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Why the media don’t want to know the truth about the Nord Stream blasts
First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role By Jonathan Cook Source: Jonathan Cook Blog No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie … Continue reading
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Tagged black ops, CIA, corporate media, Deep State, Dennis Kucinich, empire, geopolitics, Germany, imperialism, Mainstream Media, NATO, Nord Stream, NSC, propaganda, Russia, Seymour Hersh, State Terror, Technocracy, the new york times, Ukraine, war
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Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy,” wrote Douglas Valentine in his important book, The CIA As Organized Crime. This is true. The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged alternative media, CIA, corporate media, Facebook, Mainstream Media, media, MEdia Gatekeepers, Operation Mockingbird, propaganda, Psyops, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Media, the new york times
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Media Responds With Apathy, Disappointment as US-Backed Coup Gov’t Concedes Defeat in Bolivia
Across the spectrum, corporate media has endorsed last year’s rightwing takeover of Bolivia, refusing to label it as a coup. Coverage of Sunday’s historical elections hasn’t been much better. By Alan Macleod Source: Mint Press News Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged BBC, Bolivia, Carlos Mesa, CNN, corporate media, David Choquehuanca, empire, Evo Morales, geopolitics, imperialism, Jeanine Añez, Luis Arce, Mainstream Media, MAS, media, Media Literacy, Movement to Socialism, propaganda, the new york times, The Washington Pos
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‘Confirmed’ Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Last week Politico published a major exclusive report that the “Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa” in retaliation for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year, citing (you guessed … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, anonymous government officials, Charlie Savage, CIA, corporate media, Dave DeCamp, Donald Trump, geopolitics, Gordon Lubold, John Hudson, Lana Marks, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, Nahal Toosi, Natasha Bertrand, Politico, propaganda, Russia, Taliban, the new york times, The Washington Post, Western Media
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RAY McGOVERN: Catapulting Russian-Meddling Propaganda
By Ray McGovern Source: Consortium News The fresh orgy of anti-Russian invective in the lickspittle media (LSM) has the feel of fin de siècle. The last four reality-impaired years do seem as though they add up to a century. And no … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Schiff, Carter Page, corporate news, Crowdstrike, Donald Trump, FBI, geopolitics, Internet Research Agency, John Durham, Kevin Clinesmith, Mainstream Media, Mueller Report, propaganda, Robert Mueller, Robert Parry, Russia, RussiaGate, Spygate, the new york times
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Russiagate’s Last Gasp
By Ray McGovern Source: Consortium News On Friday The New York Times featured a report based on anonymous intelligence officials that the Russians were paying bounties to have U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan with President Donald Trump refusing to do anything about … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, CIA, corporate media, Crowdstrike, Deep State, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, propaganda, Psyops, Russia, RussiaGate, Scott Ritter, the new york times, the Taliban, US Foreign Policy, war
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