Konrad Stachnio | New Eastern Outlook | 22 Oct 2014 I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, I have been educated in how to lie, cheat, and not to tell people the truth. “I was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. Why, because I’m pro-American.” “German and American media are trying to…
by Jonathan Cook | MWC News | 24 Oct 2014 Russell Brand, is getting plenty of exposure in the British media at the moment as he plugs his new book, Revolution (and there’s no shame in that!).It is worth noting the differences between the Brand who was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight last year…
Dan Falcone | Truthout | 10 Ot 2014 Media analyst and professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School, Edward S. Herman, co-author with Noam Chomsky of Manufacturing Consent, discusses the propaganda embedded in US mainstream media coverage of the Ukraine crisis. Dan Falcone: What is missing in the US mainstream news coverage of Ukraine? What…
Ken Silverstein | The Intercept | 5 Sept 2014 A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. Email exchanges between CIA public affairs officers and Ken Dilanian, now an Associated Press…
RT | 28 Sept 2014 The media is a key tool in the battle for hearts and minds. But a new bestseller by a German author reveals some details on journalism that would be considered too outlandish, even in a spy novel. RT’s Peter Oliver reports. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I5BZCcURa4?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360]
Kevin Barrett | Press TV | 20 Sept 2014 A funny thing happened on the way to dystopia. As Western mainstream media fall into the hands of lying billionaires, Zionists, and intelligence agencies (three categories with significant overlap) – and as neoconservatives script big media’s ignoble lies – a surging internet-based alternative media has arisen…
RT | 22 Sept 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0czUr2imGY?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Abby Martin speaks with NYU media studies professor, Mark Crispin Miller, discussing the addition of 5 books to the Forbidden Bookshelf, a project aimed at making important literature that has gone out of circulation once again available to the public. The newest additions to the Forbidden Bookshelf include:…
RT | 2 August 2014 Afshin Rattansi goes underground with filmmaker and author John Pilger as he challenges Western mainstream media spin. He warns that ‘to be informed by it is not an option’ because of censorship, omission and distortion of the facts. Whilst other stories overtake it, we find out the death toll in…
Kit Daniels | Infowars.com | June 3, 2014 Speaking from direct experience, and with refreshing honesty, a former CBS correspondent openly confirmed that the mainstream media is being covertly manipulated by well-financed political forces who are also trying to sway public opinion through social media and by editing Wikipedia articles. Sharyl Attkisson, who also served…
GQ Magazine May 2014 Glenn Greenwald is trying to lose fifteen pounds. “Um, it’s been a little crazy these past nine months,” he says. “And I will eat French fries or potato chips if they’re in front of me.” On his porch, perched on a jungle mountaintop in Rio, the morning is fresh. Greenwald, in…