Fake News
HuffPost: Monsanto’s Spies
The agri-chemical giant has a storied history of using shady tactics to attack critics and influence the media. Read here
Fake News
Austerity
Jonathan Cook – Guilt of Anti-Semitism Now Needs No Evidence
Forget Brexit, if you really want to understand what is currently happening in British politics, no one explains it better than Jonathan Cook. And do not be surprised it you find yourself repeatedly muttering “This […]
Austerity
Jonathan Cook – Britain: The Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power
This may be long, but is simply an excellent political analysis. What is happening with Jeremy Corbyn is how a progressive candidate is attacked by mainstream media trying to discredit his reputation so that they […]
EU politics
Morning Star: France deploys ‘fake news’ against the Gilets Jaunes – and fails
As soon as the first reports were up, the whole affair made no sense. For any journalist all the warning signals should have been up. Still, the mainstream media put it out without checking the […]
Austerity
Renegade Inc: Myth Busting the European Dream featuring Mathew D. Rose
Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel: Corporate Media Attacks on Corbyn & AOC Resemble State of Permanent Coup!
Russia Today speaks to Dr Jason Hickel, who serves on the Labour Party task force on international development, on inequality, a Green New Deal, his new book ‘The Divide’, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn and […]
Corruption
Jonathan Cook – Anti-semitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party
E While Russia and Putin paranoia is proving unsuccessful in drawing attention away from the nefarious effects of neo-liberalism in the EU and the centrist parties are cosying up to populists and neo-fascism (or simply […]
EU politics
The Local fr: ‘They tell nothing but lies’: France’s ‘yellow vests’ reveal their hatred of the media
The two most effective state weapons against democracy are the police and the media. As Serge Halimi wrote in his billiant article Forgotten France rises up (read here) French journlaists have been warned ‘Journalists must […]
EU politics
Mohamed Elmaazi and Max Blumenthal – Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda: The Integrity Initiative and the UK’s Scandalous Information War
A good piece of research. It is becoming ever clearer where this is heading. Only an academic could raise the question of legality. First the facts – and we are onlyat the beginning. Read here
EU politics
Daily Record: Institute for Statecraft’s Integrity Initiative
In state and commercial media we are constantly bombarded with reports of purported fake news being launched by the Russians. Here is a clear case, where Britain’s own government spooks are doing exactly this to […]