David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed ...
The same media that behaved as attack dogs against Trump for four years (unless he was carrying out aggressive actions abroad) are likely to turn into lap dogs now that there is a Democrat in ...
(David Swanson) If we were to look beyond words to actions, there would be no doubt that virtually all U.S. politicians have, in effect, taken the Trump/Kissinger view of U.S. troops for as long as ...
Forbes has published two back-to-back articles about the analysis of retired Navy captain and political scientist Bradford Dismukes titled “To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy” and “If Russia Invades Europe, NATO Could Sweep The ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Julian Assange’s partner Stella Moris was able to visit him with their children at Belmarsh prison for the first time since March of this year, and reports that his physical condition has deteriorated ...
“If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~ Julian Assange “That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.” ~ P C Hodgell (Caitlin Johnstone) Human life ...
“The influence that Russia, China or Iran could exert over public opinion in the United States is a tiny fraction of that which is exerted by the unaccountable US billionaire media every single day” (Caitlin ...
“Powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what’s going on in the world because if the public understood what’s going on in the world, they would rise up and use their strength of numbers to ...
(Let’s Try Democracy) The New York Times claims that Russia offered to pay Afghans to kill U.S. (and allied) troops. It does not claim that any payments were made. It does not claim that any troops were ...
Why vague commitments by fossil fuel corporations to “zero out” carbon emissions don’t add up. Fossil fuel giant Shell took time in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to announce on April 16 that it ...
One year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed ...
Assange’s treatment in the UK’s Belmarsh Prison has been so poor that convicted murderers and other high-security inmates had to stage a mass protest to secure his transfer to the hospital wing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
In something of an ironic twist, the Pentagon, which has a long history of creating fake news, is developing software to detect “falsified media assets.” Concern over the widespread use of “fake or false news” ...
Fox News is “designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.” (By Jen Senko) Offered ...
“They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness.” — John Milton “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom ...
The prevailing orthodoxy of today — an orthodoxy perpetuated by propaganda, PR, the media and the power behind them — is unquestioned obedience to the gods of money, consumerism and perpetual war. I had the ...
Introduction: Fire in the library The national student debt recently hit $1.5 trillion in May 2018, more than doubling from $600 billion just ten years ago. It is difficult to grasp the scale of these numbers. ...
Whoever controls the media controls the narrative. Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Media propaganda has reached a level we have not seen in our nation’s history. Wars are ignored, politicians destroyed and truths ...
The 2016 election was the year of fake news, but fake news is not such a new problem in our country. We take a look back at the congressional testimony of a young Kuwaiti ...
Operation Mockingbird was a CIA program that enlisted more than 400 American journalists, as well as journalists around the world, to manipulate public opinion by spreading propaganda or what we call it today, fake news. ...
Check out this Resistance podcast! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance On this Resistance Podcast. We discuss the Republican party and its shortcomings. We explore the rise of populist autocrats with fascistic tendencies and a patent disdain for ...
Doug McKenty of The Shift was kind enough to invite us on his show last week! We talk with Doug about the deceitful nature of corporate propaganda, waking up to it, and living in a ...
CNN Hired Alleged Al-Qaeda Propagandist For Documentary, Is This Another CNN Cover Up? In June 2017, an American media activist living in rebel-held Syrian territory named Bilal Abdul Kareem expressed frustration with a former ...
If you go to YoutTube and search “White Helmets fake” all sorts of videos and montages come up. The below video is one of the most professionally done compilations of evidence against the White Helmets. The video ...
Critics are calling a BBC video filmed in Syria fake. Judge for yourself. BBC caught a lot of criticism for altering the words of a female doctor in a video report. She is reporting from Atareb ...
If you go to this link you will see a large photo cache of men who are dressed in White Helmet outfits in some pictures and then later dressed in military outfits with armed weapons in ...
A popular image that circulates around in the anti-White Helmets world is a split screen of two images that appear to catch the White Helmets lying on Twitter. If you do an advanced Twitter search ...
Why don’t people questions things in the US? I go over 5 reasons why! It starts with media manipulation and manufacturing consent. Then I talk about misplaced trust in authority figures, fear of backlash (being ...
Should we give the White Helmets a Nobel Peace Prize or are they the propaganda arm of ISIS in Syria? Trying to sort through the mess of information and news these days to find the truth ...
On Tuesday, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the head of America’s European Command, told the House Armed Services Committee that he needs a larger combat force, including an armored division and more warships, to deter Russian forces ...
It’s official your U.S. government is legally allowed to use propaganda on you. In 2013 Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Moderation Act. The act overturned a prohibition in place since 1948 which banned the U.S. from ...
Note this may not be an actual BBC Video but the footage has been seen in multiple outlets. Some are questioning the Hebdo shooting. Additionally a French Police Chief committed suicide hours after he began ...
Great interview by Abby Martin with NYU Professor Mark Crispin Miller about propaganda.
MSNBC Host Admits Media's Job is To "Control What People Think"
A top propaganda firm working for the Pentagon targeted USA Today journalists in a smear campaign intended to discredit the journalists. USA Today most likely became a target after investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors. Multiple social ...
In October of 2014 Udo Ulfkotte admitted in an interview on RT to taking bribes from the CIA and submitting articles that were purposefully pro-US. He claims that, like him, many journalists around the world ...
Beginning in the 1950’s the CIA planted stories in mainstream media to influence public opinion. After the Watergate scandal in the early 1970’s Congress launched a series of Congressional investigations looking into the CIA. Senator ...
A crucial role of the CIA is to keep the public misinformed. Victor Marchetti worked for the CIA for 14 years but eventually became bothered enough by the CIA’s practices to quit and write a ...