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Tag Archives: independent media
Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now ‘information terrorists’
By Vanessa Beeley Source: Vanessa Beeley Substack A US state department sponsored round table on ‘countering disinformation’ was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. “Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, Deep State, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, NATO, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Alina Lipp, Andrii Shapovalov, corporate media, CRDF, empire, geopolitics, Graham Philips, imperialism, independent media, information terrorists, Mainstream Media, Mass Media, National Cyber Security Cluster, National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, National Security Service Academy, NATO, NGOs, Psyops, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war
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Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
Permanent war requires permanent censorship. By Chris Hedges Source: The Chris Hedges Report No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, CIA, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged CBS, censorship, CNN, Consortium News, corporate news, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, independent media, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, Militarism, NATO, NewsGuard, permanent war, propaganda, Russia, The Daily Caller, The Permanent War Economy, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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Joe Rogan shows us the real purpose of cancel culture
By Kit Knightly Source: Off-Guardian Joe Rogan has just been cancelled. Again. It’s not about covid “misinformation” this time. No, now he’s a racist. Some enterprising young mind combed through 13 years and hundreds of episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged cancel culture, censorship, civil liberties, Covid-19, Donald Trump, free speech, independent media, Joe Biden, Joe Rogan, Justin Trudeau, Neil Young, propaganda, Social Media, society, Spotify, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Professor Michel Chossudovsky: Truthteller Extraordinaire
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain History teaches us that eventually the fog of propaganda, no matter how thick and unrelenting, is dissipated by the sun of truth. Not really: By truthtellers such as Michel Chossudovsky. It often takes … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, internet freedom, media, news, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, civil liberties, Covid-19, Dystopia, fascism, independent media, Iraq War, Michel Chossudovsky, Pandemic, Psy-ops, society, The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis, The Great Reset, Totalitarianism, war on terror
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Social media fact-checking, brought to you by the Deep State
By Daniel Espinoza Source: Off-Guardian Almost four years of mainstream media hype about “fake news” and “Russian meddling” propaganda has brought to the world exactly what they were intended to bring: an effective mechanism for internet and social media censorship. In the center of this move … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Alternative news, Atlantic Council, censorship, CIA, Clayton R. Koppes, corporate media, Facebook, Fake News, Google, Hollywood Goes to War, independent media, Internet, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, NED, Office of War Information, propaganda, Russia-gate, Social Media, the Poynter Institute
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Elite television news rescued by COVID
By Jon Rappoport Source: NoMoreFakeNews.com Yet another consequence of the fake pandemic is the propping up of that doddering old fool, elite television news. The COVID story doesn’t need Walter Cronkite. It only needs wall to wall. From 5AM to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, elites, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alternative news, Authoritarianism, Cable News, censorship, Cognitive Dissonance, coronavirus, corporate news, Covid-19, elites, independent media, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, network news, Oligarchy, Pandemic, propaganda, Television
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The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content
By Alison Rose Levy Source: FAIR.org As Sen. Bernie Sanders (CJR, 8/26/19) has recently noted, corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance. … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged alternative media, bernie sanders, censorship, Comcast, corporate media, culture, environment, Fracking, independent media, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, MSNBC, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, society, TPP
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EMPIRES ARE A SECRET UNTIL THEY START FALLING
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Source: Popular Resistance In the past, we have written about the 2020s as a decade when the United States Empire will end. This is based on Alfred McCoy’s predictions (listen to our interview with him on Clearing the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, Alfred McCoy, Andre Vltchek, corporate media, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, independent media, John Galtung, Joshua Wong, Juan Guaidó, Nuclear War, Sanctions, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, United States, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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