Video Julian Assange addresses what he calls “attacks on all fronts against WikiLeaks,” from a monetary embargo involving some of the world’s largest financial firms to a new Hollywood documentary on WikiLeaks, “We Steal Secrets. Assange Talks About Possible Holder Prosecution By DSWright As Attorney General Holder faces possible perjury charges Julian Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks, discussed his […]
Chris Hedges, Truthdig, joins Thom Hartmann. The AP scandal is just the latest example of an ongoing – and often corporate backed – assault on our most basic democratic rights.
by Dr David Hookes Dear BBC News Your coverage of the alleged poison gas incident, which has led your news bulletins today, is a complete disgrace. You, at the start, concede that the video footage cannot be verified but by the end of the report you are assuming, with NO evidence, that it was most likely the Syrian Government. Pictures […]
Media Lens debunks the BBC’s humanitarian interventionists by Neil Clark It all started in July 2001 when two men, concerned about bias in the corporate news media in the UK, began to send out “media alerts” to a small number of family and friends. Twelve years on and Media Lens—the brainchild of writer David Edwards, a former manager in sales […]
The latest shocking video to emerge from Syria – showing a militant commander carving out the internal organs of a dead regime soldier and proceeding to eat them in front of the camera – has prompted a telling reaction from the Western corporate-controlled news media by Finian Cunningham The Western media have cranked into damage-limitation mode in a pathetically servile […]
Michael Parenti is a political writer, historian, and culture critic. In this talk from 1993 he talks about media consolidation and the top-down control of information (Recorded 17 Oct 1993). From http://www.michaelparenti.org/InventingReality.html How much of what the news media tell us is true, and how does it control our view of the world? In this illuminating, provocative critique of the news media, […]
The tempo of events in Syria has accelerated in recent weeks. The government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies by Shamus Cooke With Obama’s blessing Israel fighter jets recently attacked Syria on three occasions; in one massive air strike […]
By David Cromwell The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25 per cent of the vote where it stood. This led to a deluge of media headlines and stories echoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s gleeful claim of a ‘game changer’ in domestic politics. The Conservatives ended […]
Over the last several years I have watched the rise of an important new intellect on the American scene. Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, has demonstrated time and again the extraordinary ability to reexamine settled issues and show that the accepted conclusion was incorrect by Paul Craig Roberts One of his early achievements was to dispose of the […]
By Steve Rendall “USAID Develops a Bad Reputation Among Some Foreign Leaders,” read a May 7 Los Angeles Times headline, followed by the subhead: The U.S. Agency for International Development doesn’t just offer aid to the poor, it also promotes democracy, which is seen as meddlesome or even subversive. Fighting poverty and spreading democracy–what’s not to like? And so, the […]
Virgin Bitcoin vs Old Hag Pound (E443, ft. Frankie Boyle) In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the currency of an independent Scotland. Max argues that bitcoin will force the banking system to reinvent itself or die, for what can be more of an invisible hand but a cryptologically guarded, invisible currency. In the […]
Syrian Chemical Weapons by David Edwards Last August, Barack Obama told reporters at the White House: ‘We have been very clear to the Assad regime… that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilised. ‘That would change my calculus; that would change my equation.’ This was a clear […]
