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Naomi Oreskes: All good myths have a kernel of truth. The other title: MAGA: You’ve been played. In her book: The Big Myth, How American Business Taught us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market she researched the history of the source of the position and ideology of “Free Market” capitalism void of regulation. It came out of her work researching big tobacco and climate change for her book: Merchants of Doubt. The short of the...

On Twitter, it makes me a little uncomfortable that some people seem to follow the trials and tribulations of the Russian army with the same sort of glee that they watch a rival sports team lose a streak of games. But I’m not surprised that partisanship bleeds over into jingoism. What does surprise me is the credulousness and enthusiasm with which so many people greet news that the Russian invasion is the result of bumbling leaders, inept bureaucracies, and hoodwinked soldiers. Yesterday...

On Twitter, it makes me a little uncomfortable that some people seem to follow the trials and tribulations of the Russian army with the same sort of glee that they watch a rival sports team lose a streak of games. But I’m not surprised that partisanship bleeds over into jingoism. What does surprise me is the credulousness and enthusiasm with which so many people greet news that the Russian invasion is the result of bumbling leaders, inept bureaucracies, and hoodwinked soldiers. Yesterday...

Warning: This is a rant. But it is a pretty good one.Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistThe Official Bad Guy Of The Day: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone

This has become the m.o. of corporate media. It's progressed beyond propaganda to gaslighting."Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"Tax Research UKAre we all being gaslighted by the government?Richard Murphy | Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London; Director of Tax Research UK; non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics, and a member of the Progressive Economy Forum

Why I don't link to the NYT, The Vineyard of the SakerThe Terrorists Among US10| The IO Echo Chamber Scott Shane Joel Harding George EliasonSee alsoNot just the Times.Ray McGovernQuick! Someone Tell Amy Goodman What Actually Happened – and Didn’t Happen – in Ukraine 5 Years Ago

Did you know that your favorite troll may be an intel agent? Craig Murray BlogHow To Spot A Twitter Troll Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee See alsoThe American CeonservativeThe Tulsi Effect: Forcing War Onto the Democratic Agenda Major Danny Sjursen, US Army (retired) For decades, freedom and democracy have been part of the U.S. brand. That doesn’t appear to hold true any longer, at least not in established democracies.A...

This is part one in an investigation into government-funded, opposition-linked NGOs that pose as impartial monitors and investigators of the Syrian conflict. More on propaganda, disinformation, and the information wars as tools in hybrid warfare.The Gray ZoneBehind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an opposition front group became Western media’s go-to monitor Max Blumenthal

Bingo!By "propaganda" Caitlin Johnstone means "narrative control."Maintaining narrative control was relatively easy prior to the Internet and social media. Now, the process has turned to access and exclusion as the means of censorship through control of the media and social media in particular. Access and exclusion have always been a reality in the case of print media. Now this is being extended to digital platforms. Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistPropaganda Is The Root Of All Our...

Big. The "official" narrative is unraveling. Caitlin Johnstone.comCONFIRMED: Chemical Weapons Assessment Contradicting Official Syria Narrative Is AuthenticCaitlin Johnstone