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Gaza: The End of the Jewish Joy Ride?
By Michael Lesher Source: Off-Guardian You almost want to feel sorry for Israel’s professional apologists in mainstream media these days. Their job, a fetid one at best, has been especially trying lately. First they assure us that Israel has no … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Anti-Defamation League, anti-semitism, corporate news, COVID, Deep State, Donald Trump, empire, Ethnic Cleansing, fascism, Gaza, Genocide, Genocide Joe, geopolitics, Gloria Steinem, Israel, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, Palestine, police state, propaganda, US Foreign Policy, Zionism
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HOW THE WESTERN MEDIA HELPED BUILD THE CASE FOR GENOCIDE IN GAZA
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters. By Jonathan Cook Source: Declassified UK The past five months have been clarifying. What was … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Anat Schwartz, BBC, corporate news, Deep State, empire, Ethnic Cleansing, fascism, Flour Massacre, Gaza, Genocide, geopolitics, Global Elites, Hamas, imperialism, Israel, Mainstream Media, mass starvation, Neoliberalism, New York Times, Normal Finkelstein, Palestine, Pramila Patten, propaganda, Psyops, UNRWA, US Foreign Policy, Western Media, Zionism
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Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn’t Enough — We’ve Got To Open Our Hearts As Well
Humanity doesn’t just need to escape from the mental prison of imperial indoctrination. It needs to escape from the heart prison as well. By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Humanity doesn’t just need to escape from the mental prison of imperial … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, culture, Empire, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged activism, Compassion, Consciousness, culture, empire, Indoctrination, Knowledge, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Psyops, society, Sociology, spirituality
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The Language of Force: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, COVID, Dystopia, fascism, free speech, Human Rights, law, Militarization, Militarized Police, police state, press freedom, propaganda, protest laws, Technocracy, tyranny, William O. Douglas
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A Low-Trust Society Is an Impoverished Society
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions. It’s not exactly news that social trust has declined significantly in the United States. Surveys find … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Cartels, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, elites, empire, financial crisis, low-trust society, Managerial Class, Monopolies, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psyops, Roman Empire, social trust, society, war
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BANNING TIKTOK IS NOT ABOUT FIGHTING CHINA, IT’S ABOUT PROTECTING WESTERN NARRATIVES AND ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
By Timothy Aleander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News The US government claims that TikTok is a national security threat because China can collect data on its users for “intelligence gathering.” Give me a break! The House of Representatives passed a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Anti-Defamation League, censorship, China, corporate media, Gaza, Genocide, geopolitics, Israel, Jewish Federations of North America, Mainstream Media, media, Palestine, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Media, Steven Mnuchin, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Tik Tok
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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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