How The Establishment Media Imposes ‘Truth’

A new “press freedom” paradigm has taken hold in the Western world, imposing establishment narratives as “truth” and dismissing contrarian analyses as “fake news,” a break from the Enlightenment’s “marketplace of ideas.”

Gilbert Doctorow
作者 Gilbert Doctorow
NBC’s Megyn Kelly interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 2, 2017. (NBC Photo)

For the last quarter century or more, Western foreign policy has claimed to be guided by the promotion of “democratic values,” among which none shines brighter than freedom of speech and the related freedom of the press. European Union institutions have repeatedly been quick to denounce authoritarian regimes in the greater European area for arrests

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Harvard Embattled As Students, Faculty, & Alumni Join Forces For Divestment

‘Unless and until institutions like Harvard act to stigmatize the root causes of global warming, we will remain addicted to a system of energy production and economic injustice that guarantees catastrophe.’

Jon Queally
作者 Jon Queally
Harvard

The suit charges that the Harvard Corporation is breaching its duties under its charter by investing in fossil fuel companies.  Photo: Harvard Climate Justice Coalition The administration of one of the world's most elite higher education institutions has called the intensified tactics of its students a form of "coercive" protest and lawyers

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Harvard University And UNC Chapel Hill Being Sued Over Affirmative Action Policies

The suite claims that affirmative action policies should be banned at colleges across the nation.

Associated Press
作者 Associated Press
Harvard

BOSTON  — Lawsuits filed Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argue that affirmative action policies should be banned at colleges across the nation. The federal suits allege Harvard and UNC rely on race-based affirmative action policies that impact admissions of high-achieving white and Asian

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WATCH: Harvard Students Say US Bigger Threat To World Peace Than ISIS

“As a western civilization we’re to blame for a lot of the problems that we’re facing now,” one student said. “I don’t think anyone would argue that we didn’t create the problem of ISIS, ourselves.”

MintPress News Desk
作者 MintPress News Desk
U.S. Army Soldiers in the Konar province of Afghanistan. (Photo/U.S. Army by Sgt. Johnny R. Aragon via Flickr)

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College-Success Programs Help Low-Income Students Thrive

It’s a “fundamental injustice,” that low-income children struggle to get to college and is “not fair to those students and is not the right thing for our country.”

Katie Rucke
作者 Katie Rucke

A new study from researchers at Harvard University found that the surest way out of poverty is for a person to obtain a four-year degree. Despite efforts of several college-success organizations to help low-income children enrolled in a four-year accredited college, only 8.3 percent of students from low-income families earn a college degree by the

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Could Larry Summers Lead The US To Another Financial Collapse?

The scandal-ridden former Harvard president — and champion of risky deregulation — is being considered for the Federal Reserve.

Martin Michaels
作者 Martin Michaels

In the ongoing speculation on who will replace Ben Bernanke as the chairperson of the Federal Reserve, it appears to be a two-horse race, with Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, and Janet Yellen, currently second-in-command at the Federal Reserve, vying for the position. The appointment will determine who takes over the

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