The Real Founders of Fake News? American Islamophobes
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases entered the language. For the last decade they have been spreading provable […]
Kean U. history scholar: The terrorism we don’t want to talk about | Opinion
By Brian Regal On a commuter train in Portland, Ore., a person began yelling racial and religious epithets at a couple of women he thought were Muslims. When other commuters tried to get him to stop he stabbed three of them — two of them died. The accused attacker, who was captured, was seen giving […]
Bogus Claims About ‘Underreported’ Terror Attacks
I’m out of excuses for the people in the Trump White House, and now things are starting to get really scary. In its relentless effort to delegitimize the press, the Trump administration has issued a long, long list of lies about terrorism attacks that supposedly went underreported. This was designed to back up President Donald […]