By Rick Sterling | Consortium News | July 27, 2017 The U.S.-government-supported Public Broadcasting System (PBS) recently ran a five-part series dubbed “Inside Putin’s Russia”. With a different theme each night, it purports to give a realistic look at Russia today. The image conveyed is of a Russia that is undemocratic with widespread state repression, […]
The US government supported Public Broadcasting System (PBS) recently ran a five part series dubbed “Inside Putin’s Russia”. With a different theme each night, it purports to give a realistic look at Russia today. The image conveyed is of a Russia that is undemocratic with widespread state repression, violence and propaganda. Following are significant distortions and falsehoods in the five part documentary.
By Thomas S. Harrington | CounterPunch | June 12, 2017 I just can’t believe what happened in the British elections. I can’t get over the fact that that when a politician with real convictions honed over 40 years of political life—generous and forward-looking convictions rooted in an understanding of how social progress for the many […]
An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz.
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“You lose all feeling. You become immune to everything,” says Sam Caison, a prisoner who has been in and out of solitary confinement. “You’re not the same after spending so much time by yourself in those conditions. I don’t care who you are, you don’t come out the same person.”
Thought control, Oscars so what and CERN-inspired psych rock + this day in history w/Grey Tuesday and our song of the day by His Name Is Alive on your Morning Monarchy for February 24, 2017.
Part 1: Introduction By B. J. Sabri | American Herald Tribune | November 11 ,2016 For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of […]
By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep In America | October 6, 2016 If anything was made clear during the Vice Presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence it’s that neither man knows much about the Iranian nuclear program. And neither do the fact-checkers tasked with judging the candidates’ own statements about it. During the […]
physicsandreason – March 3, 2016 Why can’t the experts demonstrate the force behind the motion?
By Ben Schreiner | Dissident Voice | January 25, 2016 The fact that a majority of Americans support a single-payer, or Medicare for all, health care system is not news. Or at least it ought not to be news, especially to veteran political journalists. But enter the vaunted PBS Newshour, which bills itself as “one of […]
