One would hope that reports that Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman is torturing women political prisoners would be sufficient to upset the narrative of a "young and brash" reformer.

Sarah Aziza on Saudi Repression of Women, Dean Baker on Taxing the Rich

CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.

The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.

Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country

What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.

Chris Bernadel on Haiti

Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was  whistled past by the press corps.

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal

Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.

Sarah Aziza on Saudi Repression of Women, Dean Baker on Taxing the Rich

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