Fake News
Media Lens: The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya
A key function of state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power. Read HERE
Media
Climate Crisis
Media Lens: Climate collapse – The grim silence of our leaders
None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of extreme weather events of the kind that has been devastating lives across the globe this summer. Media Lens is a British media analysis website to scrutinise […]
Fake News
Bryce Greene: Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press chose Propaganda over Journalism
A blow-by-blow account of how the big US media outlets failed utterly in its reporting on the Ukrainian counteroffensive. In ‘Fair.org’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Ramzy Baroud – Epidemic or Revolution: The other side of the West Africa upheaval
With eight governments falling in West and Central Africa since 2020, there might be something deeper behind what’s going on than an “epidemic of coups”, but you wouldn’t know it from Western media narratives. Ramzy […]
EU politics
Marco D’Eramo: Western Pravdas
There is a strong whiff of McCarthyism in The West over the Ukraine war. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – A community-destroying corporation is mounting a massive operation in Scotland
Different communities, in two different countries – one being Scotland the other Italy, and how one corporation is rapaciously damaging them both. Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from […]
Media
Monique Ryan – Going to the mountain for Assange
Later this month I’ll travel to Washington, as part of an Australian Parliamentary delegation, to advocate on behalf of Julian Assange. The Parliamentary delegation includes representatives from across the political colour spectrum. This alliance, unlikely […]
EU politics
Sigrid Melchior, Harald Schumann – Media freedom: can Brussels agree on landmark law to protect Europe’s increasingly at-risk journalists?
Latest developments around attacks on freedom of the press in Europe and the EU Media Freedom Act. In ‘Investigate Europe’. Read the article HERE.
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Europe: Not reading the writing on the wall
The “European Malaise” is simply the inability of Europe’s neo-liberal political class to comprehend the current geopolitical and economic reality. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and […]
Corruption
Peter Oborne – The Telegraph sale: The UAE bid is a risk to press freedom
The United Arab Emirates, which ranks 119th in the world press freedom index, might buy one of the UK’s most influential newspapers. Peter Oborne is a British journalist and commentator. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye […]