Patrick Lawrence: University—An Attack on Intelligence
Will someone explain why we hear daily about all this antisemitism but cannot see anything of it more than the odd, unalarming case—the everyday here-and-there variety? Someone, anyone?
Glenn Greenwald: Matt Taibbi on How “Free Speech” Turned Into a “Far Right” Slogan
Is Big Tech independent? How and why the mainstream corporate media (MSM) is establishment and what that means.
Caitlin Johnstone: When the Imperial Media Report on an Israeli Massacre
The only difference between our propaganda and the propaganda of a ruthless dictatorship is that the people who live under a dictatorship know they are being fed propaganda, whereas westerners are trained to believe they are ingesting impartial factual reporting.
What Media? Alternatives to Mainstream Corporate Media and where to find them.
Alternative news sources and journalists to the Mainstream Corporate Media (MSM). A long list and where to find them, but not definitive.. Do your own exploring. There's a wealth of opinion and information with research, analysis, and fresh approaches by experienced journalists and commentators.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine
Ukraine is a giant advertisement for weapons of mass slaughter, and the cost of that corporate ad is not money but human blood.
The Lies of War Can Be Ended by Truth, by Amy Blumenshine
While the perpetrators of those war crimes were never charged, Assange, the publisher of the documentation revealing them, faces a possible U.S. prison sentence of 175 years in what will effectively be solitary confinement. Free Speech, Free Julian Assange!
The Most Censored Stories of the Year, Rising Up with Andy Lee Roth
The Most Censored Stories of the Year BY SONALI KOLHATKAR YES Magazine December 8, 2023 Each year, Project Censored publishes its annual survey of independent journalism, State of the Free Press, consisting of stories that corporate news media failed to cover or badly misrepresented. Project Censored, whose mission is to “expose and oppose news censorship and … promote independent investigative More
Massie, the Squad JOIN FORCES To DEMAND Biden Drop Charges Against Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
“We clearly have deep concerns about Mr Assange's case,” said the congressman. "People should understand that the charges against him are part of an alarming Global Trend, a sharp increase in attacks against the freedom of the press that is happening in countries around the world including our own."
Matt Taibbi: Dao Prize Acceptance Speech and Interview with Glenn Greenwald
Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger and I win the inaugural Dao Prize for excellence in investigative journalism, for the Twitter Files reports. Dao Prize Acceptance Speech MATT TAIBBI / Racket News / November 2, 2023 I was a little nervous in Washington last night, so my speech didn’t come out exactly like this, but this More
The Censorship Hydra, by Matt Taibbi
The Censorship Hydra (Or Amy Klobuchar Sucks) By Matt Taibbi Substack October 26, 2023 Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) If you read this morning’s Racket article about Senator Amy Klobuchar’s letter to Jeff Bezos asking for “proactive measures” to suppress sites like Substack or Rumble, you probably gathered I’m in a mood. I’ve had it. Whether it’s NewsGuard slapping More
Rumble faces consequences for refusing UK’s demand to ban Russell Brand, by Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald addresses more attempts to control independent voices on the internet that are not part of the closed propaganda system, this time on Rumble. https://youtu.be/CzIDVjduO5E?si=cfQef8ihMb99rSz6 Editor's note: Such attempts were made in England before when the poet William Blake was charged with sedition in 1803 for saying "Damn the King. The soldiers More
Patrick Lawrence: Bad Faith and Blank Checks
All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows. Bad Faith and Blank Checks By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News ScheerPost September 6, 2023 byEDITOR An embedded civilian journalist taking photographs of U.S. soldiers in Dana, More