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WATCH: This is extremely dangerous to our democracy…

A few days ago, every local news station in America owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group – a massive...

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UK media admits that in Skripal case: due process ‘does not apply’ to Russia

by Alexander Mercouris at the Duran It is becoming increasingly difficult for the British authorities and for the British...

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Sneer & Smear: a close look at the gentle craft of media manipulation

by Mark Doran As an arm of the corporate state — yes, it pretends not to be; but we...

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State-funded BBC lets Boris Johnson claim of Russia “stockpiling novichok” go unchallenged while UK govt's Skripal “drama” continues to defy sense & reason

The government’s rhetoric is currently so deranged, its conduct by turns so delusional and so furtive, while the basic...

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Gaslighting about the realities of “state-sponsored murder”

Theresa May has just semi-officially pronounced the Skripal case a Russian state-sponsored hit. No evidence was presented for this...

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“We hates Putin…we hates him forever…”

There is ample evidence that the Guardian is now, following the re-shaping of its financing and management, reinvented as...

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Reality Check: The Guardian Restarts Push for Regime Change in Russia

The alleged poisoning of ex-MI6 agent Sergei Skripal has caused the Russophobic MSM to go into overdrive. Nowhere is...

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WATCH: The BBC’s coverage of the breaking Skripal story – distortion & bias in defiance of its own charter

Below is a clip from the BBC Newsnight of March 5 2018, just hours after Sergey Skripal and his...

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FILM REVIEW: Loveless [нелюбовь] (2017)

Catherine Brown looks at the 2017 Russian film and questions the claims made in western media that it represents...

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OpEd: For God’s sake, 'The Times' shrieks, do something! The Russians are coming!

 By James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation blog: Today’s lead story, Russian Threat on Two Fronts Meets Strategic Void...

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Five days after Putin’s warning about the dangers of western warmongering & this is where we are

Less than 24 hours after Sergei Skripal and his daughter, have allegedly been found in a collapsed state on...

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A Brief Non-Explainer on Why China’s Infrastructure Projects grow while the US Crumbles

by James Porteous A response to Why China Is Running Circles Around America at Truthdig.com Have you ever noticed...

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The authoritarians who silence Syria questions

Jonathan Cook I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment...

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WATCH: Reality Check: No Sarin Gas Used by Assad in Syria?

Ben Swann looks at some of the less well known facts about the alleged sarin gas attacks

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Deconstructing “The next War” section in The Economist

by Thomas Prentice How much should we let humans interfere with the functioning of machines and algorithms designed to...

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Lewis Carroll’s White Queen would have a career in the media today

“I can’t believe that!” said Alice. “Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a...

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WATCH: Vladimir Pozner reminds parallel universe inhabitants of a few basic realities

We are posting this mostly uninteresting pseudo-debate purely for what happens in the first few moment. Vladimir Pozner, journalist,...

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WATCH: How many last hospital(s) in Aleppo can be destroyed by Russian airstrikes?

How many “last hospitals in Aleppo” did the media claim were destroyed during the fighting? One? Five? Ten? Watch...

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How “free" is the UK press when over 75% of it is owned by a handful of billionaires?

It could say a lot more, and it leaves out a few important names, but at least it says...

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Mueller Indictments: truth v lies in "The Observer View"

Today’s Observer View focuses on the Announcement by Robert Mueller that they are indicting 13 Russians and 3 Russian...

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