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Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon’s Censorship End-Around
Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon’s Censorship End-Around The Consortium News lawsuit against a private news rating system lays out how the government can suppress speech by proxy Monday, the independent website Consortium News filed suit against the United States of America and Newsguard Technologies. The complaint targeting both the government and a private media ratings service is an […]
Chris Hedges: ‘The Greatest Evil is War’
Chris Hedges: ‘The Greatest Evil is War’ Tomas was crippled for a war that should never have been fought. He was crippled for the lies of politicians. He was crippled for war profiteers. He was crippled for the careers of generals. Excerpts from the author’s new book, The Greatest Evil is War. I flew to Kansas City […]
JOHN PILGER: Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
JOHN PILGER: Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done. Leni Riefenstahl, center, filming with two assistants, 1936. (Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, […]
WATCH: Assange: Can Exposure Bring Justice?
WATCH: Assange: Can Exposure Bring Justice? Join Fidel Narváez, former consul at the Ecuador embassy in London, and John Kiriakou, former C.I.A. officer and CN columnist, discussing Julian Assange’s case. Produced by the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, WI. Watch the replay. What really went down at the Ecuadorian Embassy that allegedly triggered the C.I.A. plot to […]
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping Julian Assange’s High Court judges offered no mitigation, no suggestion that they had agonised over legalities or even basic morality, writes John Pilger. “Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” –- Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds […]
COP26: Uberizing Farms to Save the Climate
COP26: Uberizing Farms to Save the Climate At COP26, there was a notable silence around the distorted food system that pollutes the Earth and our bodies, writes Vijay Prashad. Mining Cryptocurrency, 2021. (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) As the last private plane took off from the Glasgow airport and the dust settled, the detritus of the 26th […]
Méxican Seeds
Méxican Seeds Last month’s ruling by the country’s Supreme Court fuels sustainable farming worldwide, writes Ernesto Hernández-López. Mexico’s Supreme Court in Mexico City. (Ricardo Daniel Maldonado, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) Last month México’s Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for seed companies. In a historic step, it ruled for corn […]
Corporate Greed the ‘Real Culprit Behind Rising Prices,’ Researchers Say
Corporate Greed the ‘Real Culprit Behind Rising Prices,’ Researchers Say “The more sway mega-corporations have over our economy, the more power they have to gouge customers, squeeze Main Street, and exploit workers.” Amid mounting data showing that people are paying more for food at grocery stores around the United States, a new analysis out Wednesday reveals how corporate […]
The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden’s new wars
The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden’s new wars Biden begins his first address to the UN General Assemble with a lie: “…the U.S. is not at war.” — Joe Lauria “Joe Biden, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, told world leaders Tuesday: ‘I stand here today, for the first time […]
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War. May 25, 2002: Two U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters land at Bagram Airfield in Parwan, Afghanistan, after completing a mission. (U.S. National Archives) As the hawks who have been lying about the U.S. […]
Craig Murray: The Decline of Western Power
Craig Murray: The Decline of Western Power The really interesting thing about the G7 summit is that it wasn’t interesting. Nobody expected it to change the world, and it won’t. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other leaders of the G7 watch the Red Arrows fly over in Carbis Bay, June 12. (Simon Dawson, No […]
Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices & Targets Journalists
Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices & Targets Journalists Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage, writes Norman Solomon. Palestinian solidarity demonstration in New York City on May 11. (Andrew Ratto, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) Israel’s missile attack on media offices in Gaza City last weekend […]
Big Ag’s Wedding to Big Data
Big Ag’s Wedding to Big Data Jomo Kwame Sundara warns about how the Davos World Economic Forum’s much touted “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (IR4.0) is transforming food systems. For instance, agriculture is now second only to the military in drone use. (DJI-Agras from Pixabay) Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under […]
Corporate Media’s War to Snuff Out Independent Journalism
Corporate Media’s War to Snuff Out Independent Journalism Journalist Jonathan Cook’s searing talk at the International Festival of Whistleblowing, Dissent and Accountability on Saturday on the counterattack from legacy media. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net I wanted to use this opportunity to talk about my experiences over the past two decades working with new technology as an independent […]
The Three Types of US ‘Regime Change’
January 22, 2022
The Three Types of US ‘Regime Change’ When the U.S. overthrows a foreign government it either works from the top down, the bottom up, or through military invasion, writes Joe Lauria. Chilean presidential palace during U.S.-backed coup, Sept. 11, 1973. (Library of the Chilean National Congress/Wikipedia) Throughout the long, documented history of the United States illegally overthrowing […]
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