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Coutts Four Denied Bail, in Prison in Canada for over 500 Days without Trial. Are they Political Prisoners?

Over five hundred and twenty-five days ago, between the evening of February 13 and afternoon of February 14, 2022, four men were arrested for their participation in Freedom Convoy protests at the Alberta border town of Coutts. They were charged with conspiracy to commit murder of police officers in support of a plot to overthrow […]

Barbie Pathologies: It’s All About a Doll

As the ancient Greeks reminded us, bone cold definitions as starting points are essential in any discussion.  One current discussion, insignificant to posterity but amusing for advertisers and the presently bored, is the ludicrous reactions to a plastic doll rendered into celluloid form.  And as a doll, it can be no other.  Mattel’s Barbie has […]

WATCH: Tell-Lie-Vision

How has television been used as a vehicle of propaganda? What psychological techniques are deployed in media manipulation? What is the future of media? Join James Corbett for this important edition of The Corbett Report podcast on the past, present and future of television, media and brainwashing. >h6>Sources, shownotes and download options are available here. …

N.Y. Post: Biden’s Potemkin Presidency Sham

New York Post, July 26, 2023 Aides and the press have created a Potemkin presidency, hiding if Joe Biden is up to it     Biden Potemkin Presidency Collapse By James Bovard President Biden is merely pretending to do his job. But will the charade collapse before he can finagle another election victory? In czarist Russia, […]
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How Deceitful ‘News’-Media Are

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On July 24th, a new law passed unanimously in Israel’s legislature that will enable a 50% vote of the legislature — Israel’s Knesset — to nullify a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court. On that same day, The Week magazine headlined “Critics worry a controversial new law will trigger a constitutional […]

Episode 448 - Tell-Lie-Vision

How has television been used as a vehicle of propaganda? What psychological techniques are deployed in media manipulation? What is the future of media? Join James for this important edition of The Corbett Report podcast on the past, present and future of television, media and brainwashing.
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How opinion polls limit debate on UK foreign policy: interview with Lillah Fearnley

How opinion polls limit debate on UK foreign policy: interview with Lillah Fearnleyby Ian SinclairMorning Star6 July 2023 In May, Rethinking Security, a network of UK-based organisations, academics and activists working for a just and peaceful world, published a major new report Thinking Inside The Box: How Opinion Polls Shape Security Debates And Policy In […]

The BBC Falls for Murdoch’s Bait

It should be called for what it is.  The recent apoplectic, lurid coverage of what was, at best, a matter for a corporation’s human resources department dominating several news cycles even as drownings continued in the Mediterranean, war continued being waged in Ukraine and climate change continued issuing ominous reminders of its existence. The issue […]

How & Why News-Media Censorship Soared with Covid-19

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) In June 2019, before covid-19 struck, the British Government’s BBC secretly organized many of the major news-media in the U.S.-and-allied world, into an organization they called the “Trusted News Initiative” (TNI), which they first publicly announced to the world on 7 September 2019, under the headline “New collaboration steps up […]

The Flawed Moral Logic of the New York Times on the Flawed Moral Logic of Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

On Monday the New York Times argued in favor of continuing the war and supplying weapons for the war in Ukraine but not cluster bombs: However compelling it may be to use any available weapon to protect one’s homeland, nations in the rules-based international order have increasingly sought to draw a red line against use […]