Investment Watch | February 9, 2015 Afshin Rattansi goes underground on media misrepresentation of the situation in Ukraine. Oliver Tickell, editor of The Ecologist magazine, warns mainstream media are beating the ‘drums of war’ by portraying an inaccurate picture of Russia as the aggressor, and are part of the international security machine that enables war…
Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner | February 6, 2015 In a survey of investigative reporters that makes Richard Nixon’s enemies list look like child’s play, nearly seven in 10 said they believe that the Obama administration has spied on their phone calls, emails and online searches. According to a Pew Research Center survey of…
Michael Krieger | Liberty Blitzkrieg | 4 February 2015 NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years. The admission came after crew members on the…
Ralph Lopez | Digital Journal | 26 Jan 2015 Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a “propagandist,” an editor of a major German daily has claimed that he personally planted stories for the CIA. Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a…
Infowars | 3 Feb 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW-BGBbs06A?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Alex Jones covers the waterfront with investigative journalist Greg Palast.
Matt Taibi | Rolling Stone | 21 Jan 2015 I saw American Sniper last night, and hated it slightly less than I expected to. Like most Clint Eastwood movies – and I like Clint Eastwood movies for the most part – it’s a simple, well-lit little fairy tale with the nutritional value of a fortune…
TSM | It has been verified by a source who claims she was there that then-CIA Director William Casey did in fact say the controversial and often-disputed line “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false,” reportedly in 1981. Despite Casey being under investigation by Congress for being…
Jim Fetzer | VT | 14 Jan 2015 Boston bombing, Charlie Hebdo and Sandy Hook would never have stood a chance against a vigilant press but for abdicating its responsibility to the public. William Shanley’s suit against the media over Sandy Hook may be the most important ever lodged–and might be the reason he is…
Eric Zuesse | Washington’s Blog | January 6, 2015 Because of the ample video and other evidence that the Ukrainian Government is pursuing an ethnic-cleansing policy to get rid of the residents in the area of Ukraine that had voted 90% for the Democratically elected Ukrainian President that Obama’s State Department and CIA overthrew on…
Going Underground | 20 Dec 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pS2oFG9lI?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] John Pilger, film-maker and award winning journalist, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about the headline events of the year, from CIA torture to the Ukraine crisis. He says the whole tenure of the BBC coverage of the Torture report was ‘does torture work?’ Modern British…