The Column

US Media Rushes to Manufacture Legal Legitimacy for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Tanker Piracy

Venezuela oil exports are not “black market” and US sanctions are not “international sanctions.” Why does our media keep saying otherwise?

Dec 12 • Adam Johnson

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November 2025

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Nov 24 • Adam Johnson

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Media Pontificating About Trump’s Motives for Attacking Venezuela Keep Ignoring that he Openly Admitted It Was to Take Their Oil

BBC, Politico, WaPo, CNN entertain many reasons for why Trump wants regime change in Venezuela—while ignoring the most obvious.

Nov 5 • Adam Johnson

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September 2025

The ADL Ignores Yet Another Elon Musk ‘Great Replacement’ Meltdown

Why does the alleged civil rights group continue to give a free pass to America’s most prominent antisemite?

Sep 12 • Adam Johnson

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August 2025

It’s Not Just 'Netanyahu': The Rise of Liberals’ One Bad Man Theory to Explain Away Gaza Genocide

Attempts to pin the horrors on “Netanyahu" obscure the reality of just how popular genocide is with US elites and within Israel itself.

Aug 9 • Adam Johnson

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July 2025

Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada'

Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as…

Jul 19 • Adam Johnson

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June 2025

Lawmakers and Pundits Speed Run Iraq WMDs-Level Lies About Iran

The US intelligence consensus is that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Why does our media and political class keep implying—and explicitly…

Jun 22 • Sarah Lazare and Adam Johnson

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Israeli Leaders Hiding in Tunnels, Underground IDF Bases in ‘Populated Areas’: US Media’s Human Shields Double Standard

Why is Jake Tapper not lamenting the IDF doing the exact same things he accuses Hamas of doing?

Jun 16 • Adam Johnson

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May 2025

If Harris Opposes Trump’s Horrific Gaza Policies, She Should Say So

Her defenders insist she would have been “better on Gaza.” This is very possible. But why doesn’t she explain how in her own words?

May 19 • Adam Johnson

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April 2025

As Trump and Israel Escalate Genocide in Gaza, Popular Media Continues to Ignore It

Under Biden, Gaza was excused, downplayed and natural disaster-rized. Under Trump it’s simply not a priority at all.

Apr 24 • Adam Johnson

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March 2025

Jeffrey Goldberg Dismissing Yemeni Deaths Is Why He Was in the Group Chat to Begin With

As someone who launders pro-Israel, pro-US government talking points for a living, Goldberg being on Trump officials’ speed dial makes perfect sense—and…

Mar 27 • Sarah Lazare

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Columbia Pulitzer Board Member Explicitly Advocated Killing Palestinian Journalists. Does This “Threaten the Safety” of Palestinian…

Why does the “safety” framework never apply to Arab students?

Mar 14 • Adam Johnson

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