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Tag Archives: investigative journalism
Big Media: Selling the Narrative and Crushing Dissent for Fun and Profit
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The profit-maximizing Big Tech / Big Media Totalitarian regime hasn’t just strangled free speech and civil liberties; it’s also strangled democracy. The U.S. has entered an extremely dangerous time, and the danger … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Approved Narrative, Big Media, Big Tech, censorship, circular sources, civil liberties, corporate media, free speech, investigative journalism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Consolidation, Media Literacy, Official Narrative, propaganda, ProporNot, shadow banning, Social Media, Technocracy, terms of service, Totalitarianism
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Remembering Investigative Journalist Robert Parry
By Norman Soloman Source: TheRealNews.com After Robert Parry died on January 27, I asked another great investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, for some words. “I ran into Bob more than three decades ago when he was the first to warn of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, CIA, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Geopolitics, History, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, society, State Crime
Tagged alternative media, CIA, Consortium News, corporate news, independant news, investigative journalism, Iran-Contra, Mainstream Media, Robert Parry, Russia, RussiaGate, Seymour Hersh, State Crime, Ukraine
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Who’s Afraid of Conspiracy Theory?
By Tim Hayward Source: Tim Hayward’s Blog ‘Conspiracy theory’ is frequently used as a derogatory term, a term of disdain and implicit criticism. An effect of this is to discourage certain kinds of legitimate critical inquiry. But surely, in a … Continue reading
Hastings Suspected Car Tampering
“Just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you.” -Kurt Cobain (paraphrasing Joseph Heller) Via: La Weekly: He came to believe his Mercedes was being tampered with. “Nothing I could say could console him,” Thigpen says. One night in … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, media, news, NSA, Uncategorized
Tagged assassination, black ops, investigative journalism, media, Michael Hastings, NSA
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