Fernando Buen Abad We are an immense cluster of unconnected communication initiatives. So much damage has been done by individualism, sectarianism and isolationism… even when working as a team, some think that the others are part of a set that are only there to serve the one who thinks he is the “boss” and it’s…
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Lies Are Not Information: The Hate-Mongers and Serial Distributors of Media Manipulation
Stella Calloni In a scenario such as the one we find ourselves in, with a paralyzed world, one might imagine that the hate-mongers would be moved to reflect and would recover some of their lost humanity when faced with so much human suffering. However, the facts are demonstrating the persistence of hate and lies. The…
Intelligence Leaks Reveal Just How Ready the Police State Is to Crack Down on Dissent
Rainer Shea Note: above image is from the “Blue Leaks” Since Cointelpro, the program where the FBI infiltrated anti-war, environmental, and civil rights groups, revolutionary-minded people in America have had an intuitive suspicion that the state is monitoring them more closely than it appears on the surface. People have developed sometimes overly paranoid theories about…
Fake Trending Topics and the Failed Mercenary Operation Against Venezuela
Marco Teruggi The call for U.S. military intervention was the number one trend on Twitter in Venezuela. It coincided with Operation Gideon. That trend was not spontaneous, but created by an artificial mechanism that few know about and that poses a threat. Is it possible that the request for a foreign military intervention is a…
Coronavirus Lab Story Originated in the White House
Scott Scheffer The campaign of slander against China to deflect criticism of President Trump over the COVID-19 pandemic has ratcheted up in recent days. It isn’t only a defensive move by the Trump administration itself. A leaked memo by GOP strategists urged Republican senatorial candidates to attack China instead of attempting to defend Trump during…
A 70-Year War on ‘Propaganda’ Built by the CIA
Cynthia Chung “Hell is empty and all the devils are here” – William Shakespeare (The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2) War has always depended on a reliable system to spread its propaganda. The Arthashastra written by Chankya (350-283 BCE) who was chief advisor to the Emperor Chandragupta (the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire) discusses…
Mystified Consciousness
Andy Merrifield Like in the 1930s, whiffs of fascism are in the air. Demagogic chauvinism is thriving across the globe and tolerance has undergone core meltdown. Nationalism is alive and apparently well. Borders are getting staked out, walls erected, and mass media—especially social media—saturate us with misinformation morning, noon, night, and much of the time…
The CIA and the Media
Carl Bernstein After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below. In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists,…
Beating the Western Media Blockade: Ideas, Infrastructure, Solidarity
Jorge Capelán and Stephen Sefton So much confusion and bad faith prevails in the current global information chaos that getting back to basics sometimes seems impossible. But fundamentals never change and merit constant repetition. Above all, anti-imperialist defense of majority world peoples’ right to development against the fascist onslaught of the corporate and political power…
The Slow Death of Investigative Journalism
John PerryThe title of Seymour Hersh’s memoir is simply Reporter. It’s what he did and what he does: dig out and report important facts that need to be seen in the daylight, no matter how much the CIA, a US vice-president or secretary of state, or a mafia boss, may want to keep them hidden….
After the International Communication Congress: Integrating Communication to Defeat Disintegration
Javier Tolcachier The I International Communication Congress was held in Caracas, Venezuela, between December 2 and 4. Encouraged by the motto “Now the people speak”, about 1700 communicators attended the event. Along with 150 international guests from 37 countries, a large number of militants belonging to the base communicational structure of the Bolivarian Revolution attended…
Final Declaration of the International Communications Congress
The delegates gathered in the city of Caracas, capital of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in the framework of the “International Communications Congress”, after due deliberation have reached the following conclusions: The peoples of the world are subjected to a whirlpool of tensions, conflicts and wars instigated by the capitalist system in its neoliberal phase….
