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Media critic and former economist P. Greanville is The Greanville Post's founding editor (http://www.greanvillepost.com/).
He also serves as publisher for Cyrano's Journal Today. He has a lifelong interest in the triumph of justice and compassion, which makes him an enemy of all forms of animal abuse and exploitation, and a passionate defender of authentic democracy, which puts him outside the sphere of "corporate life." He considers such exile an acceptable price.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 20, 2016 Policy Matters: The Drug War Must (and It Can) End
The decades-old "drug war" inaugurated under Richard Nixon has been a complete and utter social calamity. Originally riding a blunt conservative backlash against the 1960s "permissive hippie culture," it has ruined millions of lives, injected a pretext for the massive incarceration of minorities and people of limited economic means (thereby creating a thriving prison industry).
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 30, 2015 The legalised murder of Cecil the Lion
The murder of Cecil the Lion by an American dentist who fancies himself a big trophy hunter has provoked a justifiable storm of revulsion and condemnation. But there's more to this issue than just that.
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 23, 2015 "Russian aggression"--CBS provides a perfect example of imperial disinformation
The American disinformation machine has been working double shift for some time now to demonize Russia, but the threat of war comes from NATO and its Frankenstein, Ukraine, and Washington's constant warmongering against Russia right on her doorstep.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, February 16, 2015 Bill Maher's flaccid denunciation of corporate news
Bill Maher's satire and criticism of Brian Williams and network news quickly dissolves into superficial commentary, ignoring the real crimes of the corporate media as shills for the empire.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 25, 2015 Et Tu, Frontline?
Frontline joins the pack of anti-Russian demonizers with this transparently dishonest piece of journalism that far from presenting a reliable portrait of President Putin injects the viewer with a multitude of prejudices guaranteeing his or her condemnation of the Russian leader.