Media
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Files expose Britain’s secret D-Notice censorship regime
Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. The files show the Committee boasting of a “90% + success rate” in enforcing the official British line on any controversial story – or disappearing reports entirely. Continue reading
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Whose news is it — and who decides what we see?
Fidel Castro was one of the great communicators. He focused on the problems of raising the cultural level so that people could gain control of their own destiny. Continue reading
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US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year
The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” made the case for unity to colonists wanting independence from Great Britain. Thomas Nast exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall; when Tweed attempted to escape justice, he was identified from a Nast cartoon. It… Continue reading
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MintPress: Keeping truth alive in a war of lies
Friday, 12 September 2025 — MintPress News / IndieGoGo MintPress is at risk of shutting down. Support independentwatchdog journalism that names the names This is an urgent call to action. After 14 years of operations, MintPress News is in danger of being silenced. One of our main lines of funding has been cut, and if Continue reading
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Even the media’s Gaza ‘investigations’ hide the real story of Israel’s atrocities
The atrocity news treadmill makes sure western media are so busy chasing after Israel’s latest crime in Gaza they never pause long enough to piece together the bigger story of genocide Continue reading
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How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC Continue reading
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Defend The Palestine Chronicle against a Legal Assault on Press Freedom – Urgent Appeal
The Palestine Chronicle is under attack. A year ago, a well-funded team of lawyers filed a lawsuit against our organization and two of its principals. We believe this is a concerted effort to silence independent journalism and suppress the truth about Palestine. We know of similar lawsuits targeting other media outlets, and this legal pressure… Continue reading
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The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle East Continue reading
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The Brass Checkers: Fact-Checkers ‘R’ the ‘New Age Censors and Parody for Brilliance. Part 1
In 1919, Upton Sinclair wrote a scathing exposé of American journalism as a racket, a system where truth is sold like a body in a brothel. Today’s pimps of public opinion aren’t just corporate editors or advertisers. They wear press badges labelled “Fact Checker” and claim neutrality. But scratch the surface, and many are professional… Continue reading
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Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack
As Israel unveils its final genocide push, and mass death from starvation looms in Gaza, western media and politicians are tentatively starting to speak up Continue reading
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Jeremy Bowen’s interview with Gaza aid chief was shameful – and he knows it
There was no excuse for the BBC to follow Israel in treating the head of UNRWA as though he is aligned with terrorism. This kind of craven journalism just makes Israel’s job of genocide easier Continue reading
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From Ms. Rachel To Anti-War College Students: The End Of American Free Speech
Working together with the most powerful government in the world, Zionist organizations are smearing and persecuting anyone who expresses sympathy with Palestinians, subjected to a genocide subsidized with their own tax dollars. From the media to academia, American free speech rights are being stripped. Continue reading
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The pincer movement against the BBC
So the BBC Director General, Tim Davie has agreed there should be an independent inquiry into the corporation’s coverage of what they will not call the genocide in Palestine. Continue reading
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Facing Prison Time in Germany for Criticizing an Israeli Journalist: The Case of Hüseyin Dogru
Amid a crackdown on pro-Palestine voices in Germany, a journalist regularly attacked as a Russian operative is facing up to three years in prison for defamation of an Israel-based journalist. Hüseyin Dogru, founder of red. media, has been charged with defamation for actions relating to a spat with Nicholas Potter, a German state-funded reporter working… Continue reading
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Wartime journalism: The choices we make and the price we pay
This piece explores the contemplations and the moral duty of being a media worker in Gaza and Lebanon during wartime, when reporting under fire becomes a revolutionary act against colonial violence. Continue reading
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Marked for Assassination: Gaza Journalists on Israeli Hit List Refuse to Stop Reporting
The day after the assassination of Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, the Israeli military openly celebrated his killing. A correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher and a contributor to Drop Site News, Shabat was killed on March 24 when the Israeli military targeted him as he was driving in his car in Beit Lahia. He was 23… Continue reading
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Ukraine War and Media Manipulation, who controls what you see?
I was on SaltCubeAnalytics to discuss why narrative control and propaganda are key components of war. Framing conflicts as a struggle between good and evil is beneficial to mobilise public support for war, although it makes it near impossible to accept a workable peace. Continue reading
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Former IOF Chief held secret UK media meetings to spin Gaza war coverage
A Declassified UK investigation has uncovered secret meetings between former IOF Chief Aviv Kohavi and top British media executives, including editors from The Guardian, BBC, and Financial Times. Backed by “Israel’s” military and foreign ministry, these talks aimed to shape Western coverage of “Israel’s” war on Gaza as global outrage over the Israeli atrocities grew.… Continue reading
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The BBC deleted its own documentary about Gaza following pressure from the Israel Lobby in the UK
Saturday, 22 February 2025 — MintPress News The documentary, that is narrated by a child in the Gaza Strip, takes the viewer through a journey on surviving the Israeli onslaught. However, the Israel Lobby and Zionist activists began immediately accusing the BBC of publishing “Hamas” propaganda. In order to appease the powerful lobby, the BBC Continue reading
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Jerusalem Post Targets MintPress After Exposé on Israeli Spies in US Media
In December, The Jerusalem Post published an investigation from Nicholas Potter, a “counter-extremism expert,” who falsely accused MintPress News of being part of a network of far-left, foreign government-funded outlets that push conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic extremism. The claims are untrue and are particularly ironic, considering the calls for the extermination and expulsion of Palestinians… Continue reading
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