‘Rigorous’ Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed by Leading Academic Journal

Kit Klarenberg A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world’s top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers. The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev’s…

Reality Based People Can Fact Check the ‘Fact-Checkers’

Moon of Alabama Stavroula Pabst, a writer in Greece, has published an interesting piece on the nefarious purpose of fact-checking and ‘dis-information’ debunking. Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking The piece explains this by going back to the writings of the French philosopher Guy…

In a Compromised Media Environment, Western Intelligence Agencies Escalate NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine Unchallenged

Stavroula Pabst The NATO Proxy War: A Bird’s Eye View As winter bites, the current NATO proxy war that has raged for almost a year shows no signs of stopping, with November 2022 reports quietly admitting that roughly 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded in action. Millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes, and…

Nord Stream: Propaganda, the Ultimate Weapon of Empire

Mohsen Abdelmoumen Empire’s relentless and murderous persecution of journalists who reveal the truth Journalists who care about doing their job and informing the public are very rare in the West, but fortunately there are still some, even if everything is done to prevent them from delivering information contrary to the dominant doxa. The most obvious…

$749,387 Pentagon Contract Debunks the Lie about “Independent” Fact-Checkers

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva The Pentagon has funded fact-checkers under a program to mark independent journalists as disinformation. Photo: defense.gov Documents expose the so called „independent“ fact-checkers. The so called disinformation fighters are nothing more than well-paid employees working under a $749,387 program funded by the Pentagon. A U.S. company called News Guard, self-proclaimed as independent fact-checkers,…

Lies Liberals Tell to Obscure Operation Z’s Anti-Fascist Nature, & Discourage Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Rainer Shea When almost two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck because of the inflation that the Ukraine war has accelerated, the U.S. empire can only continue its proxy war by carrying out an unprecedented amount of psyops. The war machine’s narrative managers have had to innovate, or else the social base for their Eurasian destabilization…

Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking

Stavroula Pabst Abstract Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and “anti-disinformation” efforts in our timeline scrolls? When one reads news, further, they often find that “experts” are common sources behind whatever claim media professionals make, no matter how outlandish or disconnected from reality such claims may be. Through his concept and exploration of spectacle, a…

News Reporting, Justice and Induced Dementia

Stephen Sefton People who have had to care for elderly loved ones who suffer from the terrible disease of dementia commonly find during this experience that our loved ones can hold grammatically correct but completely meaningless conversations. These may be with imaginary people, about non-existent situations, or recalling events that never happened. The conversation sounds…

Zionism is Canada’s Sacred Cow

Laith Marouf The Canadian government has embarked on a project to disappear any anti-Zionist narratives and to discredit anyone who expresses them. The Zionist project is now treated as if it were a “protected group.” The Government of Canada and mainstream media launched a witch-hunt against anti-Zionist speech. A McCarthyite search has been launched for…

Campaign to Sanction “Pro-Putin” Professor Carley Started by Journalist Funded by the Canadian Defence Ministry

Arnold August An image of Radio Canada (RDI) journalist Romain Schué and Université de Montréal student Katerina Sviderskaya, in front of a black background. The Canada Files can reveal that Ukrainian Université de Montréal student Katerina Sviderskaya obtained a grant worth thousands of dollars from Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND), four months before she…

West Ignores Evidence of Ukrainian Torture and Use of Prohibited Weapons When Making ‘War Crimes’ Claims

Olga Sukharevskaya, This week, Ukraine celebrated its Armed Forces Day. This public holiday was introduced in 1993 to replace Red Army Day, which was a Soviet holiday. Ironically, it also marks the anniversary of the 1240 fall of Kiev to the Mongol invasion led by Batu Khan. While not comparable to exploits of the Golden…

NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to the ‘Doorstep of Doom’

Robin Andersen Wall Street Journal (The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War 4/27/22): “Unless the US prepares to win a nuclear war, it risks losing one.” A popular cartoon aptly expresses the political angst provoked by media pundits today as they chatter on about nuclear war: Two people, both a little hunched over, burdened…

The Billionaire Plot to Impose Full Corporate Dictatorship in the Core of a Declining Empire

Rainer Shea The arc of capitalism is one where the system contracts, losing the robustness that it had when it was in the process of replacing feudalism. Its demand for limitless growth inevitably runs into obstacles, and that forces it to eat itself. Because there’s no way for capital to reverse its decline, and the…

Leaked Files Show DHS “Ministry of Truth” Lives On in Secret

Kit Klarenberg On October 31, journalists Lee Fang and Ken Klippenstein released a trove of leaked documents exposing how, in recent years, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) desire – and ability – to curb speech in both online and offline realms has ramped up significantly. Along the way, a government department ostensibly founded to defend Americans…

The West Renounces Freedom of Expression

Thierry Meyssan This is a debate that we thought was closed: Westerners had affirmed that freedom of expression is an essential prerequisite for democracy and that they would never violate it again. However, the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy and Germany have already embarked on the path of censorship. Now there are things…

Bucha, Revisited

Scott Ritter The Ukrainian narrative constructed by the west is built on a bodyguard of lies. And there is no lie greater than that which blames Russia for the deaths of hundreds of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha who were slaughtered by Ukrainian security forces. “60 Minutes” regurgitates disinformation about who committed war crimes Sometime during…

Ukraine is Preparing a Law on Full Control Over the Media, as the Last Vestiges of Press Freedom Disappear in Kiev

Olga Sukharevskaya Ukrainian journalists hold placards reading (from left to right) ‘No censorship’, ‘Azarov (referring to Prime minister Mykola Azarov) is the enemy of the press!’ during their protest in front of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev. ©  SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP While fierce battles continue to rage between the Ukrainian and Russian armies…

EU Parliamentarian Calls to Sanction All Observers of Donbass Referendums

Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil MEP Nathalie Loiseau of France is lobbying for individual sanctions on all observers of the Russian-organized referendums in the Donbass region. She has singled out journalist Vanessa Beeley not only for her coverage of the vote, but for her reporting on the foreign-back war against Syria’s government. A French Member of…