Fact-Checking the Establishment’s “Fact-Checkers”: How the “Fake News” Story is Fake News
Max Parry It would be an understatement to say that during U.S. President Donald Trump’s term in office, the issue of truth and falsehoods has been a central topic...
The Washington Post’s Shoddy Defense of the Russiagate Investigation
Clearly, the Washington Post, from the top on down, is propaganda. Their ‘news’ is heavily colored because that’s what the owner requires; it’s one reason why reporters are hired...
Why is the media promoting Antifa?
Gabriel Black Over the past week, the anarchist affiliation Antifa (“Anti-fascist”) has received widespread and favorable coverage in the establishment media. On August 18, the New York Times, the main...
Charlottesville 2
by Paul Craig Roberts, August 16, 2017 What the liberal/progressive/left is trying to do with Charlottesville is to associate Trump supporters with White Supremacists and in this way demonize...
North Korea: Headlines full of "Fire and Fury" Signifying Nothing
In truly perverse fashion, the newspapers have all suddenly remembered that Nuclear war is possible, and that it's probably not a good idea. This is all built on the...
Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US
by Adam Johnson, July 13, 2017, FAIR Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists...
Iraqi WMDs Anyone? Washington Post Makes Unfounded Claims Of Iranian Supplies To Insurgencies
from Moon of Alabama The Washington Post falls back into its 2005 mode of blaming Iran for the capabilities of a local insurgency. This time it is not Iraq...
British Govt-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels
by Rania Khalek, via AlterNet Emails reveal that a popular source for mainstream Western media is a U.K.-backed propaganda outlet. The Revolutionary Forces of Syria (RFS) media office, a...
Rolling Stone: WaPo ‘fake news/Russian propaganda’ story is shameful and disgusting
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: Last week, a technology reporter for the Washington Post named Craig Timberg ran an incredible story. It has no analog that I can...
Well, that didn't take long…
by Kit The past two weeks, the ten days following our article predicting a marked increase in a pro-Syrian war rhetoric…there has been marked increase in pro-war rhetoric. The...
Fraud Alleged in NYT’s MH-17 Report
by Robert Parry, for Consortium News Forensic experts are challenging an amateur report – touted in The New York Times – that claimed Russia faked satellite imagery of Ukrainian...
NATO and ‘News’ Media Pump for WW III
by Eric Zuesse (updated and expanded from his article at strategic-culture.org) Introduction America’s announcement that Russia has committed ‘aggression’ against America, is an announcement that America is at war...
Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda's Affiliate
by Gareth Porter, FAIR A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how to characterize the relationship between the so-called “moderate” opposition forces...
Israel, the Media and the Anatomy of a Sick Society
Reading the New York Times, Washington Post, and other allegedly liberal major media outlets, one could be forgiven for thinking that the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is tit-for-tat,...
US “Repeatedly and Precisely” Bombs Afghan Hospital
by Vaska Three days ago, during the night of October 2-3, and although it had the precise co-ordinates for the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, US-led NATO forces...
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, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and...
US Media Control: the backstory
by Eric Zuesse The show aired on September 5th, and interviewed their contracted expert KT McFarland. Watch the clip here. TRANSCRIPT, starting at 4:45: Interviewer: The other place that...
What does Vladimir Putin’s 89% rating really mean?
by the Saker The Washington Post appears to be completely dumbfounded by Putin’s latest approval ratings: Think Russians are tiring of conflict with the West? Not according to President...
Preventing a Politics of Truth
Here are the opening paragraphs of Pam Martens’s April 14 piece on “the greatest income and wealth inequality since the economic collapse in the Great Depression [which thretens] a...
