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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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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.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among diplomats and political leaders at the time that any attempt to expand NATO was foolish, an unwarranted provocation against Russia that would obliterate the ties and bonds that happily emerged at the end of the Cold War.
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 Uniting in Love and Rage against Corporate Power
One problem that arises from a corrupted and ubiquitous corporate media is that if we are not directly involved in a particular campaign on issues like climate change, press freedom, anti-racism, bodily sovereignty, or anti-surveillance, we are manipulated by the corporate media to see people on another issue as marginal, misinformed, illogical, hypocritical, or simply nasty.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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!
Read More Scientific Publishing Is a Rip-Off. We Fund the Research – It Should Be Free
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves.
Read More Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System
How many of people’s mental health diagnoses are really just them struggling to function in a capitalist system that is amoral, destructive, overwhelming, overbearing, unsatisfying, and bereft of meaning?
Read More Immunity Passports: Does Social Solidarity Only Count When It Gets Us Back to the Pub?
If we really want a social consensus, if we really want the common good, if we really want everyone to trust in the collective, then we must decide to spurn the narrow, selfish, unaccountable elite that rules over us. We must decide, once and for all, to value the collective, the commons, the public good – not worship at the altar of profit and greed.
Read More The Universe Is Just Trying To See Itself
We each have an eye deep inside us, and it is all the same eye, and it is the universe’s eye.
Read More Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Cancel culture is not the road to reform. It is the road to tyranny.
Read More How the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel
It is widely recognized that critics of Israel, no matter how well-founded the criticism, are routinely punished by both public and private institutions for their speech.
Read More You’re Not A Radical, You’re Just Sane
The status quo isn’t the baseline of normality, sanity is. A sane, healthy world would look wildly different from this one, and we need to help people get clear on the distinction so we can all start creating that world together.
Read More Papering Over the Rot
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Read More Why Is the World Going to Hell? Netflix’s the Social Dilemma Tells Only Half the Story
The Social Dilemma offers us an opportunity to sense the ugly, psychopathic face shielding behind the mask of social media’s affability. But for those watching carefully the film offers more: a chance to grasp the pathology of the system itself that pushed these destructive social media giants into our lives.
Read More The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have.
Read More Wonder Woman Is a Hero Only the Military-Industrial Complex Could Create
In preparation for the release of the latest Wonder Woman installment, we revisit Jonathan Cook’s review of the original 2017 Wonder Woman, peeling back the layers of comic-book fun to reveal below the film’s disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
Read More The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.
Read More The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs
The world is still very much locked into zealous worship of the great god known as capitalism. And it is choking the world to death.
Read More Ads All Tell Us To Kill Our Future. Worth Discussing?
Every time you avoid what the market economy wants you to do, you help push towards a better system, towards an evolution beyond this shithole machine.
Read More We Are the Terrorists
The US and its allies have been helping Saudi Arabia deliberately kill children and other civilians on mass scale in order to achieve a political goal. Which would of course be a perfect example of any standard definition of terrorism.
Read More Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Blogger/journalist Caitlin Johnstone provides us with her latest thoughts on the devastating distortions of the mainstream narratives.
Read More The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask off the West’s War Machine
After four years of Trump, the war machine once again desperately needs a makeover.
Read More Yes, It’s All the Fault of Big Oil, Facebook and ‘The System’. But Let’s Talk About You This Time
The idea that individuals can’t solve the climate crisis has gained momentum in progressive circles. They say we can’t change the world by shaming each other for air travel or eating meat. But how much are ideals worth if they don’t demand sacrifices?
Read More This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Imperialism In Pumps
We should not be cheering for women rising to the top of a psychopathic war machine. We should be dismantling that war machine and rolling back all the conditions which led to it. True feminism, which is interested in guiding the world toward balance and heath in a way that benefits women and their children, would make this a priority.
Read More Chris Hedges: American Requiem
Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to the poor and minorities, the capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse.
Read More Humanity Has Trolled Itself Into An Awaken-Or-Die Situation
We are hurtling in the direction of dystopia and armageddon, and the powerful elites in the driver’s seat have made it abundantly clear that they have no intention of swerving from this trajectory. So what can we do? What is the one exit we have allowed ourselves?
Read More Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only for Our Future to Be Stolen From Us
There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change.
Read More The Great Unravelling: ‘I Never Thought I’d Live to See the Horror of Planetary Collapse’
We are the generation that is likely to witness the destruction of our Earth.
Read More A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Political blogger and activist Caitlin Johnstone shares her thoughts of the day about U.S. Empire and the precarious state of our society.
Read More You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can’t Have Both.
A nation that cannot exist without ceaseless war is not actually a nation at all: it’s an ongoing military operation with some suburbs and schools mixed in. This is true of Israel, and on a larger scale it is true of the globe-spanning, empire-like oligarchic world order that is loosely centralized around the United States.
Read More Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
Living on the same planet as armageddon weapons and a global contract of mutually assured destruction should be something that you are acutely aware of, and something you have grappled with on an existential level to the fullest extent possible.
Read More Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix
In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it’s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it’s narrative.
Read More Got Joint Pain? Why Dairy is a Bad Idea
Arthritis, joint pain, muscle aches. They’ve plagued us all at some point or another. But can joint pain be preventable through a mere change in diet?
Read More How to Make a Veganic No-Dig Garden
How to grow using no dig methods veganically, also known as “stock free”, without animal manures or other animal derived inputs.
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