"Why won’t US TV news say ‘climate change’? It’s media malpractice not to mention that burning fossil fuels drives extreme weather events like Hurricane Ida. The climate emergency is exploding in various parts of the world this week, but climate silence inexcusably continues to rein in much of the United States media.
Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana without running water, electricity or air conditioning amid a heat index topping 100F. The Caldor fire destroyed hundreds of houses and forced mass evacuations around Lake Tahoe in California. Abroad, vast swaths of Siberia were ablaze while drought-parched Madagascar suffered what a United Nations official called the first famine caused entirely by climate change. ...
The problem is that most viewers won’t make that connection, because most stories don’t contain the words “climate change”. Six of the biggest commercial TV networks in the US – ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC and MSNBC – ran 774 stories about Ida from 27 to 30 August, an analysis by the watchdog group Media Matters found. Only 34 of those stories, barely 4%, mentioned climate change."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/02/us-media-hurricane-ida-climate-change
-->Media malpractice keeps Americans in the dark about fossil fuels. All the news that fits the interests of Big Oil.
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The Guardian UK:
"The FBI’s inadequate response to far-right violence results from a lack of will, not a lack of legal authority. The FBI has used its domestic terrorism authorities to target environmental, animal rights and racial justice activists. Yet the FBI doesn’t even track the number of murders committed by white supremacists each year, much less consistently investigate these crimes as domestic terrorism.
Expanding counterterrorism authorities will not solve this attention deficit. To the contrary, both history and recent events suggest that new laws could become tools in the future for FBI agents to target those seeking to reform systems of structural racism and social inequity rather than those committing racist violence.
The Biden administration has also revived an Obama-era program designed to counter violent extremism (CVE), which relied on widely discredited theories of terrorist radicalization that painted Muslim religious practices and the expression of political grievances as precursors to violence. The Biden administration’s version has been rebranded as the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), but it adopts the same basic model.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/01/9-11-us-far-right
-->Surprise! The FBI sees its role as the suppression of reform efforts in the United States. White supremacist violence, why that's OK. It's as American as Apple Pie. The FBI has always been America's thought police.
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Peace And Planet News:
"As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their 'allies' destroyed.
In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd ... It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise. Foreign journalists in Kabul, reported The New York Times, were surprised to find that 'nearly every Afghan they interviewed said [they were] delighted with the coup.' The Wall Street Journal reported that '150,000 persons … marched to honor the new flag … the participants appeared genuinely enthusiastic.'
For women, the gains had no precedent; by the late 1980s, half the university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants."
https://peaceandplanetnews.org/the-great-game-of-smashing-nations/
-->That's the government that the US tried to overthrow by financing and training Muslim extremists, including Osama Bin laden. It was the US that ushered in the new age of terrorism and invasions in Afghanistan. Writer John Pilger sets us straight, although our country's major media would never carry this story.
