Media Cog

Fake News: The Collapse of the MSM’s ‘Facebook Russian Bot’ Story

As 21WIRE said last year, the Russian hacking, or Russiagate story was a political hoax from the start. What this story can now demonstrate, is that for the last 18 months, the entire mainstream media has been promulgating a highly politicised, and relentless campaign of fake news designed to implicate Russia in an imaginary scandal.

Victims of Rashideen Betrayed & Politicized by Western Media, Exploited by the White Helmets – Part One


The Badawi family. Victims of the Rashideen suicide car attack. Interviewed by Vanessa Beeley July 2017 (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
“They sieged us, starved us, mocked us and then tempted our children with potato chips before blowing them up. Have they no heart?”

EXPLAINED: The West’s NGO ‘Human Rights’ Scam

Just look around the world and throughout recent history, and you will find a number of compelling cases where western-backed NGOs have frequently acted as enablers for the military interventions, sanctions and economic blockades that followed. Look at Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iran and Sudan – all were given the ‘human rights’ treatment prior to aggressive western actions. In most cases, claims of human rights violations and exaggerated atrocity reports preceded western action.

MSM Fake News: How Washington Post Sexed-up its ‘Facebook Russian Bot’ Conspiracy

This is a story about how once trusted mainstream media outlets like Washington Post and the New York Times have used their vast platforms to distort reality and spread disinformation en masse – to both the American and global public. It’s also a story about a new “excuse industry” which has sprung up to medicate Hillary Clinton’s tragic defeat.

U.S. Outraged at RT for Daring to ‘Question More’

US mainstream media and extremist Neoconservative fundamentalists in Washington are now stepping-up their attacks on RT, claiming that the Russian English language international broadcaster is spreading ‘dangerous’ ideas. The American establishment are now desperate as ever to shoot down the popular foreign media outlet under the pretext that Russia is a threat to the western civilization.