Fake News
Caitlin Johnstone: Mass Media Is The Enemy Of The People Like The Cage Is The Enemy Of The Bird
There is not much to say about this piece. It speaks so powerfully for itself. Read here
Fake News
EU politics
The Real News – Is Jeremy Corbyn’s “anti-Semitism Crisis” a Smear Campaign? (Pt. 1/2)
“What is happening now is exactly what was happening in Nazi Germany in the 1930s”. No, not the National Front, but the Labour Party. Really? Beside corporate Media and supporters of Israel, no one seems […]
Climate Crisis
Simon Wren-Lewis: How BBC balance and bad think tanks discourage evidence based policy
The United Kingdom is waking up to a serious problem: Not only are their media hopelessly biased in its support of reactionary politics, but they are using think tanks that are being paid by the […]
Fake News
James Ball: It’s time to ditch the term ‘fake news’
It is amazing how quickly terms such as populism and fake news are suddenly omnipresent, yet undefinable because they are use in contradictory connotations: Trump and Sanders are labelled populists, but that is probably the […]
Austerity
Jorge Uxó and Nacho Álvarez – The myth of Spanish economic recovery
The EU has not had many successes in the past decade. In such times one has to fabricate these, as here in the case of Spain. Nacho Álvarez is associate professor at the Autonomous University […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis – How the media forgot about the financial crisis and embraced austerity
This is a topic that Wren-Lewis has been pursuing himself for years: following the Great Financial Crisis British corporate Media changed the discourse from the irresponsibility of banks , to one of fiscal prodigality by […]
Fake News
Renegade Inc. – Modern day propaganda
Many people have become increasingly skeptical of half-truths in the mainstream media that help to promote foreign policy objectives abroad. When alternative narratives are brought to our attention, the only option for the establishment is […]
Fake News
Ian Sinclair – The propagandistic nature of the liberal media: Interview with Florian Zollmann
A new study exposes in forensic detail how Western newspapers have in recent years applied journalistic double standards to reporting human rights abuses, from Yugoslavia and Iraq to Libya and Syria. Ian Sinclair interviews Dr […]
Fake News
Open Democracy – George Osborne’s London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others – for £3 million
How many articles, commentaries, and other media reports were we confronted with concerning “fake news”? No one mentioned “bought news”, which is a greater menace. The goal of corporate media is profit. Those paying for […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: Momentum campaigning brought in votes – but Labour needs more
Despite corporate media’s attempt to depict the recent election in England as a defeat for Labour (it may not have been a landslide victory, but if Labour has won many seats and the Tories lost […]