Media
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Watch: Max Blumenthal & Aaron Mate slam corporate media disinfo at Collision Toronto
At the Collision tech conference in Toronto on 6/21/22, before a hostile audience filled with members of the corporate press, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation on the planet, working closely with the national security state to cultivate public support for war… Continue reading
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New Frame steps back
After close to four years of intense work we must now reimagine how journalism can and should be done in a moment when the coils of social and political crisis squeeze ever more tightly. Continue reading
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How Spooks and Establishment Journalists Are Circling The Wagons
Analysis — Earlier this month, Russia banned 29 British journalists, including several from the BBC and The Guardian, on the grounds that they were “associated with the defense complex”. That claim was not, at least in all cases, quite as preposterous as was widely assumed. Continue reading
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Open Letter to the BBC: Every Article is a Lie to Attack Nicaragua
The June 23 BBC article by Bernd Debusmann, “US Immigration: They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua,” confirms that the corporate media consistently make every article an attack on its Sandinista Government. Continue reading
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Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
They were shooting directly at the journalists: New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces”. Thus read a CNN headline on May 26, 2022, for an article describing what may have been a “targeted killing,” – that is, assassination – of Al Jazeera journalist Shirleen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old highly esteemed Palestinian-American journalist who… Continue reading
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The Mainstream Worldview Is Self-Evidently Bullshit: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
They’ve lied about every war, and they’ve openly acknowledged lying about this very war, but you’re a Kremlin agent if you say they’re lying to us about this war. Continue reading
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Media Tune Down Ukraine Hysteria – Continue To Print Falsehoods
The Ukraine war has fallen below the fold of the New York Times and the Washington Post. It is not the only sign that the ‘western’ war rage and cheer leading for Ukraine has ended. When one scrolls down though there are still Ukraine headlines on the NYT front page. Continue reading
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SouthFront
BBC World’s Disinformation Team latest piece of disinformation from NATO’s Ukrainian front is that a group of young Crimeans operate a “company, whose name translates as Southern Front, [which] makes and distributes pro-Vladimir Putin propaganda across YouTube, social media app Telegram, and through a website that targets areas newly under Russian control”. Continue reading
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Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed
Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left. Continue reading
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Ukraine: The Disinformation War
Radio 4’s hit piece was a personalized attack on a number of British-based academics, who had been recently named and shamed in the British House of Commons for not being sufficiently Russophobic Continue reading
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MSM Offers Rare Glimpse Into How Bad Things Are Really Going For Ukrainian Forces
While everyone’s focused on the latest mass shooting in the US, The Washington Post published what may be the first major acknowledgement from the mainstream western media that Ukraine’s war against Russia has not been nearly the cakewalk they’ve been leading the public to believe. Continue reading
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The Power of Lies
The comments on Peter Oborne’s excellent article on Julian Assange in the Guardian last week are a damning indictment of the media’s ability to instil near universal acceptance of “facts” which are easily proven lies. The Guardian chose as its “Guardian pick” to head the section a comment full of these entirely untrue assertions. Continue reading
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They’re Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
We’re in the final countdown to British Home Secretary Priti Patel’s decision on the fate of Julian Assange, with the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to the United States due to be approved or rejected by the end of the month. Joe Lauria has a new article out with Consortium News on the various pressures that Patel is… Continue reading
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Twitter To Ramp Up Censorship Of ‘Misinformation’ About The Ukraine War
Twitter has published what it calls a “crisis misinformation policy” announcing that it will be actively reducing the visibility of content found to be false which pertains to “situations of armed conflict, public health emergencies, and large-scale natural disasters.” Continue reading
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Western Media Engages in a War on Truth
YELLOW JOURNALISM OF THE HEARST ERA IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE 21ST CENTURY There is a wise old maxim that says, “The first step on the road to wisdom is to call things by their right names.” So, let’s do that. Continue reading
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Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC
NBC’s Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct US hot war with China. Continue reading
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NATO’s Wars on Citizen Journalists
After first citing the Armenian Holocaust and the Rape of Nanking to gain historical context, this article examines the recent Ukrainian arrest of citizen journalist Gonzalo Lira López and the smear campaigns against Patrick Lancaster and Graham Philips to explore the role of citizen journalists in NATO’s ongoing wars, Ukraine’s included. In concluding by examining the matrix… Continue reading
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PayPal’s IndyMedia Wipeout
A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won’t the company answer questions? Continue reading
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Media Are Now Whitewashing Nazis They Had Previously Condemned
Recently the New York Times, like many other ‘western’ outlets, has changed its language when reporting about the fascist Ukrainian Azov Battalion. What was once “a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization” which even the FBI said is notorious for its “association with neo-Nazi ideology” was first relabeled as merely “far right” before it became a normal “unit… Continue reading
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