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America’s Dying Democracy
America’s Dying Democracy Democracy, as a noble principle of self-governance, is fading away in big ways and small, with special interests seizing control of both media and politicians and with the people increasingly manipulated and misinformed. In this impassioned appeal, Bill Moyers calls it “the fight of our lives.” In the fall of 2001, in […]
7 Examples of Demonising Dissention and Public Opinion
7 Examples of Demonising Dissention and Public Opinion As the Western world powers that be tighten their tyrannical controlling noose on humanity dissention and public opinion has never been so important: -As consistent with the quote from Orwell‘s novel 1984 “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” To countermeasure this much-needed dissention […]
The American Media: Pandering to Bias and Ignorance
The American Media: Pandering to Bias and Ignorance The Texas board of education didn’t find anything wrong with a world geography textbook that said slaves from Africa were workers, but that immigrants from northern Europe were indentured servants. This is the same school board that five years ago demanded that textbooks emphasize that slavery was […]
6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing
6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing There is an information awakening taking place right now, and mainstream media is being outed for what it really is: corporate and government controlled propaganda. People are turning to alternative news sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a result, the old guard of media is collapsing at […]
Peak Oil: Imagine
Peak Oil: Imagine Imagine what would happen if citizens took a moment or two to ponder the implications of the nonsense peddled to them daily by those public voices having decidedly different priorities than the public’s continued well-being…. Thanks to investment into supercomputers, robotics and the use of chemicals to extract […]
PBS Joins the MSM’s Syria-Russia Bias
PBS Joins the MSM’s Syria-Russia Bias Mainstream U.S. media systematically excludes points of view on world affairs that deviate from Official Washington’s “group think.” With no lessons learned from the Iraq-WMD debacle, the MSM only lets on establishment or right-wing pundits with conformist points of view on crises with Syria and Russia, notes Rick Sterling. PBS Newshour is considered high-quality journalism by many […]
Research Confirms ExxonMobil, Koch-funded Climate Denial Echo Chamber Polluted Mainstream Media
Research Confirms ExxonMobil, Koch-funded Climate Denial Echo Chamber Polluted Mainstream Media A new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS) shows that the climate denial echo chamber organizations funded by ExxonMobil and Koch family foundations produced misinformation that effectively polluted mainstream media coverage of climate science and polarized the […]
How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria
How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria Washington, DC (TFC) – Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it […]
Right Again, Pt. 1
Right Again, Pt. 1 Human nature being what it is, predictably there are those who still harbor doubts about certain issues pertaining to current and future fossil fuel supplies. There is, however, no doubt that there’s an over-abundance of juvenile, fact-free nonsense passing as gospel truth from industry cheerleaders and media counterparts. To whose benefit […]
How the Mass Media Controls Consensus Reality
How the Mass Media Controls Consensus Reality “The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.” — George Orwell “It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” — Henry Kissinger “Whoever controls the media controls reality.” — Peter Jennings “When a well-packaged web of […]
The ‘Anti-Knowledge’ of the Elites
The ‘Anti-Knowledge’ of the Elites Exclusive: It’s fairly easy to spot the “anti-knowledge” spouted by the Tea Party and the Religious Right’s favorite candidates, but a more subtle form of reality-deprived “group think” pervades America’s elites though it is rarely noted in the polite circles of the mainstream media, writes Mike Lofgren. In a previous piece, I […]
BBC Protects U.K.’s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing
BBC Protects U.K.’s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing The BBC loves to boast about how “objective” and “neutral” it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media outlet will go to protect one of the U.K. government’s closest allies, Saudi Arabia, […]
MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’
MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’ Exclusive: For skilled intelligence operatives, the Internet can be a devil’s playground, a place to circulate doctored photos, audio and documents, making investigations based on “social media” and such sources particularly risky, a point worth recalling in the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, says Robert Parry. The first thing any thinking person learns […]
Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Lies
Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Lies Over the last few years, a growing number of people have been taking a hard look at what is happening to our planet – historic droughts, rising sea levels, massive floods – and acknowledging, finally, that human activity is propelling rapid climate change. But guess what? Exxon (now ExxonMobil) […]
