Robert Parry | 18 Nov 2016 In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, a hot new issue – raised by President Obama in an international setting on Thursday and touted on The New York Times’ front page on Friday – is the problem of “fake news” being disseminated on the Internet. Major Internet companies, such…
John Pilger | 23 Aug 2016 The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the…
BBC | 13 Aug 2016 A US federal judge has overturned the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey, whose case was examined in Netflix’s popular Making a Murderer documentary. Dassey, 26, will be released within 90 days, unless the state decides to retry him or there is an appeal. Dassey, who has learning difficulties, and his…
The New American | 5 Aug 2016 Liberal media bias has long been an open secret. But now it’s so bad that even a liberal mainstream newspaper notes that, in an effort to destroy Donald Trump, the media have jumped the shark. In a Los Angeles Times piece, columnist Justin Raimondo writes that to “fight…
RNZ | 7 Aug 2016 More and more of us have news fed to us from Facebook or we get it via Google. They are making it easy to find what we want, but they also influence which news and views we get – and the ones we don’t. Listen duration 19′ :30″ A logo created…
The Independent | 3 Aug 2016 ‘Oh, little snowflakes, when did you all become grandmothers and society matrons, clutching your pearls in horror at someone who has an opinion about something, a way of expressing themselves that’s not the mirror image of yours?’ If you’ve been listening to Bret Easton Ellis’ excellent podcast over the…
The Spinoff | 28 Aug 2016 Jose Barbosa talks to Adam Boileau of Insomnia Security about hacking thriller Mr Robot, and New Zealand’s place in the info-war web. The much anticipated Mr Robot season two is on Lightbox. To get everyone’s head in the right place José Barbosa talks to Adam Boileau, a computer security specialist…
Louder Crowder | 27 July 2016 Watch The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur freak-out as he takes calls from Paul Joseph Watson, Girl Writes What, Skagg3, Ben Shapiro, Dean Cain, and Dave Rubin! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsVONO75utI&w=640&h=360]
WUWT | 22 July 2016 Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Yet another screaming Reuters headline, this time Earth on track for hottest year ever as warming speeds up, precedes yet another screaming, inaccurate, prejudiced Reuters “news” article about the totalitarians’ current hot topic. http://sustainability.thomsonreuters.com/2016/07/21/earth-on-track-for-hottest-year-ever-as-warming-speeds-up/, written from Geneva, cites the World Meteorological Disorganization as…
New Republic | 22 July 2016 A few hours into Monday’s big “America First” rally for Donald Trump in Cleveland, the Alex Jones entourage arrived in an old beige tour bus. Jones’s security detail, expanded for the convention, emerged from the bus first, scanning for threats to their stocky Texan boss, who’d just scored the…