February 11, 2021
By Eric ZUESSE
An article by the Moon of Alabama (MoA) blogger, on February 5th, decimated the credibility of two American newspapers in just that one shot. It was aptly headlined “New York Times Editors Lie, Obfuscate Facts, To Reinforce Their False Russia Narrative”. The following commentary will presume the reader has already read it, because this is a commentary upon his commentary, which was a brilliant (though I shall also note, imperfect) analysis. So, that article should be read first, because the following builds upon it.
New York Times and
Washington Post? None. Is that because American audiences wouldn’t be interested in seeing and hearing that conversation between a Russian politician’s right-hand man and a person he thought represented MI6? (After all, Navalny is all over America’s ‘news’-media these days.) Or is it instead because America’s major ‘news’-media are still propagandists for the U.S. Government, against what
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Dambisa Moyo
A lot has been said about the possible alphabet soup of economic recovery shapes post-COVID-19: L, U, V, W, for example.
However, relatively little attention has been paid to the threat of a K-shaped recovery one which would exacerbate inequality in the post-pandemic period and, in particular, how the private sector can help combat this trend.
The pandemic has already worsened inequality in a number of stark ways.
The Trust Imperative
Almost anyone with an email account has heard from a Nigerian prince offering them millions to help them transfer some money.
And we’ve all heard stories of people often friends or loved ones falling for a phone scammer pretending to be a government agent asking for money or identity information.
And then there is the internet itself, the Wild West of deception where ads popping up in social media feeds and on legitimate websites promise deals on items that turn out to have been too good to be true.
We live in an era of dishonesty, when politicians let us down so often we take it for granted and companies promise their products will change our lives, which they never do. Those fast food burgers look nothing like the picture on the menu and even our egg cartons lie to us, showing happy chickens in open fields when the reality is closer to a concentration camp.
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