CHRIS MORRISON | 16 Nov 2023 In 2021 the Guardian ran a series of adverts claiming the newspaper was “not funded by billionaires”, and “our readers’ backing gives us the independence to hold the powerful to account”. Not perhaps all the powerful. The Guardian is backed by a number of billionaire philanthropic foundations, including the European Climate Fund and…
Joseph Mercola | 2 Sep 2023 Story at-a-glance Intelligence agencies have a long history of using propaganda as a tool of war, and the effectiveness of information warfare radically improved with the emergence of the internet, to say nothing of artificial intelligence and social media. If you’re over 50, you can probably remember a time…
Paul Thacker | 28 Aug 2023 Editor-in-chief Karla Soares-Weiser hires pricey consulting firm to manage missteps and scientists’ concerns over transparency. The Cochrane Library has remained a trusted source for clinicians and policy makers making critical healthcare decisions for 30 years. But now, faced with an ongoing crisis caused by multiple missteps, Cochrane editor-in-chief, Karla…
Paul Thacker | 11 Aug 2023 A Facebook employee emailed CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg in April 2021 to ask if the company should take more aggressive action against accounts raising questions about the COVID vaccines. “We are facing continued press from external stakeholder, including the White House and the press, to remove more COVID-19…
Kennedy Beacon | 9 Aug 2023 John Kiriakou looked up from his desk at CIA headquarters and was stunned to see The Washington Post investigative reporter, Bob Woodward, walking through the secure area without an agency escort. On another occasion, Kiriakou—who rose at the CIA to become executive assistant to the deputy in charge of operations, the…
The Unz Review | 12 June 2023 “Much of the current political legitimacy of today’s American government and its various European vassal-states is founded upon a particular narrative history of World War II, and challenging that account might have dire political consequences.”—Ron UnzAudio Player Question 1: Hitler Mike Whitney: Let’s start with Hitler. In the West…
Igor Chudov | 11 June 2023 Sars-Cov-2 is a result of bioweapons research, and work of Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak A fascinating article by The Times (paywall-free link) confirms that almost everything I said about the origin of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is true. The article is well-researched and is based on interviews with scientists, intelligence…
Matt Taibbi | 5 May 2023 First reported by Michael Shellenberger, new details about the “Burisma leak” tabletop exercise of summer 2020 reveal a notable betrayal of principle by two famed papers Last December, Michael Shellenberger reported in a #TwitterFiles thread that the Aspen Institute hosted a “Hack-and-Dump Working Group” exercise in the summer of 2020 titled,…
John Pilger | 1 May 2023 In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were…
SWPRS | April 2023 The dark backstory of Fox News and Tucker Carlson. A nonpartisan analysis. In the wake of the recent firing of America’s most-watched cable news host by Fox News, many people are wondering: who really is Tucker Carlson, and why was he fired? From William Fox to Marc Rich to Rupert Murdoch…