Russia Today (rt.com), Untimely thoughts (blog), By Peter Lavelle In my work presenting RT’s CrossTalk discussion program, I am often dismissed as part of a Kremlin propaganda project – sometimes by people who have never even watched the channel. My employer and my work are evidently an affront to the […]
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There is a widespread, ongoing government-corporate attack of Freedom of Speech on the Internet. A Map of the Internet At the same time, spying on Americans via the Internet has become big business. One of the most important videos we’ve posted in a long time. Video: https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/814.html
1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past 8. […]
Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17624 Part II: A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010 Abstract In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account. Increasingly, the issue is treated as a scientific controversy […]
By Chris Hedges Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols in “The Death and Life of American Journalism” argue correctly that the old models for delivering the news are dead. They see the government as the savior of last resort. The authors cite the massive postal and printing subsidies that lasted […]
Jonathan Cook argues that conflict of interest, in the sense of being immersed in, and having a symbiotic relationship with, the Israeli Zionist elite while purporting to be neutral, appears to have become a prerequisite for being a Western media bureau chief or senior editor in Israel. ”Like the crime […]
Unplug the Signal: The Truth Will Not Be Televised A flow of information is constantly streaming from the television set; a bombardment of words and pictures. The speed at which this information is communicated makes it easy for the signal to take control, switching the viewer’s brain to stand-by as […]
Mamoon Alabassi compares two “Iraq war” movies, “Avatar” and “Hurt locker”, and argues that, for Iraqis who feel de-humanized by the media, the positive depiction of non-humans in “Avatar” is welcome: “If some humans can relate to the ‘humanity’ of non-humans in fiction, then surely they would find it easier […]