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That Time CNN Staged A Fake Interview With A Syrian Child For War Propaganda
That Time CNN Staged A Fake Interview With A Syrian Child For War Propaganda Imagine if you and some friends wandered into a completely dark room together for some reason. You’ve never been in this room before, and you can’t see a thing. Now imagine one of your friends says he can see everything in […]
Russian Media Irritates French Government: Curbing Press Freedom
Russian Media Irritates French Government: Curbing Press Freedom The report titled Information Manipulation: a Challenge for Our Democracies prepared by two government-linked think tanks – the French Foreign Ministry’s Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy (CAPS) and the Defense Ministry’s Institute for Strategic Studies (IRSEM) – saw light on Sept.4. The paper urges the French government to “name and isolate” outlets that act […]
How US Government Relies on Lying Media
How US Government Relies on Lying Media On Friday, August 31st, the neoconservative US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “The 3 million Syrians who have already been forced out of their homes and are now in #Idlib, will suffer from this aggression. Not good. The world is watching.” By “this aggression,” he was referring to the […]
Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To ‘Rise Up’
Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To ‘Rise Up’ In what we initially assumed was a satire piece, NBC News’ ‘fair and balanced’political chief Chuck Todd has taken to the auspiciously open-minded pages of The Atlantic to pen an op-ed explaining how we’ve all got it all wrong – it is […]
The Whole System Is Rigged
The Whole System Is Rigged From elections to media to the markets, it’s all controlled As the dog days of summer wind down, it’s hard not to notice how the climate is suffering brutally right now across many areas of the globe. Crop failures have hit hard across Europe. Australia is under an intense drought. […]
How To Wake Up
How To Wake Up I’ve been putting off writing this article all year, but readers keep asking for it, and since I’ve been writing about mass enlightenment a lot lately I figure I might as well slip it in now. It is a well-documented fact that it is possible for the human organism to move […]
Genocide of the Greek Nation
Genocide of the Greek Nation The political and media coverup of the genocide of the Greek Nation began yesterday (August 20) with European Union and other political statements announcing that the Greek Crisis is over. What they mean is that Greece is over, dead, and done with. It has been exploited to the limit, and […]
In Monsters We Trust: US Mainstream Media No Friend of the American People
In Monsters We Trust: US Mainstream Media No Friend of the American People Over the course of his turbulent presidency, Donald Trump has accused various media companies, with special attention reserved for CNN, as being purveyors of ‘fake news.’ In one early-morning Tweet last year, he slammed the “FAKE NEWS media” as the “enemy of the people.” […]
Free The Press
Free The Press William Hogarth Humours of an Election, Plate 2 1754 Two thirds of Americans want the Mueller investigation (inquisition, someone called it) over by the midterm elections. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said that if Mueller wants to interview Trump, he’ll have to do so before September 1, because the Trump camp doesn’t […]
OMG This This This This!
OMG This This This This! That’s right, I’m writing an entire goddamn article about a single tweet made by another political commentator. It probably won’t even be a long article, because the excellent Tim Black said it all. Call me lazy, I don’t care, this is the most interesting thing I’ve seen all day: “Last night, […]
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast He won a Pulitzer for My Lai and cracked Abu Ghraib wide open. But this reporter is still a lonely breed. Journalist Seymour Hersh in 2009. Credit: Institute for Policy Studies/Flickr Seymour Hersh, Reporter: A Memoir, Sy Hersh. Knopf, June 2018, 368 pages When people are comforted by government lies, […]
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People I detest the malignantly racist, sexist, narcissistic, and authoritarian pathological liar and bully Donald Trump on many different levels, and I share none of his sick world view, but the corporate media really is, well (to use Trump’s recurrent phrase), “the enemy of the people.” Here below is […]
In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’
In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’ “Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” Facebook admitted Wednesday that “most” of its 2 million users likely had their personal information collected by “malicious actors.” (Photo: Legal Loop) During a closed-door […]
The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People”
The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People” I find it sad and sickening that most Americans, and the corporate media that shapes them, are more concerned about the effects of Russian “meddling” on our “democracy” than they are about our own home-grown oligarchs, who are not only meddling, but have bought Congress and […]
