In a society of “believers” & “deniers” we all become Inquisitors
The “collision of opinion” so endorsed by enlightenment thinkers, is not currently encouraged. If someone says something stupid or blatantly false our first response is no longer to try...
Free speech, censorship & the right to be wrong…
Do we have a responsibility to silence views we consider morally repugnant or simply untrue? Claims that the Holocaust didn’t happen are insane and revolting. Should...
JFK & history as fiction
by Catte Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more...
Guardian "Facebook fact-check " on 9/11 – every bit as poor as you would expect
Catte Black The Guardian is no better at telling the truth about the nature of the 9/11 debate than about Syria, Ukraine or indeed anything. Its recent bid at...
Selling imperialist propaganda in an anti-imperialist wrapper
Why are Counterpunch and the Socialist Worker choosing such a time to present a piece on Syria by Ashley Smith that reads like a briefing...
How far will they go to propagandise for war?
As the push for catastrophic intervention in Syria and other acts of equal insanity are being supported with ever more media hysteria, based on ever more dubious, implausible narratives,...
BBC, CNN, Guardian et al need to face the agenda they are being used to serve
After the recent revelation that almost every major news site has been promoting unverified video and eye-witness testimony originating in some of the most extreme, violent and debauched terrorist...
MSM promotes dodgy docs as well as child-exploitation in drive for war
by Catte Overshadowed by the recent attempts to create a faux media storm out of an unverified video produced by the pro-terrorist “Aleppo Media Center”, a recent article in...
Guardian: "yes media is weighted against Trump" because he's "rubbish"
by Catte As a female writer I often cringe at the embarrassing collection of beaming, smooth-faced young women the Guardian fields to wrap dangerous political extremisms in lipsticky identity-politics....
The Sales of Justice
by Philip Roddis Please bear with me as I set the scene before getting to the point of this post … On Thursday the Court of Appeal, in a...
Zika is not yet proven to cause anything but a mild cold – but don’t let that stop the hysteria
As Miami sprays Naled over its own populations, and GM mosquitoes are poised to be launched over parts of Florida, let's pause to reflect on the sober realities about...
VIDEO: Hand in Hand for propaganda?
a short video concerning the BBC’s possibly fraudulent “Saving Syria’s Children” documentary Given the increasing hysteria of the media’s current reporting of the situation in Syria, which may well...
don't mention Gladio…
by Catte The alleged “terror attacks” are happening thick and fast in Europe right now. France has suspended its constitution for another several months as a response. Germany is...
Owen Jones: vote for Hillary because when she's POTUS we can ask her nice to be progressive
by Catte Owen Jones – one time darling of the liberal Left, is now, officially, endorsing Hillary Clinton. True, they changed the headline shortly after publication. It originally read...
"MH17 two years on": Luke Harding's cynical exploitation of one family's pain
Something of a tour de force of moral bankruptcy even for the team that brought you the Polonium story. We don't just get racism, warmongering and towering falsehoods here....
What will it take to awaken us to the "impending danger"?
It would be good to know if there are any brakes on this war-wagon the human race has been herded aboard. But even if there are, who's going to...
MH17 Inquiry: The Elderberry Bush
Episode 2 of the investigative series by the MH17 Inquiry Youtube channel Was the dashcam video titled MH17 Russian BUK launcher in Makiivka Ukraine video July 17 2014, uploaded...
Crowd-funded propaganda? Ummm…no thanks
“The last few days have been seismic and historic for Britain, the greatest political crisis since the second world war with reverberations felt around the world,” wrote Guardian editor-in-chief...
Did the UK Independent actually say democracy isn't working?
By Catte Yes. It did. or at least it published a WaPo piece (by “Emily Badger”), which says exactly that, albeit in slightly more MiniTrue wording. “Brexit reminds us...
If at first the PTB don't succeed….just have another referendum
We know how the EU responds when referendums don't go the way they're supposed to. Yes, that's right, they either ignore it, or insist on a second vote (and...
