Author: Richard Eskow

Social media has become a big part of the 2016 presidential race. Candidates who would otherwise get no exposure, like Bernie Sanders, have gained huge traction in the race because of social media, reported The Hill. However, will social media become the new corporate media? Facebook allows candidates to zero in on a specific demographic to deliver their message, regardless of how terrible the message is. “Campaigns are designing paid marketing strategies to reach and mobilize all the supporters and voters that they need to win elections,” said Eric Laurence, Facebook’s head of U.S. Industry for Politics and Government....

Pigs are flying because Fox News host Chris Wallace grilled former vice president Dick Cheney about his hawkishness. During the Bush administration, Iran was not an immediate military threat, said Wallace. He called out Cheney on how Iranian centrifuges increased from zero to 5,000 during Bush’s presidency. Cheney tried to put that on President Obama, but Wallace said it happened by 2009. “You and President Bush, the Bush-Cheney administration, dealt with Iran for eight years, and I think it was fair to say that there was never any real, serious military threat,” Wallace noted. “Iran went from zero known...