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When Business Insider thought Russia might invade Scotland

Back in August last year, when the UK Establishment became seriously spooked that the people of Scotland might actually...

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Hillary Clinton: Of Glass Ceilings & Shattered Countries

From Media Lens We live in a time when compassionate rhetoric is used as a weapon of state-corporate control....

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THE DANGEROUS MYTH OF A ‘FREE PRESS’ IN THE WEST MUST BE SCRUTINIZED

by Amit Singh at Consented When we digest the news in the UK, whether it be on the TV,...

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Anatomy of a hatchet job: Regarding Women Cross DMZ in CNN’s Situation Room

By Gregory Elich in Monthly Review A television news program opens with a clip of marching soldiers, an obligatory...

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Majority of Europeans distrust MSM coverage of Ukraine conflict — RT

The majority of Europeans – UK, French, German and Greek residents among them – distrust mainstream media coverage of...

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Even DemocracyNow! Fudges It on Ukraine

Or, What the Americans Are Not Being Told Even Democracy Now!, like the PBS, can’t bring itself to tell...

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Entire Western Media is a Troll Army — Sputnik International

The frantic spell of Western media behaviour could be a case-study in how it is centrally manipulated with a...

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The Rouble Rebounds – reasons to be cheerful

by tutisicecream You might be forgiven for thinking that Russia is all washed up because of the rouble crisis,...

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Orwellian doublespeak at New York Times

by Jim Naureckas The New York Times headline (4/15/15) paints a dire picture: Turmoil at Voice of America Is...

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Exceptional Hypocrisy: The Defining Principle of America’s Foreign Policy

From Russia Insider In the Bizarro universe inhabited by the western mainstream media, elite opinion makers and professional mouthpieces...

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VIDEO: US journalist Robert Parry says media groupthink on Ukraine most extreme ever

[…] I have to say that in all these years I can’t think of a time when there has...

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VIDEO: Patrick L. Smith: Alternative Media Tells It Right on Ukraine

From Russia Insider Patrick L. Smith is the foreign affairs columnist at Salon and author of “Time No Longer:...

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You’re either with US or you’re a troll

By Julie Levesque at Global Research Foreign Policy Magazine recently had a column called Cranks, Trolls, and Useful Idiots,...

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Greenwald: Iranians are much talked about on Sunday morning TV, but never heard from

The usual suspects speak again . . . and again, and again . . . Glenn Greenwald provides clear-headed...

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The Indy tries to sell NATO as a bringer of peace, but no one is buying BTL

by BlackCatte The Independent bravely stepped up to the plate yesterday to try and sell the tired, discredited meme...

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Kiev Post’s Promising Padawan

Pocket Vader? On the photo above: Arseniy Pavlov a.k.a. Motorola, a DNR commander, “self-confessed” murderer of exactly 15 Ukrainian...

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FAIR: US media were already running with police fantasy when video exploded it

Michael Slager stands over the body of Walter Scott, whom he has just killed. Adam Johnson, at Fairness and...

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The Graun thinks shallow & slightly racist “humour” is cool

by BlackCatte Well the Graun continues on its own bizarre bid to bury its credibility and sink its reputation...

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VIDEO: European media writing pro-US stories under CIA pressure

From 2014, but still highly relevant. Udo Ulfkotte, one-time editor of The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung talks about the alleged...

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Tim Garton Ash: “Ukraine is a toxic failure – but let’s blame Putin.”

by BlackCatte The reframing of recent history is a venerable practice long used by governments and corporations to cover...

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