Fake News
Vidya Krishnan: Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism
Israel’s war on Gaza has exposed the true nature and purpose of Western media. Read HERE
Media Influence
Geopolitics
Caitlin Johnstone – The War On Journalism In Belmarsh, The War On Journalism In Gaza
The systematic attempt to terminate freedom of the press in the West Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter. Cross-posted […]
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – Why is the real story of October 7 off-limits to western, but not Israeli, media?
Israeli army ‘ethics’ chief says crimes committed by soldiers against Israel’s own civilians are ‘horrifying’. How is this not newsworthy for British journalists? Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, […]
EU politics
Nordic Times – Swedish peace researcher: “Only war-mongering voices given space in public debate”
Frida Stranne, a PhD in peace and development studies, is deeply saddened by the climate of debate in Sweden, where she believes only militaristic and pro-NATO profiles are given space in the public debate, and […]
Fake News
Heikki Patomäki – Hate speech and the state of public debate in Finland
A professor and freedom of speech in the firing line. Edited by Toimitus and Mauno Saari Cross-posted and translated from Naapuriseura Professor and researcher of international politics Heikki Patomäki discussed the historian Emil Kastehelmen in […]
Fake News
Caitlin Johnstone – Westerners Have An Absolutely Psychotic View Of Airstrikes
Is this really psychotic behaviour or simply a fascist and racist mind-set? Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter. Cross-posted […]
Geopolitics
John Rees – Israel’s War on Gaza Has Exposed the Conformism of the Western Media
‘As Israel wages war on the Palestinian people, Western media outlets have not delivered the sharp analysis that the situation demands.’ In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Media
Henry Giroux – The Politics of Emergency Time and the Emerging Threat of Fascism
Language has lost its ability to awaken consciousness under the suffocating weight of the spectacle and the crazed vocabulary of demagogues. We are seeing a slide into a fascist politics that portends the death of […]
Geopolitics
John Pilger – There is a war coming, shrouded in propaganda
John Pilger’s final essay investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the world’s two greatest powers draw closer to conflict. In his final published essay, John Pilger, who […]
Media
Chris Dillow – Being a news avoider
Is “bias against understanding” in state and corporate media a problem of journalism or a policy coming from the top? Unfortunately the latter. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at […]