Matthew d'Ancona

The Post-Truth Anti-Bullshitters are Just Producing a More Sophisticated Type of Bullshit

According to politics professor Dr James Alexander, the pundits who profess to hate ‘misinformation’ and bang on about ‘post-truth politics’ haven't grasped Hannah Arendt's point that politics is never about truth.
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Russiagate, Corbyn and the Crimes of the Corporate Media

Anti-Russia hysteria reached parodical proportions in the 'mainstream' media in the wake of the Sergei Skripol 'novichok' incident in recent days but what this burlesque spectacle actually reveals is the toxic interdependence between the corporate state and the corporate media - the operative word there being 'corporate' - exposing how they always work together to sweep us all along on a tide of fast-rising nationalistic fervour into the next geopolitically convenient conflict.