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7. I include, e.g.,
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:12 PM
Jan 2025

Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Lee Fang, John Pilger, Robert Parry, and Seymour Hersh, among others.

Greenwald gets more vehement than I'd like, but as a Constitutional lawyer, he's excellent on many of the legal issues I care about. I also appreciate his critical assistance in helping Edward Snowden and getting his revelations published.

Hedges, as the former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times, fluent in Arabic and otherwise deeply knowledgeable about the region (among his many other impressive accomplishments) is great on most of the conflicts involving Middle Eastern countries.

Matt Taibbi, again among his many other accomplishments, was the ONLY journalist who went to the trouble of really digging into and clearly explaining the causes of the Great Financial Crash of 2008 (no, it wasn't primarily the bad mortgages, as most of the media was content to repeat; it was the credit derivatives sold by AIG et al. to Goldman Sachs et al.)

Etc. If you look them all up, you may or may not agree with every word they say, but imho the depth of their research and insight and their record for accuracy is substantially better than anything coming out of either the so-called right- or so-called left-leaning MSM (which, after all, are not only much more concerned with profits but are owned and controlled by oligarchs or megacorps with their own agendas).

(I started following political news during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, and it took a long time for me to become as skeptical of the MSM as I now am. But I've come to realize not only how inaccurate much of the MSM is, but also that in many cases, the most important issues are not those that "left" and "right" media most loudly disagree on, but rather the ones they scarcely mention at all.)

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