US Admits to Pushing Ukraine Into a Fight It Can’t Win
A US “windfall” in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost.
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Author: The CNCL Team
We’re Taught About Liberal And Conservative Bias In Media, But Not US Empire Bias
One of the biggest problems with the urgent push for “media literacy” we’ve been seeing in the west these last few years is that everyone’s being taught about liberal bias and conservative bias in media, but they’re not being taught about US empire bias.
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Across the West, People Are Dying in Greater Numbers. Nobody Wants To Learn Why
There’s only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may uncover
Read More The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.
Read More Another Act of Terror. How the Media Do PR for Biden and Zelensky
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts.
Read More How BBC Coverage Is Enabling Israeli State Violence at Al-Aqsa
Once again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression.
Read More It’s Not Just the Settlers – or Israel – Responsible for the Torching of Huwwara
Endless indulgence from Israel’s supporters in the West has cleared a path to a fascist government intent on ‘wiping out’ Palestinian communities
Read More Caitlin Johnstone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone contemplates the war in Ukraine, corporate media, the U.S. empire and more.
Read More Woke Imperialism
Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.
Read More There Has Never In History Been A Greater Need For A Large Anti-War Movement
❖Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand against its demands for total obedience, namely China, Russia, and Iran.
Read More Blocking Roads Isn’t Crazy – It’s Our Last Hope That Sanity Will Prevail
A lack of public concern in the West at dealing with the impending climate catastrophe isn’t accidental. It’s been engineered.
Read More A Lost Small Town: Running Errands in the Wake of Emotional Violence, USA
An emotional massacre has taken place in these little towns. And now we are expected to act as if — this never happened at all.
Read More Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.
Read More The Official Narrative On Ukraine
If you dispute any part of the official Ukraine narrative, you are an evil monster, and a disinformation agent. Because Vladimir Putin is the same as Adolf Hitler, you are also the same as Neville Chamberlain, and are guilty of the cardinal sin of supporting appeasement.
Read More How the Left Became Cheerleaders for US Imperialism
Figureheads like the Guardian’s George Monbiot have wrecked the left’s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground.
Read More The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
Read More New Zealand’s PM Wants More Online Censorship For The War In Ukraine
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern continued her crusade for the expansion of internet censorship during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, this time using the war in Ukraine.
Read More Silencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works.
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
Read More Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
Read More ‘Genocide of His People Is Complete’: Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner.
Read More Cultivate A Habit Of Small Acts Of Sedition
Written by Caitlin Johnstone It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes...
Read More Behind Rolling Stone’s Hatchet Job on a Psychiatrist Critical of Neoliberal Capitalism
Welcome to the Twilight Zone of the political landscape of psychiatry, where faux-left liberals are clueless that they have unwittingly become right-wingers, where shameless right-wingers exploit anything in an attempt to hold on to their AR-15s, and where anti-authoritarian left critical thinkers know that if they are not careful—or even if they are—they will find themselves being used politically in a repulsive way.
Read More Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
A class-action suit would serve society well. It would put teeth into the legal obligation for doctors to provide “informed consent,” and for a medical discipline to provide society with information that met this standard too.
Read More Capitalism Meets Scientism: A Too Convenient Marriage?
We badly need policy reform to change the approach that led to the vast exaggeration of the pandemic by public health officials, elected officials, and our media.
Read More We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, But We Will Probably Be the Last
As industrial empires became global, their increase in size meant an increase in complexity. Ironically, this complexity makes us more vulnerable to catastrophic collapse, not less.
Read More When the Just Go To Prison
When those who expose the crimes of the state are criminalized and sent to prison, tyranny is inevitable.
Read More The Dawn of the Apocalypse
We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
Read More A People’s History of COVID-19
Listen to The Science! Here is what The Science said…
Read More War with Iran
The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and innumerable war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.
Read More Chomsky & the United Nations Warn of Collapse
It’s entirely possible that doomsayers of the world, though widely ridiculed, could be on target about the prospects for global societal collapse. But, of course, when? According to a recent Noam Chomsky interview, it’s an ongoing grind that will end with a thud.
Read More Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements
The powerful will keep creating the world’s worst problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on.
Read More The Triumph of Death
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
Read More Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet
British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.
Read More Forget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need To Liberate Our Minds
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
Read More Hedges: America’s Gun Fetish
There will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is the only power they have left.
Read More Russia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’
The former president’s confusion over the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine should lead to western soul-searching, not mirth.
Read More They’re Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
We are not being protected by a compassionate alliance of corporations and governments who only want us to know the truth, we are being manipulated and oppressed by an oligarchic empire that wants us to believe lies. That’s why they’re locking up Assange, that’s why they’re censoring the internet, that’s why they’re filling our minds with propaganda, and that’s why we can’t let them win.
Read More Israel’s PR Problem, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Israel’s mounting PR crisis boils down to the fact that its violence and oppression isn’t happening in some far off land as in the case with US wars, it’s happening right at home surrounded by video cameras and enforced by police and soldiers who are not adept PR spinmeisters.
Read More The US Could’ve Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From Nazis
This entire war could have been avoided if the US had simply pledged military protection for Zelensky against the far right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact.
Read More The Persecution of Julian Assange
According to UN torture expert, the UK and US have colluded to publicly destroy the WikiLeaks founder – and deter others from exposing their crimes.
Read More An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Read More Oh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. By taking our control of information out of our hands without asking our permission and determining for us that we are to be a propaganda-based civilization for the foreseeable future, they have stolen something sacred from us. Something they had no right to take.
Read More 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.
Read More They Actually Admitted They’re Lying To You! [News + Comedy with Lee Camp]
The Biden Administration and others have broken from the past and literally admitted they are “manipulating” or inventing various aspects of the war in Ukraine.
Read More The Pimps of War
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
Read More When You Lie It’s Misinformation, When They Lie It’s Cool: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Can’t believe we’ve been watching people lose their social media accounts for posting “misinformation” this whole time only for US officials to come right out and admit that they’ve been running an active disinformation campaign where they knowingly circulate lies about Russia.
Read More Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill
The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.
Read More Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
Read More 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
Read More Twice in a Century: Russia Faces a War of Annihilation
The United States is in the early phases of a war of annihilation against Russia the aim of which is the total destruction of the economy, the culture, the population and the nation.
Read More Twitter Allows Death Threats Against Russians in New Ukraine War Policy
Twitter updated its terms of service to allow users to call for the deaths of Russian politicians and soldiers, due to the war in Ukraine. This comes soon after US Senator Lindsey Graham called for assassinating President Vladimir Putin, and Facebook greenlighted support for Ukrainian Nazis.
Read More Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war.
Read More Former UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening in the Ukraine
UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter provides a concise summary of the geopolitics leading to the current Russia-Ukraine war.
Read More Let’s Re-Learn The Word ‘Detente’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues.
Read More The West’s Hands in Ukraine are as Bloody as Putin’s
If it succeeds, the West’s war machine will continue trundling over the bodies of the poor and marginalized as it drives us ever faster towards ecological collapse.
Read More Russia-Ukraine: Western Media Are Acting As Cheerleaders for War
Right now, we need voices from Russia to understand what Putin thinks and wants, not what the BBC’s “chief international correspondents” think he wants. We need information sources ready to quickly challenge both western and Russian “fake news”. And most of all we need to stop with our racist view of the world, in which we are always the Good Guys and they are always the Bad Guys, and in which our suffering matters and the suffering of others doesn’t.
Read More Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
Censorship escalates dramatically in the West. Anti-war political dissident Lee Camp tweeted Wednesday. “Let it be known – you can do anti-women, anti-trans or racist content on Spotify but you can’t be anti-war. That’s not allowed.”
Read More Has U.S. Imperial Striving Destroyed Our Chances for a Peaceful Multipolar World?
The U.S. government and ‘western’ media claim that the World condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That is however far from reality. It is only true if you believe that ‘the world’ solely exists of the 5-eye spying cooperation (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), the European Union, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore.
Read More Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
You’d think a society devoted to truth and freedom, the kind of society western powers purport to be trying to defend in Ukraine, would not require a Ministry of Truth to protect us from “disinformation” about a government long targeted by the US-centralized empire, or from trying to seek out alternative perspectives beyond the homogeneous blanket of authorized mainstream narratives.
Read More What Came Unstuck in New Zealand? Lessons for the World
In 2020 it was hard to imagine the sorry consequences of Jacinda Ardern’s quaint faith in vaccination as a stand alone solution, but they are all too evident now.
Read More The Single Most Important Question In The World Right Now
There is one question today that is more important than any other question that could possibly be asked, and it’s this: “Is what the US and its allies are trying to accomplish in Ukraine worth continually risking nuclear armageddon for?”
Read More Russia-Ukraine: A Different Invasion, the West’s Same ‘Madman’ Script
Simple-minded media propaganda – like the claim Russia’s Putin is deranged – is precisely what brought us to the crisis over Ukraine.
Read More US Gov’t Knew NATO Expansion to Ukraine Would Force Russia To Intervene
Former US Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns, who is now CIA director, admitted in a classified 2008 embassy cable that NATO expansion to Ukraine crosses Moscow’s security “redlines” and “could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”
Read More Twelve Thoughts on Ukraine
This whole thing could very easily have been avoided with a little bit of diplomacy. The only reason that didn’t happen was it would have meant the US empire taking a teensy, weensy step back from its agenda of total planetary domination.
Read More As Trudeau Cracks Down, the Left Drives Protesters Into the Arms of the Right Once Again
Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution
Read More Why are Most People Cowards? Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism
“Authoritarianism in religion and science, let alone politics, is becoming increasingly accepted, not particularly because so many people explicitly believe in it but because they feel themselves individually powerless and anxious. So what else can one do…except follow the mass political leader…or follow the authority of customs, public opinion, and social expectations?
Read More Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience...
Read More Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is...
Read More The Left’s Radical Shift to Giving Up Bodily and Cognitive Autonomy
The left needs to start insisting again on the critical importance of bodily and cognitive autonomy – and to stop shooting itself in the foot.
Read More Silicon Valley Should Not Restrict Public Discourse About Covid Measures Which Affect Everyone
Twitter has banned the account of controversial virologist Dr Robert Malone, who reportedly had half a million followers at the time of his removal. Malone is credited even by mainstream critics as having played a significant role in the development of the mRNA technology being used for Covid-19 vaccines today.
Read More The Tipping Point (by Infinite Waters)
As the powers that be exert more and more effort to impose fear, social division, and soul-crushing narratives, Ralph Smart invites us to consider the ways our spirits can resist this oppression and turn to love instead. By keeping love steadfastly in the driver’s seat, we find a tipping point into a much more sustainable world drawing steadily nearer.
Read More Relationship Between Vaccination and All-Cause Mortality for the 60+ Cohort in New Zealand
Now is the time to acknowledge the sacrifice of the Covid vaccine injured and make amends. This will involve asking a lot of searching questions within the MoH and the government. It will require a reexamination of cases and data. Certainty was forcefully expressed to the public when science dictated caution.
Read More The Vaccine Moment (part three) Or: How to Think about Klaus Schwab
Written by Paul Kingsnorth / The Abbey of Misrule This is the third and final part of Paul...
Read More The COVID Fear Response and Wider Psychology With Dr Paris Williams: The Plant a Seed Podcast EP 16
In this conversation, Dan and Jono have a conversation with Dr Paris Williams and dive deep into his thoughts about the Covid 19 response in New Zealand and how fear shapes our behavior and the way we think and perceive the world. It’s an authentic look at the government’s response and its effects on the people in NZ.
Read More Have the Government & Ministry of Health Sought To Restrict Public Knowledge of Vaccine Risks?
The government has to face up to the lack of effectiveness and safety of the Pfizer vaccine. It has to come clean with the public. Historically drugs are pulled off the market after 50 associated deaths. In little NZ we are in the hundreds and counting.
Read More A Plant-Based Diet May Lower Severity of COVID-19 Illness by 73 per Cent
Participants who followed plant-based diets had a 73% lower chance of moderate to severe COVID-19 illness, whereas those who followed low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets were 48% more likely to have moderate to severe COVID-19 illness.
Read More Fauci As Darth Vader Of The COVID Wars
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health should be front-page news in all the news media in the US. Instead, it has been met with the proverbial thundering silence.
Read More The Vaccine Moment (Part Two): On Symbol and Story
Paul continues with his theme that the virus is ‘apocalyptic,’ in the sense that it was revealing things previously hidden. One of these things has been the fractured nature of our stories; and that in turn has revealed just how fragile many of our societies are.
Read More We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War
This is so dangerous. This whole two-front nuclear brinkmanship game is so very, very dangerous, and they keep finding ways to make it more dangerous. And hardly anyone notices it, because the news media outlets that people look to to understand the world aren’t telling them it’s dangerous.
Read More Dr Jessica Rose – On Covid Injections for Children
Immunoligist Dr Jessica Rose discussed the recent move to inject increasingly younger children with the Covid vaccines, and the adverse effects to children and to the population in general.
Read More Australian ‘National Treasure’ Cartoonist Michael Leunig Fired – Too Much Truth to Power?
A renowned Australian cartoonist has said he lost his prime spot in a Melbourne-based newspaper after he drew parallels between the Tiananmen Square protests and Covid-19 vaccine mandates in a new cartoon.
Read More Paul Kingsnorth: Why I Changed Sides in the Vaccine Wars
Esteemed activist and ecologist Paul Kingsforth says that the crystallising moment arrived when he woke up to the news that the Austrian government had ‘interned an entire third of the population’. This move, he writes, sent a ‘chill down my spine’.
Read More Covid-19 Injectables: Have You Been Given Proper Informed Consent?
ATTENTION: All providers and recipients of the Covid-19 injections. All individuals have certain inalienable rights: informed consent and bodily autonomy being two of them.
Read More Mass Psychosis: Understanding the Descent into Collective Madness
A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction. Two examples of mass psychoses are the American and European witch hunts 16th and 17th centuries and the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century.
Read More Jacinda Ardern, Science, and Covid Mandates: Events, Facts, and Fallacies
Dr Hatchard provides a unique perspective of the political and scientific decision-making that brought NZ to where it is today: training in physics, logic, statistics, and the scientific method, and extensive conversation with a few of the key players.
Read More The Vaccine Moment (Part One): On the Days of Revelation
Perhaps it’s because I’m English, or perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just blind prejudice, but when I wake to the news that the Austrian government has interned an entire third of its national population as a ‘danger to public health’, a chill runs down my spine.
Read More Netflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date
Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for its American subscribers on October 24th, just three days prior to a significant court date in Assange’s fight against extradition from the UK to the United States on October 27th.
Read More The Great New Normal Purge
Relentless official propaganda demonizing “the Unvaccinated” is being pumped out by the corporate and state media, government leaders, health officials, and shrieking fanatics on social media. “The Unvaccinated” are the new official “Untermenschen,” an underclass of subhuman “others” the New Normal masses are being conditioned to hate.
Read More Why Is There No Debate about ‘Leaky’ Vaccines?
Regardless of our personal beliefs regarding the pros and cons of the Covid vaccines, one issue that affects all of us very much is the unprecedented suppression of dialogue on topics that do not line up with the official narrative, including from those with clear expertise on the topic.
Read More Why Jeff Bezos’ Space Dream is Humanity’s Nightmare
“We’re told that this is for us, this is for planet earth, this is for everyone. No it’s not. This is a billionaires’ game.” – George Monbiot
Read More The Journey of Soul Initiation: An Interview with Bill Plotkin
Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft and The Journey of Soul Initiation, provides guidance for the descent to soul – the dissolution of current identity; the encounter with the mythopoetic mysteries of soul; and the metamorphosis of the ego into a cocreator of life-enhancing culture.
Read More Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists
California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet.
Read More Israel’s Big Lie: This Isn’t Self Defense — It’s a War Crime, Aided and Abetted by the U.S.
Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza are a lie.
Read More Fifteen Thoughts on Palestine
#1 – You don’t get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That’s not a thing.
Read More Irish MP Names the “Elephant in the Room” about Israel
We somehow find ourselves in this extraordinary situation in which it takes enormous courage to call out the last remaining openly apartheid, openly racist state on the Planet (Israel). This Irish MP demonstrates such courage, speaking truth to power and standing up for the equal rights of Palestinians and all people. Please watch and share!
Read More Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op
The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now.
Read More Help Taika Waititi ‘Save Ralph’
Taika Waititi has lent his voice to the ‘spokes-bunny’ of a new campaign to ban animal testing for cosmetics.
Read More We Are Living Through a Time of Fear – Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other
We are now firmly in a time of fear – not only of the virus, but of each other. Fear destroys solidarity. Fear forces us to turn inwards to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Fear refuses to understand or identify with the concerns of others.
Read More How Consumerism Destroys Our Minds (George Monbiot)
George Monbiot clearly illustrates how the deep-seated rot of consumerism has invaded and seriously harmed nearly every domain of life – from our own minds to society at large, to our fellow Earthlings and ultimately the entire biosphere. A must watch!
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