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> With a sepia hue and the smell of a campfire engulfing the East Coast, the immediate effects of human-caused climate change seemed as concrete as they had ever been. But on US TV news, viewers were more likely to hear climate denial than reporting that made the essential connection between fossil fuel consumption and worsening wildfires—if they heard mention of #ClimateChange at all.

https://fair.org/home/as-skies-turn-orange-media-still-hesitate-to-mention-whats-changing-climate/
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> Petras described Carter as routinely engaging in “a double discourse. One discourse is for the public, which is his moral politics, and the other is the second track that he operates on, which is a very cynical realpolitik that plays ball with very right-wing politicians and economic forces.”
> And now, Petras concludes, “In Haiti, Carter has used that moral image again to impose one of the worst settlements imaginable.”
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