August 12, 2016
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Operation Mockingbird 2.0? Former CIA Director Planting Conspiracy Theories: Trump is an “Unwitting” Russian Agent By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Are we are now experiencing Operation Mockingbird 2.0? The CIA has been collaborating with the Main-Stream Media (MSM) for some time is now selling one of the most ridiculous “Conspiracy Theories” in recent years (Obama’s “I killed Osama Bin Laden” Hoax tops the list). Former CIA director, Michael J. Morell has claimed that the Republican… Continue reading
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The Arms Trade: 'You Don’t Get the Full Picture of What a Devastating Trade This Is'
Success is success after all, and for all the tales of a muckraking media, our guest’s experience suggests that when it comes to one of the most stupendously successful US industries, the press corps don’t seem all that eager to look behind the curtain. Continue reading
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How Media Distorted Syrian Ceasefire’s Breakdown
Coverage of the breakdown of the partial ceasefire in Syria illustrated the main way corporate news media distort public understanding of a major foreign policy story. The problem is not that the key events in the story are entirely unreported, but that they were downplayed and quickly forgotten in the media’s embrace of themes with… Continue reading
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NYT Reveals Think Tank It’s Cited for Years to Be Corrupt Arms Booster
A recent New York Times article (8/7/16) detailed, in often scathing terms, what many media critics already knew: that think tanks are frequently not objective, neutral arbiters of information, but corporate- and government-funded agenda-promoters with an academic veneer to give the appearance of impartiality. Continue reading
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Tell INEOS not to frack the UK!
Petrochemical giant INEOS is planning to flood the UK with fracking wells. And this week we learnt how the government plans to bribe people with cash payments to allow fracking in their community. Continue reading
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NSA: U.S. Policy in Argentina Declassified
The Obama Administration today released what it called “the first tranche” of declassified documents on repression in Argentina, fulfilling a commitment to open long-secret U.S. intelligence archives made by President Obama when he visited Buenos Aires on March 24, 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the military coup. Continue reading
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