“New Knowledge” and the same old same old
Kit Knightly
Most of us in the UK-based alternate media are familiar with the Integrity Initiative by now. A disinformation campaign funded by the foreign office through the (very dodgy sounding)...
Venezuela: Guardian sparing neocon blushes
Kit Knightly
This website started as a way to air opinions that The Guardian would not allow in their comments section. Over time it evolved into fact-checking. Rarely has it been...
Open Thread: US Backs anti-Maduro Coup in Venezuela
In a move that many of us saw coming, the US has backed efforts to force Nicolas Maduro from the Presidency of Venezuela. Earlier today Donald Trump officially recognised...
Buzzfeed, Question Time & the purpose of Fake News
Kit Knightly
in the last two months both Buzzfeed and The Guardian have issued "BREAKING NEWS" stories that were based on anonymous sources....both these stories were shown to be untrue...
Why is Theresa May still Prime Minister?
Kit Knightly
Theresa May's government has a strong argument for being the worst in the history of our democracy. So why is it allowed to continue?
Discuss: Brexit deal vote looms
Tonight, any time now, the UK Parliament will vote on whether or not accept Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit "deal" with the EU. The deal, which essentially keeps us...
Discuss: Kerch Strait and Azov Sea Tensions
The Guardian has a an opinion piece today, titled: The EU’s response to Russia must be bold and unanimous. It is written by German politician Norbert Röttgen, head of...
The EU and the warning signs of Fascism
Kit Knightly
Things are spiralling out of control in Europe, faster than many predicted. Outside of Brexit, there is strong anti-EU feeling in Hungary, Spain, Italy, Greece and France. The EU...
The Guardian’s Bush obituary plumbs new depths of sycophantic hypocrisy
Kit Knightly
We're no longer supposed to examine the lives, characters or morals of our leaders. Only "honor their memory" and be "grateful for their service". History is presented to us,...
“People hold opinions I don’t share, we should stop them.”
Kit Knightly
Sixty percent of us believe in “conspiracy theories”, and we shouldn’t. At least according to Hugo Drochon, Professor of Politics at Nottingham University. He doesn’t raise the question of...
UPDATED: The “Secret Meetings” of Paul Manafort & Julian Assange
Kit Knightly
This is classic dishonest journalism. Leaving out important information, whilst building its entire case on alleged anonymous "sources". The tools of the hack with an axe to grind, or...
“Venezuela is facing disaster”
Kit Knightly
There’s a video doing the rounds on Twitter, a solemn-voiced, serious-eyed man appealing directly to the camera: “Venezuela is facing disaster”, he intones. And then there’s stock footage of...
The Rehabilitation of Robert Mueller
Kit Knightly
The “Resistance” – the loose affiliation of liberals, progressives and neo-conservatives dedicated to opposing Donald Trump – is NOT a grass-roots movement. They don’t speak for the everyman or...
OPEN THREAD: Brexit – Deal or No Deal?
Theresa May’s proposed “deal” for leaving the European Union has been criticised by MP’s from all across the political spectrum. Cabinet Ministers have resigned, jobs have been refused, letters...
Armistice Day & the Resurrection of the Old Lie
Kit Knightly
In a profoundly dishonest society, the shared grief of World War I is one of the few things we all know the truth of. One of the few things...
Midterms, Media & the Ever-Rolling Carnival of Distraction
Kit Knightly
The US mid-terms happened this week - you probably noticed. There were maps everywhere, people talking about a blue-wave or a red tsunami or...something. None of it really made...
gab.com & the Great Purge on the Horizon
Kit Knightly
gab.com is an alternative social network, set up and launched in 2016. It's founder, Andrew Torba, stated he wanted to create a home for free speech, and counter what...
Facts and Questions in the “MAGABomber” Case
Kit Knightly
Two days ago, suspicious packages were allegedly delivered to the homes of George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Later that day, and into the next, more people were...
Guardian Watch – Freedland Remembers Yemen is a Thing
Kit Knightly
Jonathan Freedland has weighed in on Khashoggi case. He's outraged, of course. Because they all are. Every single voice in the mainstream world has suddenly realised...
Bias – The New Impartiality
Kit Knightly
You know what happens when you split equal time between the flat-Earth and round-Earth arguments? The flat-Earther loses. Because an impartial viewing of the evidence proves them wrong. Propaganda...
