trump who kicked off his run for the White House by calling Mexicans rapists, and subsequently, as president, left Puerto Rico for dead after Hurricane Maria, cares at all about the Venezuelan poor. No one actually thinks the murderers row of Cold Warriors—led... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 13, 2019 MSNBC’s ‘Resistance’ to Trump’s Venezuela Coup Ranges from Silence to Support After much behind the scenes angling and plotting, the Trump administration is now waging an overt campaign to overthrow the government of Venezuela— coordinating directly with the Venezuelan military, lobbying other countries to support the opposition government-in-waiting, threatening a military... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 10, 2019 Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt The Trump administration’s now completely overt effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had a very successful public relations effort this week, as major Western media outlets uniformly echoed its simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America On Friday, The New York Times continued its long, predictable tradition of backing U.S. coups in Latin America by publishing an editorial praising Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This will be the 10th such coup the paper has backed since the creation of the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 25, 2018 NPR Infomercial for Its Sponsor Amazon Omits Labor and Environmental Criticisms There are dozens of reports detailing how Amazon ’s shipping policies negatively effects both the environment and workers , but one wouldn’t have any idea either was a concern after listening to NPR ’s sexed-up report ( Morning Edition , 11/21/18 ), “Optimized Prime: How AI and Anticipation Power... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Blaming Saudis for Corrupting Otherwise Human Rights–Loving US As FAIR has noted for years, one of the primary ideological functions of US corporate media is to maintain the mythology that the US is a noble protector of democracy and arbiter of human rights. When material facts—like wars of aggression, massive spying regimes, the funding and arming right-wing... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Action Alert: It's Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen As FAIR has noted before ( 1/8/18, 3/20/18 ), to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the US and its Gulf Monarchy allies are leveling against the poorest country in the Arab world is simply a non-issue. On July 2, a year had passed since the cable network’s last segment mentioning US participation... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 09, 2018 Media Treat Trump Administration's Partisan Fear-Mongering as Objective 'Government' Report On Tuesday, dozens of media outlets broke what at first seemed to be a major story about “the government” announcing that Social Security and Medicare will be broke in less than 20 years: Medicare Will Become Insolvent in 2026, US Government Says ( AP , 6/5/18 ) Medicare’s Trust Fund Will Be... Read more |