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In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible
In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars We live in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled […]
The battle for control of our minds – and the invaluable role of independent journalism
The battle for control of our minds – and the invaluable role of independent journalism Journalists like myself were the first to break free of corporate media servitude. Now we face a backlash to disappear us by the very media establishment we threaten The true costs of the West’s corporate media system have been hidden […]
Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream
Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream Mill, Halsey, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Having written about the media for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of our belief system. […]
Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He […]
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 […]
Assange Wins. The Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed & Dissent Labelled Mental Illness
Assange Wins. The Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed & Dissent Labelled Mental Illness We must not downplay the price being demanded of us for this victory, writes Jonathan Cook. The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a U.S. demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a U.S. super-max jail for […]
The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions Image Source: TUBS – CC BY-SA 3.0 By any reckoning, the claim made this week by al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province — their final holdout in Syria — should have been treated by the western media with a high degree of scepticism. That […]
The Media’s 7 Years of Lies about Julian Assange Won’t Stop Now
The Media’s 7 Years of Lies about Julian Assange Won’t Stop Now Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time – a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books – to nothing more than a […]
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe. We have well-known sayings about power: “Knowledge is power”, […]
How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions
How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions Photo by Mohamed Nanabhay | CC BY 2.0 Nazareth. For several years now, I have been writing regular posts on my blog with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that […]
The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions Photo by watchsmart | CC BY 2.0 I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment nowadays from academics and mainstream journalists. Recently I lambasted Prof Richard Carver for his arguments against BDS that should have gained him an F for logic in […]
The UK’s Hidden Hand in Julian Assange’s Detention
The UK’s Hidden Hand in Julian Assange’s Detention Photo by Billy Bob Bain | CC BY 2.0 It now emerges that the last four years of Julian Assange’s effective imprisonment in the Ecuadorean embassy in London have been entirely unnecessary. In fact, they depended on a legal charade. Behind the scenes, Sweden wanted to drop the […]
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages Photo by Credo Action CC BY 2.0 Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content […]
