Have you heard ANYTHING about our federal gov blocking private charities from helping? The problem is getting the aid to the needy, since Assad is not cooperating.
That’s always been a problem. Keeping the aid out of the hands of the third world dictator.
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PolitiFact if frequently brazenly biased. Here is an example.
It claimed that a pro-Trump ad was “mostly false” even though it included video clips of Biden saying he would raise taxes. They said that they quotes were out of context and may have exaggerated the number of people affected. That sounds like “mostly true” in my book.
On the other hand, they mysteriously deleted the “truth-o-meter” from the fine-people hoax and just told people to look at the transcript even though Trump immediately clarified his remarks. They know that if their meter would be “false” if they were truthful, but the lie was the center of the Biden campaign, so they deleted the meter.
Zerohedge was permanently banned from Twitter for truthfully reporting evidence of a lab leak as the source of the COVID virus. Zerohedge was eventually reinstated, and Politifact had to withdraw their fact check when it became clear that there was good evidence to support the lab-leak scenario.
Luckily, I didn’t cite Politifact.
Okay, my bad.
Media fact-checkers usually follow the same formula. I will see what I can find on
Just take a look at the info on ZH. It’s a BLOG, based in Bulgaria, where all the bloggers use a pseudonym. They’re anti US and pro- Putin. If you want to buy into that stuff, fine- but why quote them like it’s reliable news?
And the lawyer website? They’re lawyers who try to circumvent gov sanctions of other governments. We should trust them?
Mediafactcheck is a blog as well. They seem to be okay at ratings for right-left bias.
As far as Zerohedge, yes, they are based in Bulgaria. If they were based in the US, they would be censored like other US media.
Realize that anything that goes against the official narrative from Washington is labeled “Russian disinformation”. That was true for the Biden laptop story, even though the 50+ former intel officials admitted they had only evidence-free suspicions.
Lol you think Bulgaria has a free press? It’s propaganda.
I would not trust Zerohedge for news about Bulgaria.
US corporate media is clearly under the thumb of the government.
US Bad. Russia good.
No more, please. It’s making me ill.
Here is the rating for the New York Times.
It took a year and a half for the Times to admit that the laptop story is authentic. Yet the Times “factual content” is rated “high”.
Factual Reporting: HIGH = a score of 1 – 2, which means the source is almost always factual, sources from mostly credible low biased or high factual information and makes immediate corrections to incorrect information. . .
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/
The Times spent years pushing the Russia collusion hoax. The Columbia Journalism Review analyzed their reporting and found multiple examples of gross bias and inaccuracies in their reporting. Here are some examples:
“In January 2018, for example, The New York Times ignored a publicly available document showing that the FBI’s lead investigator didn’t think, after ten months of inquiry into possible Trump-Russia ties, that there was much there,” Mr. Gerth reported. “This omission disserved Times readers. The paper says its reporting was thorough and ‘in line with our editorial standards.’”
“A few reporters admitted that to me, but, of course, only anonymously,” Mr. Gerth reported. “Here’s how it works. First, a federal agency like the CIA or FBI secretly briefs Congress. Then Democrats or Republicans selectively leak snippets. Finally, the story comes out, using vague attribution.”
Former FBI spokesman Mike Kortan told Mr. Gerth, “It was a problem for us. We would brief Congress, try and give them a full picture with the negative stuff, and then a member of Congress can cherry-pick the information and the reporter doesn’t know they’ve been cherry-picked.”
“The typical reader or viewer is clueless,” the CJR report concluded.
The Times reporting may be high accuracy about stories that have no political impact, but they have demonstrated extreme bias and low accuracy about stories of political importance.
The fact that Media Bias/Fact Check continues to claim high accuracy for the New York Times demonstrates it has similarly low credibility.
Is it a good thing that the US sanctions are preventing humanitarian aid from reaching Syria?
The sanctions are there for a reason. Assad is a monster. Please NEVER quote Greenwald to me, and I also think your avatar choice is poor. So long.
That’s bad.
We still have people who are homeless or living in tents or their back porches after Ian. These are people who paid FEMA for flood insurance. Guess what FEMA says? “Geeze, sorry. We can’t get you a trailer because you live in a flood zone”.
Seems like we have all of the money in the world except when it comes to our citizens.
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The sanctions are just hurting the Syrian people at this point.
They could stop the war… Anyone know why we are in Syria? Before we intervened it was a great place compared to the rest of the middle east. Large Christian population.
Lot’s of University doing archaeology etc… Now it’s chaos.
They could stop the war… Anyone know why we are in Syria?
That is a good question. Recent Russian-brokered meetings between Syrian and Turkish officials are showing that major players are aligning for a peaceful solution to end the war. The US is left out.
Turkey, Russia and the United Arab Emirates are redoubling efforts to rehabilitate Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, and shape the decade-long war in his country to the detriment of US-backed forces.
Turkey, which backed the 2011 rebellion against Assad, is now prepared to publicly recognize his rule over Syria and work to rebuild diplomatic, security and trade ties, people briefed on the Turkish position said.
MSN
I suspect that Trump’s frank words about taking Syria’s oil may have been a subtle way of saying that the DOD and other agencies were going to be there whether he wanted them to be or not. His comments came after a long history of clandestine operations to create civil war and regime change in Syria.
From what I see, the US has been a constitutional republic in name only for many years when it comes to US foreign policy. The sadistic sanctions policy against the Syrian people is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
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That’s the thing with globalization a UN sort of look at everything. What’s happening in your backyard is no more important than what is happening in Syria/Turkey. It’s a doomed philosophy and the antithesis of what the democratic party use to be when it was considered the party of the working man.
404 | ZeroHedge policy is clear. The American administration … will not normalize relations with Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and we do not support other countries’ move [to do so] unless there is real movement towards a political solution under UN Security Council Resolution 2254.”
This statement comes in the aftermath of the OPCW releasing its third report on the alleged chemical attack in Douma in 2018, which was put out as the US has been attempting in any way it can to obstruct a potential reconciliation of ties between Syria and Turkey, which was in the works under Russian auspices before the massive earthquake ravaged both countries.
Still don’t think this is Russian propaganda?
