EU politics
Save Your iInternet: Filternet
Explains the new internet law, Article 13. that corporate media is trying to purchase at the EU. Informative , yet with humour and charm – takes a moment to get going. The European Union […]
Media Concentration
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
Corruption
The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Andrea Capussela has a tale to tell – and he does it well. This book could not have appeared at a more opportune moment as it seeks to illuminate […]
Media
Tom Mills – We need Democratic Media, not State Media
Europe needs democratic media, not state media. The case made by Tom Mills is relevant for most state media in Europe. State media has become synonymous with established political parties and business interests, alienated, when […]
Austerity
John Weeks – Free markets and the decline of democracy
What is the source of the 21st century tendency to authoritarianism? The central purpose of neoliberal re-regulation is to remove economic policy from control by representative democracy. John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of […]
EU politics
New Economics Foundation – The rise of the data oligarchs
There are troubling signs that the new data-driven economy is inheriting all the same problems as the old one: power imbalances, monopolies and a lack of accountability. Listen here
Corruption
Academics Against Press Publishers’ Right: 169 European Academics Warn Against It
Once again corporate media has bought itself an EU law. This would be a serious blow for democracy and freedom of the press, only serving corporate financial interest. It is nothing abstract and would radically […]
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 […]