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The Media Celebrated Julian Assange and is Now Too Afraid to Defend Him
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Journalism Is ‘At an Existential Moment’
"Rebuilding trust with truth is vital to combat the rise of fascism"
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We can take a significant step towards a saner society by shouting loudly for Julian Assange to be freed immediately
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Jeremy Corbyn on the establishment campaign to stop him becoming PM
Interview on the British media, UK military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia
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Between Jamal Khashoggi and Shireen Abu Akleh
On the morning of May 11, a journalist was shot to death from a distance, deliberately, almost certainly by IDF soldiers, who will take their crime and their secret with them to their graves
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Julian Assange Is Enduring Unbearable Persecution for Exposing US War Crimes
The extradition, trial and conviction of Julian Assange would have frightening ramifications for investigative journalism
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Corporate masters no longer give journalists the time to go out to investigate
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UK Approves Assange Extradition
United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States
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How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation
65 percent of vaccine disinformation on Facebook and Twitter came from just 12 people
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How Corporate Propaganda Shapes Public Opinion
The mass manufacturing of news under Churnalism tends to drain the detail out of these stories
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War Propaganda, Pseudo-Events and the Global Village Idiot
Perhaps another potential title for this article might that be of Journalism “as” Propaganda
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The Greatest Trick COVID Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World It Didn’t Exist
We cannot wish COVID away
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‘Disinformation’ Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts
S officials have openly admitted to “using information as a weapon even when the confidence and accuracy of the information wasn’t high”
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Journalists Accused Israel of Targeting Them 2 Weeks Before Killing of Abu Akleh
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Teaching Media Literacy Is the Only Real Answer to Fake News
Censorship is an ineffective solution that only complicates the threats posed by fake news
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Israel Systematically Targets Palestinian Journalists to Hide Reality of Occupation
“It’s really important to Israel that nobody see what’s going on in the Occupied Territories.”
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We cannot rely on billionaires to create necessary guardrails on social media
Elon Musk's Twitter deal shows the risks of a digital town square in private hands
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Propaganda Wars Are Raging as Russia’s War on Ukraine Expands
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A Political Disinformation Campaign is Threatening Our Democracy
The systematic dissemination of disinformation, however, is more than just lying. It is a political strategy in a war to take control of public power
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How Creative Writing Programs De-Politicized Fiction
In the shadow of the Cold War, the rise of creative writing programs and ‘show don’t tell’ philosophy drained fiction of its political bite
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‘A Real Threat to Democracy’: Musk Buys Twitter for $44 Billion
"This isn't just some corporate takeover. This is about a set of very specific moves that our oligarchs have been taking that have gradually concentrated economic, political, and discursive power in fewer and fewer hands."
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Ukraine and the ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims of war
Discussion on how this bifurcation of the world into ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims obliterates nuance and ambiguity, and is a key component of propaganda, especially in war
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Activists Blockade Corporate Newspapers Over Inadequate Climate Coverage
Corporate media outlets are "enabling the government's gaslighting of the public" by failing to cover the climate emergency with "the frequency it deserves"
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The debate over the minimum wage has been lopsided for a very long time
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Let Us Name the System: “Racial Capitalism”
It’s fascinating to see pundits on CNN, MSNBC and other networks now discussing “systemic racism” after they’d spent months during the Democratic presidential primaries in panicked overdrive propping up “the system.”
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Welcome to the Era of the Great Disillusionment
With a media in place that truly holds politicians to account and celebrates scientists for their contributions to collective knowledge, not their usefulness to corporate enrichment—we would not need to worry about the safety of our communications systems or medicines
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The bigger picture is hiding behind a virus
If only we could redirect our gaze, if we could seize back control of our attention for a moment, we might understand that we are being plagued not just by a virus but by our fear, our hate, our hunger, our selfishness
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Extradition of Assange Would Set a Dangerous Precedent
The Trump administration is seeking extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to the United States for trial on charges carrying 175 years in prison
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on Ukraine, Russia-NATO, Assange, Shireen Abu Akleh & COVID-Measures
Interview on the war in Ukraine and the role of NATO
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So-called deepfakes use machine learning to modify video footage, usually replacing one person's face with another, with realistic results
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Honest Government Ad | Hung Parliament
The Australien Government has made an ad about Hung Parliaments ahead of the coming election, and its surprisingly honest and informative
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Interview on a many topics, including the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Fascism Is Not an Exaggeration
Interview on authoritarianism, neo-liberal fascism, and the lack of critical thinking pervading society and culture
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Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...
Blogs
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Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
Books
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Taking on the System: Rules for Change in a Digital Era
The founder of one of the most influential political blogs...
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2009 April 9 by Mike Marqusee CONTENDING FOR THE...
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Lettre ouverte à ceux qui sont passés du col Mao au Rotary
Avant de mourir, à 41 ans, Guy Hocquenghem a tiré...
