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A Media Unmoored from Facts
A Media Unmoored from Facts Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. journalism has completely lost its way, especially in dealing with foreign policy issues where bias now overwhelms any commitment to facts, a dangerous development, writes Robert Parry. Several weeks ago, I received a phone call from legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh who had seen one of my recent stories about […]
The End of Ordinary Politics
The End of Ordinary Politics Archdruids may take vacations but politics never sleeps, and during the month that’s elapsed since the last post here on The Archdruid Report, quite a number of things relevant to this blog’s project have gone spinning past the startled eyes of those who pay attention to the US political scene. I’ll […]
World Class Journalist Spills the Beans, Admits Mainstream Media is Completely Fake
World Class Journalist Spills the Beans, Admits Mainstream Media is Completely Fake Recently, Dr. Ulfakatte went on public television stating that he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, also adding that noncompliance with these orders would result in him losing his job. He recently made an appearance on […]
Egypt Bars Journalist From Leaving Country as Crackdown on Dissent Widens
Egypt Bars Journalist From Leaving Country as Crackdown on Dissent Widens One of Egypt’s leading investigative journalists, Hossam Bahgat, was prevented from boarding a flight to Jordan today when officials at Cairo International Airport informed him that his name had been added to a list of citizens barred from traveling abroad. Bahgat, who was detained […]
10 Signs You’ve Bought ‘Spin’
10 Signs You’ve Bought ‘Spin’ We live in a world with an incredible imbalance of power. Whether you believe in ‘conspiracies’ or not, there is no doubt that a tiny fraction of the world population has the means to manipulate and sway public opinion in order to maintain a paradigm that promotes and maintains their […]
Turkish prosecutors demand life sentences for 2 jailed Erdogan critics
Turkish prosecutors demand life sentences for 2 jailed Erdogan critics A woman walks past a banner that reads, “Even you arrest (journalists) or censor (media) we know that you are a war criminal Tayyip” and with a picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a protest over the arrest of journalists Can Dundar and […]
“Miracle of American Oil”: Continental Resources Courted Corporate Media to Sell Oil Exports
“Miracle of American Oil”: Continental Resources Courted Corporate Media to Sell Oil Exports A document published by the Public Relations Society of America, discovered by DeSmog, reveals that from the onset of its public relations campaign, the oil industry courted mainstream media reporters to help it sell the idea of lifting the ban on crude oil exports to the […]
Shining a Light
Shining a Light The just-released movie Spotlight is about a Boston Globe investigative reporting team circa 2001-02 that uncovered and documented a vast network of child sex abuse by priests in the Catholic Church that had been on-going for decades. More to the point, Spotlight revealed the institutional rot at the very top of the Boston Catholic Church hierarchy, led by […]
Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up
Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up ‘We’ve often wondered if Exxon actually hates our children because they so consistently stand in the way of safeguarding their future,’ campaigner said, ‘it turns out they apparently hate good journalism as well.’ U.S. Senator and White House hopeful Bernie Sanders on Tuesday slammed Exxon on […]
Turkey Arrests Journalists Who Exposed Erdogan’s Weapons Smuggling To Extremist Syrian Rebels
Turkey Arrests Journalists Who Exposed Erdogan’s Weapons Smuggling To Extremist Syrian Rebels One of Turkish president Recep Erdogan’s key contentions in the ongoing diplomatic spat with Russia is that everything that Russia has accused Turkey of doing, from funding the Islamic State’s oil purchases, to providing weapons for Syrian “rebels” intent on eradicating the Assad […]
“There’s No Such Thing As ISIS”: Journalist Destroys West’s Terror Narrative, Warns Of Crackdown On “Dissidents”
“There’s No Such Thing As ISIS”: Journalist Destroys West’s Terror Narrative, Warns Of Crackdown On “Dissidents” On Saturday, the day after the massacre in France which turned the streets of Paris into a warzone and left some 130 civilians dead, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had a message for the West. While condemning the attacks and branding the […]
How to Survive a Terrorist Attack
How to Survive a Terrorist Attack When horrible events happen, people want to know why. Why was a random group of people targeted to have their innocent day destroyed by violence and terror? Why did the culprit choose that group of victims, that day on the calendar, that specific location? And who? Who was the mastermind behind the […]
How Technology Kills Democracy
How Technology Kills Democracy In shutting down whistleblowing and investigative journalism on national security issues, the U.S. government can use its technology to determine who is speaking to whom and then use that metadata as evidence of leaks, a chilling new reality is that endangers democracy, writes Norman Solomon. Of all the excuses ladled out for […]
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’ When the “Downing Street Memo” surfaced in the UK in 2006 revealing that the intelligence to justify the Iraq War had been “fixed” around the policy, the mainstream U.S. media largely ignored it. The same has now happened with the leak of documents about President Obama’s drone war, writes John […]
