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Ben Norton is a freelance writer and journalist. His work has been featured in Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, CounterPunch, Truthout, ThinkProgress, and ZNet, among other publications. His website is BenNorton.com. Follow him at twitter.com/BenjaminNorton.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 12, 2020 US Govt Troll Farm Exposed
US govt & Democrat-tied troll farm boosts Bolivian coup regime, meddles in Mexico, Venezuela:
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with The Grayzone's Ben Norton about US troll farm CLS Strategies that boosted Bolivia's coup regime and sought to destabilize leftist Venezuelan and Mexican governments.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 10, 2020 Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS
The main source for the hit New York Times podcast Caliphate lied about serving as an ISIS executioner. It's just the latest in a series of fake national security-related stories published by the US newspaper of record. By Ben Norton
The top US newspaper has been exposed for overseeing another large-scale fake news operation.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, October 25, 2019 US Troops Staying in Syria to "Keep the Oil" Have Already Killed Hundreds
Hundreds of American soldiers are remaining in Syria, not to ensure to safety of any group of people, but to occupy the country's oil reserves and block the Syrian government from revenue needed for reconstruction, reports Ben Norton.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, May 11, 2015 How the Media Helps ISIS Spread its Propaganda
The central idea in ISIS' propaganda strategy is to make itself look like a huge, omnipresent global threat when it is in fact relatively small and isolated. The corporate media, whether wittingly or not, helps it to do this.
SHARE Sunday, December 7, 2014 Indict the System
In the past few months, a multitude of murders of unarmed black men at the hands of white police, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and many more. Until attempts are made not just to indict racist police officers, but to indict the system itself--what bell hook refers to as imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy--it will, in the words of Malcolm X, continue turning victims into attackers and "democracy" into hypocrisy.
SHARE Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Chances Are the FBI Has Files on Your Favorite Human Rights Activist
The human rights heroes we admire today were the surveilled villains of yesteryear. The real dregs of human history are not those who illegally opposed systems of oppression, but rather those who allowed such egregious systems to continue unchallenged.
For oppressed groups, the police state has been a part of The American Experience - from the day this country was founded."
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, October 13, 2014 The (Socialist) Malala Yousafzai the US Media Doesn't Quote
Now that Malala Yousafzai has won her hard-earned and well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize, she and her amazing, tragic story is back in the spotlight. Per usual, nevertheless, the corporate media has taken this positive development and exploited it, in the service of US imperialism.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 8, 2013 How Ahistorical Journalism Serves Power
Contemporary journalism has a horrendous habit of considering history superfluous. If an event happened more than two--maybe three, if you're lucky--decades ago, it's impertinent. We just want the "facts," and we want them now. No nuance, no complexity, and, Ford forbid, please no ambiguity. Ahistorical "journalism" is the norm; historical framing is abnormal.