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Gregory Shupak

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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Beware the Hawkish Pundits Pushing for War Over Ukraine

Readers seeking riotous calls to violence in Eastern Europe should turn to the Times and the Post, but those who are interested in a thoroughgoing portrait will be disappointed.

Gregory Shupak ·

Chinese President Xi Jinping and then–Vice President Joe Biden shake hands.

US Corporate Media Fixin for a Cold War Fight With China

Inflaming tensions like these has a very long and bloody history.

Gregory Shupak ·

A Palestinian child carries his cat after he and his family members survived the violent Israeli bombing of their homes in Gaza City, on May 16, 2021. (Photo: Momen Faiz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Media Coverage of Israel/Palestine Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier

The fatal flaw in the "both sides" narrative is that only the Israeli side has ethnically cleansed and turned millions on the Palestinians' side into refugees by preventing them from exercising their right to return to their homes.

Gregory Shupak ·

Children with a container of drinking water in a street in the city of Tadmur, near Palmyra during the Syrian civil war. (Photo by Andrei Gryaznov\TASS via Getty Images)

Media Conceal—or Celebrate—Depriving Syrians of Food and Medicine

US media coverage has endorsed, downplayed or ignored the harm the sanctions will inflict on Syria’s civilian population, and the misery years of previous sanctions have already inflicted.

Gregory Shupak ·

Corporate media distortions and bombast are priming the American public to see China as a treacherous villain that has to be forcefully confronted, perhaps with violence.

Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War With China

The idea that China is a threat to Americans' security is baseless.

Gregory Shupak ·

Since Covid-19 has been tearing through Iran, the US state has not eased up its assault. (Photo: Medea Benjamin)

As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way

The best way to comprehensively remedy the inordinate harm the Iran sanctions do, it seems, would be to lift the sanctions, but few in the corporate media are making this rather obvious point.

Gregory Shupak ·

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Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism

A far more urgent task for reporters covering the U.S. election cycle would be asking candidates how they plan to combat U.S. authoritarianism at home and abroad, and questioning why the accomplishments of Latin American socialism aren't possible in the United States.

Gregory Shupak ·

Presenting Iran as the reason for attacks on US forces in Iraq also implies that Iraqis had little objection to the US invasion, legitimizing the US’s ongoing military presence in the country. (Photo: DVIDSHUB/flickr/cc)

The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence

In the imperial imagination, the US has the right to violently pursue its objectives wherever it wants, and any resistance is illegitimate.

Gregory Shupak ·

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