Media
Responsible Statecraft: A case study in American propaganda
Here’s a joke I recently heard a Russian tell: A Russian is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, “So what brings you to the […]
Media Concentration
Fake News
Thomas Klikauer – The Tabloidisation of Newspapers
Tabloids, the scouge of truth and democracy Thomas Klikauer teaches at the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has over 600 publications including a book on the AfD. Photo: Bobbie Johnson licensed […]
Media Concentration
Maurice Stucke – Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why the practices of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in. Hint: Current proposals are unlikely to work. Maurice […]
Media
Consortium News: PayPal Backs Down After Outpouring of Support for CN
Paypal at it again. They did this to us round three months ago. Payments were finally restored although other payments never came through. They never explained why they did this. Read Here
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – Elon Musk isn’t a threat to society’s health. All billionaires are
The mega-rich buy up media outlets precisely because a lie is more likely to fly than the truth – including the lie that they are invaluable Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in […]
Finance
Maurice Stucke: Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. Read Here
Media
Robert Reich: Why Elon Musk has blocked me on Twitter (and now owns the joint)
This isn’t about freedom of speech. It’s about power. Read Here So let me get this straight: Elon Musk thinks "cancel culture" undermines democracy and calls himself a "free speech absolutist," but he's threatened to […]
Fake News
Alfred de Zayas – Fake News, Fake History, Fake Law
Fake new is not a subversion of the established system, it is the established system Alfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert […]
Fake News
Renegade Inc.: Alfred de Zayas – Weaponising Our Rights
Many Western organisations urgently need reviving, especially in the face of rising global authoritarianism, the weaponisation of human rights, a failing legacy media and the unintended effects of sanctions. Host, Ross Ashcroft, caught up with […]
Media
Jonathan Cook – Social media giants allow hate speech against Russia but silence Israel’s critics
Silicon Valley’s decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan […]