Lee Camp: New Polls Show Almost No One Believes Corporate Media Anymore
A new poll by Gallup shows that nearly the entire US populace no longer trusts mainstream media. Is this is a wonderful or a horrible thing? And what's the cause?…
Patrick Lawrence: So Far As I Can Make Out
Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media.
NPR Distorts History of US Invasion of Afghanistan
By Bryce Greene / FAIR In the first part of a series of reports on Afghanistan, NPR host Steve Inskeep (Morning Edition, 8/5/22) interviewed current Afghan Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob…
The Corporatization of Just About Everything — Including the Climate Crisis and Outer Space
Not only is there more corporate control in more areas of life but (worse) there has been consolidation of corporate power into monopolies that are so powerful that they seem…
Patrick Lawrence: This Week in Fake News / Blurred Truths
A veteran journalist's weekly critique on the state of mass media
How Spooks and Establishment Journalists are Circling the Wagons
In the second of this two-part series, we examine why so many journalists are keen to cooperate with and parrot the key messages of the US and British intelligence agencies.
“Top Gun: Maverick” is Military Propaganda. Official Documents Prove It.
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF – “Top Gun: Maverick” is a box-office smash, a massive hit with both critics and the public alike. Navy and Air…
War as Terrorism: Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See
This is suffering that numbers can’t capture, but it should remind us that war is a form of terrorism.
“The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation”: Nicolle Wallace. Nobody Spreads it More Relentlessly.
From her days as Bush/Cheney propagandist, to her stint on The View, to her role as beloved-by-Democrats MSNBC host, Wallace has perfected the art of sociopathic lying.
Matt Taibbi: Orwell Was Right
From free speech to "spheres of influence" to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted
The Enduring False Narrative of the Pulse Nightclub Massacre
Politicians and activists should stop propagandizing the fiction that Omar Mateen was motivated by anti-LGBT hatred, says Greenwald. It dishonors the victims and obscures the real motive.
Trump’s Barrett Nomination Another Step Toward Christian Fascism
All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality.
Geoff Cowan: An Aggressive Press Is Essential
The USC professor and former director of Voice of America (VOA) discusses the need for a strong press and opposition during the Trump presidency.