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...
What is the Real Agenda Behind the Great “Twitter Purge”?
Kit Knightly
On July 12th, Twitter launched their announced “purge”. Stripping roughly six percent of all the followers on the platform. Barack Obama lost millions, so did Katy Perry. The stated...
WATCH: Robin Cook’s resignation speech, 15 years on
Kit Knightly
Today marks the 15 year anniversary of Robin Cook MP’s resignation from the Cabinet, in protest over the US/UK plan to invade Iraq. The speech, given just two years...
UPDATED: The Skripal Case: an open thread
The reality behind the alleged poisoning of Sergey Skripal and his daughter remains murky and apparently contradictory. Six days in to the investigation and little more is known beyond...
Reality Check: The Guardian Restarts Push for Regime Change in Russia
Kit Knightly
The alleged poisoning of ex-MI6 agent Sergei Skripal has caused the Russophobic MSM to go into overdrive. Nowhere is the desperation with which the Skripal case has been seized...
Mueller Indictments: truth v lies in “The Observer View”
Kit Knightly
Today’s Observer View focuses on the Announcement by Robert Mueller that they are indicting 13 Russians and 3 Russian companies for “interfering” in the 2016 Presidential election. It is,...
“Russian Hacking” – A dangerous delusion
Kit Knightly
The Guardian published this short opinion piece today, its headline reads: America lost a cyberwar to Russia in 2016. When will we have truth? Refuting the stale claims repeated...
Open Forum
This is an experimental open thread for anyone to post links, comments or questions on any topic.
JFK at 100: The War on Our Heroes Part 2
In the first half of this article, published on JFK's centenary, I discussed the general degradation of the intellectual and moral character of figurehead politicians,...
RT, Sputnik and Media Censorship in America
Kit Knightly
Just a few days ago RTAmerica was forced to register as a foreign agent in the United States. Using this designation as justification, Twitter and Facebook have now banned...
Catalan Independence and Media Hypocrisy
Kit Knightly 1.3 million people marched in the streets of Barcelona on the 11th of November. They were protesting the arrest of Catalonian MPs and other officials. The charges?...
Why is the US Air Force collecting samples of Russian DNA?
Kit Knightly The US Air Force recently put out a request for samples of DNA and RNA from Russians and people of Russian descent. Their reasons are unclear. This...
“Conspiracies don’t happen….here.”
Kit Knightly
The US alphabet agencies recently released some formerly classified files on JFK. There's nothing much in them, because well...why would there be? Supposing the CIA were complicit, who's going...
Why no-one talks about how "nice" Hillary Clinton is…
Over 11 months after her (catastrophically bad) loss in the Presidential election, the Guardian is still gamely waving Hillary Clinton’s battle standard. Apparently Clinton is currently doing the press...
The “European Values” think-tank and their list of “Useful Idiots”
Kit Knightly
Just when you think that the Russo-phobic hysteria of the Western world couldn't possibly make itself any more ridiculous...something like this comes along. This is the europeanvalues.net list of...
The problem with modern "journalism" summed up in one story
by Kit That a protest Facebook/twitter account focusing on the mistreatment of black people by American police was actually a fake account run by Russians to make the US...
