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The Media Practice That Generates Clicks and Ruins Lives

[Justice] The Media Practice That Generates Clicks and Ruins Lives by Adam Johnson Posted February 16, 2019 The Columbia Journalism Review (10/24/18) ran a piece by Corey Hutchins on the practice of using mugshots by the media—both in terms of using mugshots for...

How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media

[Media] How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media By Whitney Webb Posted February 13, 2019 Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was...

Journalist Arrested at Police Press Conference for Not Being Mainstream

[Media] Journalist Arrested at Police Press Conference for Not Being Mainstream by Matt Agorist Posted February 5, 2019 A rather disturbing situation unfolded in Las Vegas on Wednesday as two independent journalists—attempting to exercise their First Amendment right...

A New Narrative Control Firm Works To Destroy Alternative Media

[Media] A New Narrative Control Firm Works To Destroy Alternative Media by Caitlin Johnstone Posted February 2, 2019 The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being promoted day in and day out by western mass media has had two of its major stories ripped to shreds in...

Covert British Military-Smear Machine Moving into US

[Media] Covert British Military-Smear Machine Moving into US By Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames Posted January 31, 2019 A bombshell domestic spy scandal has been unfolding in Britain, after hacked internal communications exposed a covert U.K. state military-intelligence...

A Majority of Americans Do Not Believe the Official 9/11 Story

[Media] A Majority of Americans Do Not Believe the Official 9/11 Story by Paul Craig Roberts Posted January 29, 2019 Conspiracy Theorists” are now a majority. A 2016 study from Chapman University in California, found more than half of the American people believe the...

7 Important Stories You Missed While The Media Obsessed Over MAGA Kid

[Media] 7 Important Stories You Missed While The Media Obsessed Over MAGA Kid by Derrick Broze Posted January 29, 2019 Another week, another opportunity for the corporate media to send the Internet into a frenzy and divide the nation over a fake controversy based on...

A N.Y. Times Story Just Accidentally Shredded the Russiagate Hysteria

[Media] A N.Y. Times Story Just Accidentally Shredded the Russiagate Hysteria by Lee Camp Posted January 28, 2019 Every once in a while, one of those stories comes along that makes the mainstream corporate media look like a bunch of middle-school kids filming their...

Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S.

[Politics] Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S. by Max Parry Posted January 27, 2019 In less than two months, the yellow vests (“gilets jaunes”) movement in France has reshaped the political landscape in Europe. For a...

Happy De-Platforming!

[Media] Happy De-Platforming! by Eric Peters Posted January 25, 2019 Most of you know that the organs (as Solzhenitsyn might have styled them) are using their effective monopoly control over all modern forms of communication – the Internet, social media – to stifle...

Mainstream Media Assaults on Freedom of Speech. “The Truth” is No Longer “Important”

[Media] Mainstream Media Assaults on Freedom of Speech. “The Truth” is No Longer “Important” By Shane Quinn Posted January 7, 2019 Such was the barrage of propaganda directed at the American public that 69% believed Saddam Hussein was “personally involved” in the...

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Deep State and Bob Parry Exposed It

[Politics] Yes, Virginia, There Is a Deep State and Bob Parry Exposed It by Ray McGovern Posted January 7, 2019 A year ago yesterday, it became fully clear what was behind the feverish attempt by our intelligence agencies and their mainstream media accomplices to...

The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department

[Media] The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department by Caitlin Johnstone Posted January 5, 2019 Conspiracy theories, in reality, are nothing more than people’s attempts to explain what is going on in their world. Why Trump got elected....

Sick Of Facebook? Read This.

[Media] Sick Of Facebook? Read This. by Eleanor Goldfield Posted January 1, 2019 Now is the time to defend the remnants of the Information Revolution. In the streets and online, we need to hear and uplift voices for radical and progressive change. Take off the...

Assange Prosecution Will Focus On Chelsea Manning Era Releases, Not DNC Emails

[Justice] Assange Prosecution Will Focus On Chelsea Manning Era Releases, Not DNC Emails by Elizabeth Vos Posted December 19, 2018 As noted by numerous press outlets and press freedom advocates, the prosecution – the end point of the longstanding persecution of Julian...

The Empire Keeps Proving Assange Right About Everything

[Justice] The Empire Keeps Proving Assange Right About Everything by Caitlin Johnstone Posted December 16, 2018 Julian Assange founded an innovative leak outlet on the premise that corrupt power can be fought with truth and transparency. Corrupt power responded by...

Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom

[Justice] Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom by Glenn Greenwald Posted December 16, 2018 The Trump Justice Department inadvertently revealed in a court filing that it has charged Julian Assange in a sealed...

Confirming Dangers of FCC’s Net Neutrality Repeal, New Study Shows Telecoms Throttling YouTube, Netflix, and Other Apps

[Media] Confirming Dangers of FCC's Net Neutrality Repeal, New Study Shows Telecoms Throttling YouTube, Netflix, and Other Apps by Jessica Corbett Posted December 7, 2018 An ongoing study first reported by Bloomberg reveals the extent to which major American telecom...

The West is Failing Julian Assange

[Justice] The West is Failing Julian Assange By Stefania Maurizi Posted December 4, 2018 The risk of an editor or publisher being extradited for his publications should raise red flags and public debate in our democratic societies, yet we don’t see any debate at all....

Snowden: Israeli Spyware Used By Governments to Pursue Journalists Targeted for Assassination

[Media] Snowden: Israeli Spyware Used By Governments to Pursue Journalists Targeted for Assassination by Whitney Webb Posted December 3, 2018 TEL AVIV — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told an Israeli audience on Tuesday that surveillance software designed by an...

Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now

[Media] Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We're All Digital Ghosts Now by Charles Hugh Smith Posted November 19, 2018 If you do a search of shadow banning, you'll find sites that claim to help you identify whether Twitter or Instagram has shadow banned...

Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning,” Says Top Neocon Insider

[Media] Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning,” Says Top Neocon Insider By Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague Posted November 18, 2018 At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent...

Western Media Attacks Critics of the White Helmets

[Media] Western Media Attacks Critics of the White Helmets Written by Rick Sterling Posted November 16, 2018 The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovani titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies...

MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice

[Media] MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice by Glenn Greenwald Posted November 15, 2018 On Thursday Oct 18, the Daily Beast published an article about the Saudi/US relationship by David...

The Screens

[Media] The Screens by Caitlin Johnstone Posted November 14, 2018 We are surrounded by screens full of voices that are always lying to us, and experts wonder why we’re so crazy and miserable all the time. The screens tell us, “This is a perfectly normal and sane way...

Digital Free Speech Zones are Here

[Media] Digital Free Speech Zones are Here by Dylan Charles Posted November 13, 2018 An empire of lies requires popular devotion to its founding illusions, lest it will collapse under the weight of its own hubris. It is therefore quite necessary to for those in power...

Internet Watchdog Exposes Israeli Tech Company’s ‘Government-Exclusive’ Spyware

[Media] Internet Watchdog Exposes Israeli Tech Company’s ‘Government-Exclusive’ Spyware by Richard Silverstein Posted December 4, 2018 Israel’s advanced military technology sector is producing scores of hackers and tech startups. One, in particular, is helping...

How the American Media Was Destroyed

[Media] How the American Media Was Destroyed by Paul Craig Roberts Posted October 31, 2018 In my September 24 column, “Truth Is Evaporating Before Our Eyes,” I used the destruction of the CBS news team that broke the Abu Ghraib story and the story of President George...

New FCC Ruling Gives Federal Government Control of 5G Rollout

[Media] New FCC Ruling Gives Federal Government Control of 5G Rollout by Derrick Broze Posted October 29, 2018 As the push towards 5G-powered “Smart” surveillance cities begins across the United States the Federal Communications Commission has approved a new rule...

12 Private Search Engines that Do Not Track You

[Media] 12 Private Search Engines that Do Not Track You By Ashutosh KS Posted October 28, 2018 Private browsing using the supposedly private or incognito modes on your regular browser does not give you the level of privacy you think it does. You might not want to be...

You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads.

[Media] You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads. By Gennie Gebhart Posted October 27, 2018 Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal...

Hold the Front Page: The Reporters are Missing

[Media] Hold the Front Page: The Reporters are Missing By John Pilger Posted October 22, 2018 So much of mainstream journalism has descended to the level of a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission. Subjectivism is all; slogans and outrage are proof enough....

The Game is Rigged: Congress Invites No Consumer Privacy Advocates to its Consumer Privacy Hearing

[Media] The Game is Rigged: Congress Invites No Consumer Privacy Advocates to its Consumer Privacy Hearing By Ernesto Falcon and India McKinney Posted October 20, 2018 The Senate Commerce Committee is getting ready to host a much-anticipated hearing on consumer...

Why The Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone

[Media] Why The Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone by Daisy Luther Posted October 12, 2018 Yesterday, the alternative media purge was boldly advanced in a coordinated effort to silence people who dissent from establishment views. It’s just one...

Pro-Women Groups Keep Independent, Third Party Female Candidates Off Websites

[Social] Pro-Women Groups Keep Independent, Third Party Female Candidates Off Websites by Alexa Mikalaski Posted October 12, 2018 In the lead up to the 2018 midterms, female candidates running as independents and third parties are shockingly under-represented by...

The 10 Primary Directives of Mainstream Media

[Spiritual] The 10 Primary Directives of Mainstream Media by Sigmund Fraud Posted October 4, 2018 The circus never stops, and no matter who cries fake news against whom, the fact remains that we have entered the post-truth, post-credibility, post-sanity, post-free...

How To Get Rid Of Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists

[Social] How To Get Rid Of Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists by Caitlin Johnstone Posted September 28, 2018 Are you as sick and tired as I am of all those tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy nutters who express skepticism whenever the kind and beneficent US intelligence...

Google still lets third-party apps scan your Gmail data

[Media] Google still lets third-party apps scan your Gmail data by Kaya Yurieff Posted September 27, 2018 Google is defending its policy to allow third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts, according to a letter made public Thursday. Gmail, which...

Seymour Hersh And The Death Of Journalism

[Media] Seymour Hersh And The Death Of Journalism by James Bovard Posted August 26, 2018 Seymour Hersh won a Pulitzer for My Lai and cracked Abu Ghraib wide open. But this reporter is still a lonely breed. Reporting nowadays rarely penetrates the Leviathan’s armor....

The New York Times as Judge and Jury

[Media] The New York Times as Judge and Jury By Joe Lauria Posted September 25, 2018 We’ve seen it before: a newspaper and individual reporters get a story horribly wrong but instead of correcting it they double down to protect their reputations and credibility—which...