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...
NYT Admits “no evidence” of Russian Collusion.
Kit Knightly
The headline says it all really – it’s not exaggeration or spin on our part. For months, years even, we’ve been told that Trump is “the Siberian candidate”, or...
Open Thread – Russian Plane Brought Down in Syria
Kit Knightly
Last night, a Russian IL-20 military surveillance plane went missing over Syria, presumably shot down. Fifteen Russian personnel are presumed dead. This took place during an (illegal) attack by...
Three Point Failure: The Guardian’s racist campaign against “dirty Russian money”
Kit Knightly
Since the initial press hysteria over the Skripal case, the major political parties of the UK have been clambering over each other in an effort to scale the highest...
Open Thread: Skripal Suspects Interviewed on RT
For those of you who missed it - the Skripal suspects came forward, approaching RT to tell their story. The whole interview is available here...
Skripal Case: Luke Harding’s latest work of fiction
Kit Knightly
Luke Harding likes writing books about things that he wasn’t really involved in and doesn’t really understand. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, that covers pretty much everything....
UPDATED: Skripal Case: Gaping Holes in New Narrative
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) named their suspects in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal et al. today. The two men - named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov -...
First they came for the home-schooled….
Kit Knightly
There is a war being waged. Not the one in Syria or Yemen. Not the Nazis shelling the Donbass or the warlords selling slaves in Libya. Not America's drones...
5 timely reminders that the media think you are an idiot…
Kit Knightly
The corporate media think we are stupid. All of us. They have as much respect for our intellect or ability to reason as they do for the truth. This...
Internet Censorship: Appeal to Reinstate “American Everyman”
Kit Knightly
Just a week or so after Spotify, Google, Apple and Facebook made the curiously synchronized move to kick Alex Jones and InfoWars off their platforms, and just days after...
No, Carole Cadwalladr, THIS is what war looks like…
Kit Knightly
Carole Cadwalladr has been applying her fingertips to her keyboard again. This is usually bad news for anybody offended by giant leaps of logic or insufferable smugness, but it’s...
“Democratic Institutions?” – 10 Lessons from history that will destroy your trust in the CIA
Kit Knightly
In the hysterical wake of the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, President Donald Trump was roundly criticised in the media for taking the side of a "hostile state" over his
Open Thread: Trump-Putin Summit and Mounting Hysteria
Kit Knightly
Yesterday, Trump and Putin met for a summit in Helsinki. The resulting hysteria, all throughout the mainstream media and in the minds of neocon and (self-described) "liberals" alike. Just to...
