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Tag Archives: Media Literacy
Why Journalism is Going Extinct
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well Is journalism going extinct? asks The Atlantic in an article of roughly the same name. The numbers are deadly: the grimmest news was from the Los Angeles Times, the biggest newspaper outside of the east coast. The paper announced … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, censorship, corporate news, culture, Deep State, disinformation, Dystopia, Fake News, fascism, Glenn Greenwald, Journalism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Misinformation, MSM, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psyops, Technocracy
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Trans Psycho Threatens to Murder Critics of Ukraine War
Truly, we live in Bizarro World. By Kurt Nimmo Source: Kurt Nimmo On Geopolitics The latest evidence there are mentally diseased Nazi psychopaths on the loose comes from an American—described as “trans” going by the name of Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, formerly … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Authoritarianism, Banderite Nazis, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, corporate media, Deep State, empire, fascism, fascists, geopolitics, imperialism, internationa;l law, Journalism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, NATO, Nazis, propaganda, psychopaths, Psyops, Russia, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, surveillance state, Technocracy, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war
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THE INVERSION: HOW WE HAVE BEEN TRICKED INTO PERCEIVING A FALSE REALITY
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times Let us begin with a story … Human life is a story. And yet it is not one single story. It is an open book full of rich, amazing, powerful, and sometimes dangerous, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, elites, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged Awakening, Consciousness, corporate media, culture, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, psychology, Psyops, Reality, society, Sociology, spirituality
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Saturday Matinee: Bamboozled
By Brian Eggert Source: Deep Focus Review Spike Lee’s Bamboozled begs the question: When does artistic representation stop being a creative force and become something destructive? Released in 2000 to divisive assessments from both critics and audiences, the film raises questions through … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Bamboozled, Cult Film, Damon Wayans, Gillian Iliana Waters, hollywood, Jada Pinkett-Smith, media, Media Literacy, Michael Rapaport, Paul Mooney, racism, Sarah Jones, Savion Glover, Spike Lee, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Tommy Davidson
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Did David Foster Wallace predict the future?
Our world is more dystopian than Infinite Jest By Sarah Ditum Source: UnHerd Infinite Jest is frequently attention-repellent. David Foster Wallace’s brick-sized novel is physically challenging, an 800g book that forces you to flick back and forth to the errata. This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Art, culture, David Foster Wallace, Dystopia, liturature, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology, TikTok, Zoom
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Fauci and the Hagiographical Style of American Journalism
By Justin Hart Source: Brownstone Institute Norah O’Donnell has known Dr. Fauci and his wife for ages: “How are you guys?” she starts her interview with Dr. Fauci for InStyle Magazine where Fauci posed for the most hubris-exuding photo of the pandemic. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, elites, media, Media Literacy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Anthony Fauci, Chef Geoff, Christine Grady, corporate media, Covid-19, elites, InStyle, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, Norah O’Donnell, propaganda
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Silencing Voices for Peace
By W.J. Astore Source: Bracing Views The U.S. Mainstream Media Is Almost Always Pro-War In the “liberal” New York Times today, I saw an article on “Putin’s forever war” that has the following short synopsis: “Vladimir Putin wants to lead Russians into a civilizational … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Uncategorized, war
Tagged activism, Alex Pareene, anti-war, Ashleigh Banfield, censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, corporate news, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Iraq War, Jesse Ventura, Mainstream Media, Matt Taibbi, Media Literacy, MSM, MSNBC, New York Times, Peace, Phil Donahue, propaganda, Russia, Technocracy, Ukraine, war
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The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
By Alfred de Zayas Source: Information Clearing House Deliberate provocations of a nuclear rival, coups d’état, colour revolutions, broken promises, broken treaties, escalation of tensions, demonization, invective, double-standards — all this while asserting adherence to international legal norms and playing innocent … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, media, Media Literacy, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged corporate news, Deep State, Education, empire, Geneva Convention, geopolitics, imperialism, law, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, NATO, Nicolo Machiavelli, nils melzer, propaganda, Psyops, Ukraine, war, Western Media
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