The Nation is not real news, that's suspicious already. It's real controlled opposition. A Hillary bot? Get real. Nobody did more than me to expose her and the Clintons as an Establishment puppets when I found she was running for Illuminati-in-Chief. Sorry, Miss, I don't believe you - time will tell (show). You're some sort of leftist/liberal socialist supporter/advocate or operative. But thanks for the reply. The mass media - almost all public opinion - is controlled by the ruling elites; there's no indication you'd be different, but I will support you if you are. The people have been fooled 1,000,000 times before - politicians, officials, news/media, they always promise they're anti-Establishment. Like The Who, I "Won't Get Fooled, Again," don't intend to, anyways.

http://www.newsofinterest.tv/politics/media_issues/demnow_npr_controlled.php
Disappointingly, an examination behind the scenes of many media outlets such as ”Democracy Now!” [and The Nation] reveal that they are controlled by the same global elite who control all major mainstream news sources. Conflicts of interest exist that are potentially very dangerous due to their audience's unsuspecting level of trust and the general lack of criticism such outlets receive.

A defining charactaristic of the bias at such media outlets is their supplying of disinformation meant to forward deceptive establishment globalist objectives— including about issues such as the economy, global warming, pharmaceutical corruption, terrorism, liberties and rights, as well as their concealing of the most genuine mechanisms of corruption in the political processes of the United States and the rest of the world.

It is explained that involvement of essentially the entire political establishment in funding major ”alternative” media insures that such outlets will be ”more bark than bite” and be ”the kind of 'opposition' that the ruling elite can tolerate and live with.” That's called controlled opposition.

I haven't looked at this alternative-media stuff for years, but the title/conclusion is deliberately misleading: These media sources are leftist, what they are is phony anti-Communist And you'll notice, ahem, The Nation is one of the media outlets illustrated in the flowchart.
As I noted, I'm kind of rusty about these older, so called, "alternative media", but I think Feldman/Salter's deliberate illogic is: These media outlets are funded by the big, capitalist foundations, so therefore, they must be phony leftist/Communist; when in fact the big foundations - Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Soros, MacArthur, etc. - represent monopoly capitalism, which has the same goals as/works together with Communism (international socialism/liberalism/progressivism) to conquer, enslave and rule the world:

https://ia800208.us.archive.org/15/items/TheRockefellerFile/AllenGary-1976TheRockefellerFile.pdf
The Rockefeller File is not fiction. It is a compact, powerful and frightening presentation of what may be the most important story of our lifetime, the drive of the Rockefellers and their allies to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.

Sutton postulates why wealthy men like the Rockefellers would cooperate with and even
finance the very Communists who are allegedly sworn to bury them.
The British-born scholar points out:
... one barrier to mature understanding of recent history is the notion that all capitalists
are the bitter and unswerving enemies of all Marxists and Socialists. This erroneous idea
originated with Karl Marx and was undoubtedly useful to his purposes. In fact, the idea is nonsense. There has been a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between international political capitalists and international revolutionary socialists-to their mutual benefit.

I became aware of the New World Order after I read Feldman's articles, I have to review them. But Bob Feldman, on his blog, had a link to the World Socialist Web, it may be why his and Brian Salter's conclusion Phony Leftist, was deliberately misleading. As Gary Allen said, the way to world Communism is through world socialism.