Media
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The American media revives the methods of McCarthyism By Patrick Martin
In the wake of the one-two punch of articles in the New York Times and Washington Post suggesting that President Trump is an agent of the Russian government—or to be precise, that the FBI suspected that he was a Russian agent and opened a counterintelligence investigation (as the Times reports), and that Trump is concealing… Continue reading
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How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media by Whitney Webb
Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning” of a concerted effort by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to… Continue reading
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Corporate media smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange By Oscar Grenfell
The coverage has the character of a coordinated political campaign, with the most sinister motives. Its aim is to legitimise the stepped-up persecution of Assange by the US and British governments, which are pursuing the journalist and publisher because of WikiLeaks’ exposures of their war crimes, diplomatic intrigues and illegal spying on the American and… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Media Disinformation and The Protest Movement
10 January 2019 — Global Research In Pictures: The Largest Strike in History Is Happening in India Right Now By Ben Cowles, January 09, 2019 Around 150 million people began a two-day general strike in India today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-Labour and anti-trade union policies in India. Continue reading
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Back to the USSR: How to Read Western News By Patrick Armstrong
The heroes of Dickens’ Pickwick Papers visit the fictional borough of Eatanswill to observe an election between the candidates of the Blue Party and the Buff Party. The town is passionately divided, on all possible issues, between the two parties. Each party has its own newspaper: the Eatanswill Gazette is Blue and entirely devoted to… Continue reading
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Speaking truth to empire: William Blum
December 9 William Blum died. He was one of the great truth-tellers of this or any other era and an example of everything a real journalist should be. Continue reading
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Twitter and the Smearing of Corbyn and Assange: A Research Note on the “Integrity Initiative” By Mark Curtis
The UK government-financed Integrity Initiative, managed by the Institute for Statecraft, is ostensibly a “counter disinformation” programme to challenge Russian information operations. However, it has been revealed that the Integrity Initiative twitter handle and some individuals associated with this programme have also been tweeting messages attacking Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. [i] This takes on special… Continue reading
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Facebook: The global censor
The year 2018 has seen a vast intensification of internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Twitter, transforming them from tools for exchanging information and communicating around the world into massive censorship dragnets for policing what their users say, do and think. Continue reading
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Michael Isikoff Cuts His Losses at ‘Russian Roulette’ By Ray McGovern
Michael Isikoff, one of the biggest proponents of the Russia-gate story now says that Robert Mueller’s investigation is “not where a lot of people would like it to be,” says Ray McGovern. Continue reading
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Project Censored: All the News the Establishment Media Saw Fit not to Print (Pt 2/2)
19 December 2018 — TRNN Since 1976 Project Censored has been bringing us all the news the corporate media don’t want us to hear Continue reading
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Project Censored: All the News the Establishment Media Saw Fit not to Print (Pt 1/2)
19 December 2018 — TRNN Since 1976 Project Censored has been bringing us all the news the corporate media don’t want us to hear (inc. transcript) Project Censored: All the News the Establishment Media Saw Fit not to Print (Pt 2/2) Continue reading
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Google CEO Exposes Shocking ‘Full Extent’ of Russian Meddling in 2016 By Tyler DURDEN
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the “full extent” of so-called Russian meddling activity that took place on the platform during all of 2016 was $4,700 spent on some digital advertisements. Continue reading
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One Year Ago — “Journalists for Hire : How the CIA Buys the News”
“I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years and I was educated to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public. The truth will come out one day, the truth won’t die.” Dr. Udo Ulfkotte — German Journalist and Whistleblower Continue reading
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The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are The MSM And The US State Department
The US State Department has issued a statement accusing the Syrian government of having carried out a false flag chemical weapons attack in northwestern Aleppo with the intent to blame it on the jihadist factions in the region, citing “credible info” that the public has not been permitted to see. Never mind the known fact… Continue reading
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Misreporting Manafort and the Julian Assange Affair: A Case Study in Journalistic Malpractice By Alan MacLeod
In what has been described as potentially the biggest story of the year, the Guardian’s Luke Harding (11/27/18) reported last week that Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, held a series of secret talks with WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. These meetings were said to have occurred inside the Ecuadorian embassy between 2013 and 2016.… Continue reading
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Why Sherlock Holmes was never considered a conspiracy theorist (and alternative media shouldn’t be either) By Robert Bridge
It is difficult to understand how the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle remains so popular today with his adventures of the world’s most famous detective when any critical thinking that contradicts the status quo is dismissed out of hand as the ranting of a lunatic. Continue reading
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Top Ecuadorian Diplomat Destroys Guardian’s Claim that Manafort Visited Assange
A former consul and first secretary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London has put the final nail in the coffin of credibility for The Guardian, refuting the paper’s fantastical and wholly unsupported claim that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and the spring of 2016 – a… Continue reading
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President Issias Aferwerki Vs. Al Jazeera; February 2010 By Thomas C Mountain
This transcript is from an interview done by Eritrean President Issias Aferwerki and Al Jazeera “journalist” Jane Dutton in February 2010, shortly after the UNSC passed punitive sanctions against Eritrea based on what has now been proven to be fabrications. The sanctions are now history and this interview stands as an example for aspiring journalists… Continue reading
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MSM Is Getting Weirder, More Frantic, And More Desperate By The Day By Caitlin Johnstone
When even the Washington Post is saying your Russiagate article is bad journalism, your Russiagate article is really, really bad journalism. Continue reading
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The Guardian/Politico Psyop Against WikiLeaks By Caitlin Johnstone
For the first few hours after any new “bombshell” Russia-gate story comes out, my social media notifications always light up with poorly written posts by liberal establishment loyalists saying things like “HAHAHA @caitoz this proves you wrong now will you FINALLY stop denying Russian collusion???” Then, when people start actually analyzing that story and noting… Continue reading
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