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 Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Media Conceal—or Celebrate—Depriving Syrians of Food and Medicine Late last month, the latest round of United States sanctions, known as the Caesar Act, took effect against Syria, a country already in a dire situation after nine years of war and sanctions. Covid-19 and an economic crisis in Lebanon, a financial lifeline for Syrian civilians that the US has... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 17, 2020 Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War With China Corporate media are laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check. The Washington Post ( 4/23/20 ) ran an article by Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, the second sentence of which said, "The Covid-19 pandemic has... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 10, 2020 As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way Covid-19 has hammered few countries as hard as it has hit Iran, which reports (as of April 8 ) 64,586 cases and 3,993 deaths. US sanctions are a major reason that Iranians are getting infected with and dying from the coronavirus in such large numbers: The US’s economic warfare softened Iran up for... Read more |
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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 |