MEDIA
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Politics – the entertainment division of the military industrial complex
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 — MROnline Donald Trump, an entertainer paid for by the military industrial complex. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Originally published: rabble.ca on November 14, 2024 by Ole Hendrickson (more by rabble.ca) | (Posted Nov 25, 2024) Being from Baltimore, I take civic pride in its writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Continue reading
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The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now
It sure is an interesting coincidence how all this mass media demonizing and dehumanizing of Muslim populations is happening at the exact same time the western empire is raining military explosives upon nations full of Muslims. Continue reading
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Ukraine & Nukes
The New York Times recently published an article by David Sanger entitled “Putin spins a conspiracy theory that Ukraine is on a path to produce nuclear weapons.” Unfortunately, it is Sanger who puts so much spin in his reporting that he leaves his readers with a grossly distorted version of the what the presidents of Russia and Ukraine… Continue reading
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America’s broadband crisis: the making of a twenty-first-century cartel
Invoking president Franklin Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Plan of 1936 in scope and vision, the statement announced: “The President believes that we can bring affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband to every American through a historic investment of $100 billion.”2 In the months since Biden introduced his plan, it has been politically revised with the most recent broadband… Continue reading
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Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Internet encyclopedia giant Wikipedia is censoring independent news websites by adding them to an official blacklist of taboo “deprecated” media outlets. Continue reading
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Blogopopsicles of the world unite! by William Bowles
The Web has opened a veritable can of worms as far as the mainstream media are concerned, even so-called liberal journalists seem to feel threatened by the emergence of a global, independent media, the latest one to emerge being Robert Fisk (who I referred to in my last piece). Now whether, as fellow blogopopsicle Chris… Continue reading
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Letter from a far-off galaxy by William Bowles
1 August 2007 “I despise the internet. It’s irresponsible and, often, a net of hate. And I don’t have time for Blogopops. But here’s a tale of two gutless newspapers which explains why more and more people are Googling rather than turning pages.” — Robert Fisk: “No wonder the bloggers are winning”, Published in the Continue reading
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Total power drives you totally mad by Willliam Bowles
17 July 2007 One tends to think of those who rule as being ruthlessly logical in their application of power; after all, maintenance of the status quo should surely be one of their major objectives? But their loss of legitimacy, obvious to all except the most myopic and self-delusional points to something quite fundamental taking Continue reading
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Whose culture is it anyway? By William Bowles
29 June, 2007 “And so, the end of the Blairite decade. Tributes, applause and a standing ovation at PM’s Question Time. Gushing reflections from fellow politicians and sundry acolytes. And, of course, the whole panoply of deferential BBC coverage replete with helicopter ‘reportage’ of official cars going to and from the Palace. How abjectly depressing, Continue reading
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Independence Day By William Bowles
There could be no better exemplar of the mindset of the servants of capital than yesterday’s (3/6/06) editorial in the London Independent. Titled ‘A protracted and messy conflict, with its myriad dark corners’, at first reading it would seem to be a condemnation of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but a closer examination reveals… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 