Common Dreams:
"Historic Day: Jubilation as Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia One Year After Military Coup. Twelve months after being driven into exile by right-wing forces, socialist former president Evo Morales was 'received by the very social movements who defeated the coup and restored democracy.' ...
Morales' return comes one year after the former president of the Latin American country was forced into exile by a violent far-right regime that was installed via a military coup, which was facilitated by unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud made by the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States (OAS) and condoned by corporate media outlets.
-->The NYT was in favor of the coup that overthrew Morales last year. This year upon his return, our "newspaper of record" is still spinning its own version of the facts. In the NYT coverage of his return, we read, "Morales, made a triumphant return to his homeland Monday, a year after his failed attempt to keep power tore the nation apart and sent him into exile." In other words, it was Morales' fault for trying to "keep power" after he was elected president. And he even sent himself into exile. No mention of the US support for this coup and the OAS lies about about electoral fraud. The NYT is the empire's newspaper.
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FAIR:
"Joe Biden hadn’t even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, began pointing fingers at the left—with corporate media giving them a major assist.
Democrats had been hoping for big wins on election night, with the possibility of winning not only the presidency but also the Senate, and increasing their majority in the House. But while Biden has come out on top, the party’s most optimistic outcome in the Senate would be a 50/50 split (if they win both Georgia runoff seats), giving them a majority with the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. And rather than gaining in the House, Democrats lost several seats.
In the wake of these disappointments, the right wing of the party immediately blamed its left wing for the poor showing, airing their grievances in a private conference call among House Democrats that was leaked to reporters."
https://fair.org/home/when-centrists-lose-corporate-media-blame-the-left/
-->FAIR does a nice job in demonstrating how the NYT and the major US media comes down in favor of the "corporate" way for Democrats to proceed. There are some juicy details here as well. South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn "has taken more money from the pharmaceutical industry in the past decade than any other member of the House or Senate." Who knew? Certainly not the readers of the NYT.
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The Guardian UK:
"The recent HBO film 537 Votes, about the Florida 2000 election mess, offers one overarching message: Democrats’ refusal to sound a clear alarm about the slow-motion heist in process ultimately let the election be stolen.
In that debacle, Democrats seemed to think things would break their way with well-honed arguments inside the cloistered confines of the legal system – they never understood how public-facing politics can play a role in what ended up being a pivotal political brawl outside the courtroom.
Now, 20 years later, the lesson of that debacle isn’t being heeded. Donald Trump and his cronies are quite clearly waging a public-facing campaign designed to create the conditions to pull off a coup in the electoral college process. This is a full-scale emergency – and yet the Democratic strategy seems to be to try to pretend it isn’t happening, in hopes that norms win out, even though nothing at all is normal."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/12/trump-election-concede-republicans-democrats
-->The US media, including the NYT, doesn't like to expose the dangerous fascist tendencies of our current administration. Like the 2000 election theft, our media pretends that all is in order, when it is clearly not. What good is exposing the lies of the Trump regime when you can't put a name on what is really happening? This is fascism, folks.
