Today on Twitter OffG stepped into the current panic-inferno and thick forest of screaming hashtags that is the "Amazon Forest Fire Crisis." The results were thought-provoking. The mainstream media...
Speed and panic go hand-in-hand in today’s fabricated world of engineered emergencies and digital alerts. “We have no time” is today’s mantra – “We are running out of time”...
YouTube has just announced they have changed their “community standards” to combat “extremist content” on their platform. This is just the latest step in the war against free speech...
One of our readers/followers recently brought something rather alarming to our attention on Facebook. It seems that certain of our articles, when shared, are not visible to anyone but...
No matter the source of the violence, no matter the politics or casualties or the location, it seems the reaction of governments in the face of "terrorism" is virtually...
A revealing observation is contained in a recent UK government report UK FOREIGN POLICY IN A SHIFTING WORLD ORDER (published December 2018) and brought to our attention on Twitter....
Kit Knightly Sixty percent of us believe in “conspiracy theories”, and we shouldn’t. At least according to Hugo Drochon, Professor of Politics at Nottingham University. He doesn’t raise the...
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 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...
Ducksoap Guardian columnist Rafael Behr is fearful. He is frightened by little blue birds pecking at the media bubble. He is absolutely terrified of the success of twitter as...
Harry Bentham Controversies surrounding online fake news, having alarmed political activists in Britain and the US, are prompting social media companies to be more active in combating the alleged...
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...
A Welsh brass band has been touring Crimean venues this month. This is totally unacceptable, according to the Kiev-based government of Ukraine – installed after the 2014 coup. Quite...
Propaganda has reached its zenith when each member of the target population thinks the same; when they are afraid to think differently. At this point 'leadership' may commit whatever...
Kit 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...
by Eric Zuesse On April 23rd, the great independent investigative journalist, Craig Murray — a former British diplomat — headlined at his blog, “Condemned By Their Own Words”, and...
Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around...
Heather Stewart, The Guardian's chief stenographer political editor, has copied and pasted a press release written a new article all about "Russian bots". The trouble is she doesn't...
by Jonathan Cook, October 1, 2017, via Dissident Voice Alternet has gone public with concerns about the way Google and Facebook have limited traffic to its website and, more generally,...
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...