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Media frantically re-shaping AlQaeda as the good guys
by Robert Parry via Consortium News The key sentence in The New York Times’ lead article about Russian airstrikes...
Polls Show Syrians Overwhelmingly Blame U.S. for ISIS
by Eric Zuesse The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that,...
The censoring of America’s news
by Eric Zuesse, from StrategicCulture.org On 7 September 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush blatantly lied to concoct a...
Poroshenko bans…well, everyone..
Petro Poroshenko has just stepped on his western supporters’ narrative of a glorious, free and happy post-Maidan Ukraine, by...
Convenient memory lapses of the Anglo-American Press
by Vaska A quick scan of today’s major press outlets in the US, Britain and Israel reveals the Empire’s...
Jeremy Corbyn’s Victory Highlights the Power BTL
Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership election. You probably heard. He wasn't supposed to win - he wasn't even...
US Media Control: the backstory
by Eric Zuesse The show aired on September 5th, and interviewed their contracted expert KT McFarland. Watch the clip...
VIDEO: Fox News blames European refugees on Russia and China
by Kit Yes. Seriously. You may have thought that the refugees pouring out of Iraq were fleeing ISIS. You...
Why has one small child’s horrific death been turned into a media event and war cry? – UPDATED
As we predicted the ghastly tragedy of little Aylan is now unquestionably being exploited with psychopathic cynicism to re-launch...
Guardian and NYTimes Completely Misrepresent China’s Military Parade
by Joaquin Flores via Russia Insider Chinese leadership knows what China can do, has done, and what it represents...
The Telegraph being the Telegraph
Today the Telegraph accidentally sort of implied Russia is sending troops in to Syria… Vladimir Putin confirms Russian military...
It didn’t take them long to prove us right…
by BlackCatte If there was any doubt about what constitutes at least part of the agenda behind the shameless...
US analysis: “The Western media narrative about Ukraine is coming unglued”
by Systematic Photo Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters Patrick L. Smith writes in Salon: […] there is an aspect of...
“Turkey made me do it” – the next stage in backstopping the unraveling ISIS narrative
by BlackCatte In today’s Independent, Patrick Cockburn, reliable purveyor of backstopping, sets out the latest fallback position for the...
On meeting dodgy people
by Owen Jones on Tumblr Disclaimer: I’ve known Jeremy Corbyn for years, and I support his against-all-odds leadership campaign....
Recommended reading for the BBC
by Danielle Ryan at Journalitico A very quick example of how outright falsehoods continue to weasel their way into...
The tragi-comedy that is “Brown Moses”
Bottom line is Eliot Higgins, aka BrownMoses, aka one-man ‘research group’ Bellingcat is funny. He just is. And there’s...
Why Jeremy Corbyn is terrifying the London elite
by Craig Murray For a decade, I have argued that democracy in the UK is dysfunctional because an entrenched...
The Independent huffs and puffs on war
by Bryan Hemming “Anyone who never made a mistake never made anything” goes one of Albert Einstein’s most famous...
Newscorp hit new low in promotion of MH17 hysteria
by Kit Today, on the one year anniversary of the downing of MH17, Newscorp unveiled some “shocking new footage”...
