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Caitlin Johnstone — How Plutocratic Media Keeps Staff Aligned With Establishment Agendas

The way I see it there are only two possible explanations for the unanimous consensus in mass media on these issues: Explanation 1: The consensus exists because the mass media reporters are all telling the truth all the time. OR Explanation 2: The consensus exists because there is some kind of system in place which keeps all mass media reporters lying to us and painting a false picture about what’s going on in the world. Those are the only two possibilities, and only one can be true,...

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Caitlin Johnstone — The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department

I saw a recent post by the WikiLeaks Twitter account which referred to the corporate media as “the narrative business pretending to be in the news business,” which is in my opinion a perfect way to phrase it. The real currency of the world is not gold, nor is it bureaucratic fiat, nor even raw military force; it’s narrative control. The ability to control the stories people tell about what’s going on in their world means the ability to control how they think, how they vote, how they behave,...

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Moon of Alabama — Syria – ‘Activist’ Posts Fake Picture – Fact Checkers Fall For It

More MSM fake (Photoshopped) news  exposed. If you are wondering whether The Guardian is also involved, the answer is yes. Morons (anchor bias, confirmation bias) or complicit (propaganda). Hey editors, unanalyzed pictures are no longer evidence. Save yourselves some embarrassment Oh, wait, you already knew that!Moon of AlabamaSyria - 'Activist' Posts Fake Picture - Fact Checkers Fall For ItSee also With its strongly misleading report Reuters, or at least its correspondent in Geneva,...

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Paul Robinson — Living in wacko-land

Reading all this, one feels like one is living in wacko-land. And it’s just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. I read some of this stuff for laughs. Unfortunately, it passes for truth in corporate media and is apparently taken seriously in policy circles. Irrussianality Living in wacko-land Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

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Crispian Balmer — U.S. President Trump facing a ‘coup’: Bannon

Steve Bannon goes there, after being out of the headlines for some time. “What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a direct attack on the institutions,” Bannon said during a flying visit to Italy. “This is a coup, okay”.… “This is a crisis. The country has only ever had such a crisis in the summer of 1862 when General McClellan and the senior generals, all Democrats in the Union Army, deemed that Abraham Lincoln was not fit and not competent to be commander in...

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Craig Murray — Detente Bad, Cold War Good

The entire “liberal” media and political establishment of the Western world reveals its militarist, authoritarian soul today with the screaming and hysterical attacks on the very prospect of detente with Russia. Peace apparently is a terrible thing; a renewed arms race, with quite literally trillions of dollars pumped into the military industrial complex and hundreds of thousands dying in proxy wars, is apparently the “liberal” stance. Political memories are short, but just 15 years after...

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Caitlin Johnstone — This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like

Propagandizing for "liberal" intervention in Iran. Read "imperial" instead of "liberal. Back in December a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration showing how then-Secretary of State, DC neophyte Rex Tillerson, was coached on how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which to attack and undermine noncompliant governments. Politico reports: The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist...

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Why Everything the Western Media Tells You About Venezuela is Lies — Kit Klarenberg interviews Alan MacLeod

Over the course of two tumultuous decades, the US government has determinedly endeavored to destabilize, undermine and ultimately depose the democratically-elected government of Venezuela without pause. First they came for Hugo Chavez, then his successor Nicolas Maduro.One wouldn't be able to discern this iniquitous reality from mainstream Western news reporting, however. Alan MacLeod, an academic specializing in media theory and analysis — and member of Glasgow University's respected Media...

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