After the previous hit singles, “Russia hack 2016: take our word for it” and “Assad used sarin: bomb first, never ask questions”, US government agencies are at it again with their new chart-topping release “Bad guy did bad things, we saw it from space”. With journalism standards in the mainstream media at an all-time low,…
Category: PROPAGANDA
War on Venezuela: False Beliefs
Western media coverage of this latest coup attempt by Venezuela’s right-wing opposition has tried to establish false beliefs. By Tortilla Con Sal A basic reality underlies the self-evident role of Western media as their ruling elites’ cultural and psychological warfare arm against both their own peoples and the peoples of the majority world. The Western…
Lies that Kill: Venezuela and Media Warfare
Mentiras que matan: Operaciones de guerra desde los medios Por Larissa Costas Approximate English Translation Via Google El 20 de abril en la noche, se desarrolló en Caracas, Venezuela una operación que pudiéramos calificar de paramilitar y mediática. Los habitantes de la Parroquia El Valle acusan al Diputado José Guerra de haber encabezado y patrocinado…
The Existential Question of Whom to Trust
By Robert Parry The looming threat of World War III, a potential extermination event for the human species, is made more likely because the world’s public can’t count on supposedly objective experts to ascertain and evaluate facts. Instead, careerism is the order of the day among journalists, intelligence analysts and international monitors – meaning that…
Make No Mistake: There is a Media Blockade Against Venezuela
Rachael Boothroyd Rojas Venezuela is in flames. Or at least parts of it are. Since April 4th, opposition militants have been carrying out targeted acts of violence, vandalism and arson, as well as deliberately clashing with security forces in an attempt to plunge the country into total chaos and forcefully remove the elected socialist government….
Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass
As our wars escalate in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, as U.S. warships bear down on Korea, and as our leaders issue new threats against Iran, Russia and China, we may have less time to save ourselves, each other and our world than we have previously assumed. By Nicolas J S Davies The Airwars.org U.K.-based monitoring group reports that…
How US Flooded the World with Psyops
Special Report: The mainstream U.S. media obsesses over Russian “propaganda” yet the U.S. government created a “psyops” bureaucracy three decades ago to flood the world with dubious information, reports Robert Parry. Robert Parry Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that –…
Facebook Zero and the “People’s Receiver”
Tony Cartalucci “All of Germany hears the Führer with the People’s Receiver,” reads a World War II propaganda poster. It was advertising the Volksempfänger – or, the People’s Receiver – described by the US Holocaust Museum which contains one of the radios in its collection in Washington D.C. as: Goebbels’s ministry recognized the tremendous promise of…
The Anti-Democratic, Anti-Intellectual West
Tortilla Con Sal Western imperialist elites accumulated their power and wealth by means of genocidal conquest which they have defended over centuries through different kinds of colonialism and, since late in the 20th century, by systematic neocolonialism. Many writers, perhaps most notably Edward Said in his pioneering books titled, “Orientalism” and “Culture and Imperialism,” have…
Fake News in a Multipolar World
Outside the Western corporate and alternative media bubble, the fake news controversy looks like a very contrived and double-edged propaganda exercise. Tortilla Con Sal Anyone trying to understand current developments in Latin America and the rest of the world may well find it useful to consider how, throughout the 20th century, Western ruling elites agreed…
Google’s First Draft Project: Mass Censorship Campaign Declares War on Truth
Facebook, Twitter, Western Media Attempt to Reassert Monopoly Over “Truth” A network whose members have literally ended the lives of millions with their lies, propose to police the web and verify the truth. Ulson Gunnar In a surreal and stunning example of 21st century propaganda and censorship, Google has cobbled together a coalition it is…
Nicaragua: Corporate Media Continues its Psychological Warfare Campaign Against the Sandinista Government
Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua – Permanent Media False Positives The reposting in various progressive outlets of biased report confirms the convergence in reporting international affairs between alternative and corporate media. Posters in support of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo are seen next to graffiti of Hugo Chavez in Nicaragua August 3, 2016….
