Gregory Shupak
Gregory Shupak teaches media studies at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto. His book, The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media, is published by OR Books.
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Views Sunday, March 08, 2020 Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism When 60 Minutes ( 2/24/20) asked Sen. Bernie Sanders about his past support for aspects of Cuba's socialist revolution, as well as for Nicaragua's 1979–90 leftist Sandinista government, Sanders responded by saying he opposes what he described as the "authoritarian" features of the Cuban government... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 21, 2020 The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere. Conversely, corporate media coverage suggests that any... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 05, 2020 Trump Order Aimed at Palestine Solidarity, Not Anti-Semitism President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month to deny funding to post-secondary schools that violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against Jewish people. The order notes that such bigotry is rooted in antisemitism, and says that it will determine whether... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 19, 2019 Media Alarmed by Imaginary US Pullout From Syria President Donald Trump’s modification of the US’s Syria policy has generated a torrent of confusion, so it’s worth reviewing the record. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham announced on October 6: Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria . The... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 10, 2019 The New York Times' Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran The New York Times has published five editorials since the beginning of May that are ostensibly critical of a possible military war between the United States and Iran. As anti-war arguments, however, they are woefully lacking—vilifying Iran without subjecting the US to comparable scrutiny, and... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 07, 2019 In Media’s Looking Glass, US Doesn’t Threaten Iran But Merely Responds to Iranian Threats US leaders have been threatening Iran for years, but US corporate media persistently and wrongly paint US escalations against Iran as defensive countermeasures. George W. Bush said in 2008 that “all options are on the table” in terms of the policies the US will consider toward Iran, which was a way... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 12, 2019 Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela Coverage Writing of the failed US-sponsored coup attempt in Venezuela on April 30, Uri Friedman of The Atlantic ( 5/1/19 ) referred to the Venezuelan branch of the coup as Juan “Guaidó’s pro-democracy movement.” The logical contradiction could scarcely be more pronounced: A wave of Friedman’s wand... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 21, 2019 US Media Erase Years of Chavismo’s Gains Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, which took off with the election of President Hugo Chávez in December 1998, frequently and even quite recently received praise for its social gains from the United Nations, international humanitarian organizations and economists. This aspect of the country’s story... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 06, 2019 US Media Ignore—and Applaud—Economic War on Venezuela The US media chorus supporting a US overthrow of the Venezuelan government has for years pointed to the country’s economic crisis as a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US has strangled the Venezuelan economy ( FAIR.org , 3/22/18 ). Sister Eugenia Russian,... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 12, 2019 Media Worried US Won't Occupy Syria Forever In December, President Donald Trump said that he planned to withdraw the U.S. troops from Syria, which number between 2,000 and 4,000 . Trump's claim was widely condemned in corporate media, demonstrating the commentariat's shared belief in American benevolence toward other peoples, in Washington's... Read more |