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For Our Rulers, Smearing A Dissident Journalist Is As Good As Killing Him
For Our Rulers, Smearing A Dissident Journalist Is As Good As Killing Him As I write this, demonstrations around the world are taking place in protest of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange’s arbitrary detention and silencing by the US-centralized power establishment that has been actively pursuing his destruction for over a decade. The demonstrations will be well-attended, but […]
California Lacks Real Marine Protection as Offshore Drilling Expands in State Waters
California Lacks Real Marine Protection as Offshore Drilling Expands in State Waters One of the big news stories neglected by both the mainstream and “alternative” media is the capture of California politics and the regulatory apparatus by Big Oil and other corporate interests in recent years – and the massive expansion of offshore drilling that has occurred […]
Staying the Course: the Long March of Middle East Destruction
Staying the Course: the Long March of Middle East Destruction When falsely convicted Andy Dufresne bored a hole through the Shawshank prison wall over the course of two decades, narrator “Red” says that Andy always liked geology, and that geology, like digging through a prison wall with a rock hammer, is just a matter of “pressure […]
The American Empire and its Media
The American Empire and its Media Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major US news outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Established in 1921 as a private, bipartisan organization to “awaken America to its worldwide responsibilities”, the CFR and its close to […]
Fine-Tuning the Surveillance State
Fine-Tuning the Surveillance State We have been watching the shift of society and all of its components to collectivist thought and action in preparation for the step into a full-blown totalitarian state. Already the Constitution and our rights enumerated within it have been relegated to impotency and practically abrogated. The key to this has not […]
How To Silence RT Forever
How To Silence RT Forever Loyalists of the western empire have been growing increasingly honest about their desire to use censorship and propaganda in order to win an “information war” against Russia. The other day we saw a Guardian article arguing for the necessity of a coordinated campaign by western governments to “combat Russian disinformation” due to […]
From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face
From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face People living in the Soviet Union had a wonderful phrase to describe the two biggest circulation state-controlled newspapers, Pravda (meaning “truth”) and Izvestia (meaning “news”). There’s no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, was the oft-repeated expression. It is unfortunate […]
The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim
The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim On the 19th of April, The Guardian published an article making the positive assertion that two Twitter accounts were run not by real people, but by automated bot software based in Russia. Since the article was published, the owners of both accounts have stepped forward, […]
MSM Is Frantically Attacking Dissenting Syria Narratives, And It Looks Really Bad
MSM Is Frantically Attacking Dissenting Syria Narratives, And It Looks Really Bad I write a lot about how, in a political environment that is saturated in disinformation and propaganda, it’s important to ignore people’s words and watch their actions instead to get a clear picture of what’s really happening. You could not ask for a better […]
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country Chris Hedges The mainstream media deflects attention from where power resides: corporations, not with the leaders of the free world. The arguments posed by Chris Hedges, that the U.S. is neither a democracy nor a republic but a totalitarian state that can now assassinate […]
Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections
Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections It’s alarming that there are far fewer media outlets for consumer protection news and features than there were thirty years ago. Recall the huge Phil Donahue Show, the regional radio show and TV news shows, the television networks and syndicated radio shows that would report and interview consumer advocates about the […]
More Lies from the Presstitutes
More Lies from the Presstitutes The shameless liars that comprise the US media intentionally exaggerated the marchers against “gun violance” by four times the acutal number. Why? Why are the media presstitutes involved in advocacy of agendas and not in reporting factual news? Recent polls show that a majority of Americans believe that gun ownership […]
America’s Troll Farm Media
America’s Troll Farm Media Photo by Porsche Brosseau | CC BY 2.0 Despite all the smoke and mirrors, most Americans seem to see where the stenographers of corporate capitalism are taking us. A recent Gallup poll found that while 84% of Americans see media as “critical” or “very important” to democracy, only 28% see the […]
Peter Schiff: ‘We Will Live Through Another Great Depression Which Will Be MUCH MUCH WORSE’
Peter Schiff: ‘We Will Live Through Another Great Depression Which Will Be MUCH MUCH WORSE’ Financial guru Peter Schiff, who accurately predicted the recession of 2008, says the problems we face now are even bigger. We will live through another Great Depression if Schiff is correct. And one of the main concerns is something very few […]
On Rational Optimism
March 23, 2018
ON RATIONAL OPTIMISM “We got stick for questions like, ‘Who came second in the last war?’” he recalled. “But the contestants weren’t always the brightest tickets — some of their IQs didn’t reach room temperature. Once I accidentally read out the question and the answer: ‘Where was President Kennedy assassinated, in Dallas?’ And the contestant […]
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