By Helen Buyniski | RT | January 19, 2021 Determined to stamp out ‘wrongthink’ in all forms, the media establishment has declared a holy war against free speech. Once the bedrock of US society, it faces a redefinition into something more convenient – or oblivion. If everyone is permitted to speak freely, their reasoning goes, […]
New buzzwords in the mainstream media bubble spell trouble for those outside it By Kit Knightly | OffGuardian | January 16, 2021 Part of the main duty of OffGuardian is to troll through the masses of media output and try and pick up patterns. Sometimes the patterns are subtle, a gentle urging behind the paragraphs. […]
By Stephen Lendman | January 16, 2021 Big Brother is no longer fiction. It hasn’t been for some time, notably post-9/11, what I earlier called the mother of all state-sponsored false flags. What’s going on in the US and West includes mass surveillance and growing online censorship of content diverging from the official narrative. It’s […]
By Stephen Lendman | January 12, 2021 Big media cheerlead preemptive wars, support corporate predation, and are indifferent toward world peace, equity, justice, the rule of law, and well-being of ordinary people. They’re press agents for wealth, power and privilege, hostile toward governance serving everyone equitably. What democracy is supposed to be, they scorn, supporting […]
By Stephen Lendman | January 7, 2021 The self-styled newspaper of record has been hostile toward Trump since he announced his candidacy for president in 2015. The broadsheet’s rage greatly intensified after he defeated media darling Hillary. It continued virtually daily throughout his time in office — largely for invented reasons, ignoring most important ones. […]
The U.S. media demands inflammatory claims be accepted with no evidence, while hacking behavior routinely engaged in by the U.S. is depicted as aberrational. By Glenn Greenwald | December 23, 2020 To justify Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss to Donald Trump, leading Democrats and their key media allies for years competed with one another to depict […]
[While I wish to bring a solid basis of objective information front-and-center, this piece is a speculative opinion piece and ought to be treated as such. – ASH] Over the last ten days, we have seen the slow, inexorable passage of the Constitutionally-based American election process. That process is horribly compromised this year by a […]
By Mark Hemingway | RealClear Politics | December 14, 2020 Hunter Biden announced Wednesday he is under federal investigation for his financial dealings in foreign countries, including China. While the news sent shockwaves through Washington, D.C., it shouldn’t have been surprising. The announcement confirms many of the allegations of corruption that were leveled against Hunter […]
By Jenin Younes | American Institute of Economic Research | December 11, 2020 Lest you were hopeful that some semblance of normal life will return in 2021, either due to the development of vaccines or the pandemic fizzling out on its own, the New York Times and 700 epidemiologists have news for you. An article […]
By Gareth Porter · The GrayZone · December 2, 2020 Israel’s Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics. The Israeli assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is being treated as a triumph of Israeli […]
