Caitlin Johnstone—–27 Jun, 2020 12:37 / Updated 4 hours ago America is as authoritarian and intolerant of dissent as any tinpot dictatorship. It generally just goes about quashing it in a subtler, more sophisticated way, aided by a conformist, groupthink mainstream…
Category: Fake News
Giuliani Banging The Trump Drum, But For Whom?
Franklin Foer Staff writer for The Atlantic Rudy Giuliani Is Living the Dream Don’t let his butt-dials distract from his cunning. It can sometimes seem as if Donald Trump has outsourced the defense of his presidency to an erratic buffoon. Rudy…
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves By Chris Hedges November 18, 2019 If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown…
Trump Just Might Be The Catalyst
Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like We Are Seeing Across the Planet? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies November 16, 2019 The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why…
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within By Chris Hedges November 04, 2019 Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs, government bureaucrats…
Venezuela in “Misery” – Lies and Deceit by the Media
Submitted by: ButtCracker — NYT – 18 May 2019 – Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Subtitle: Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts in favor of offal, fat shavings and cow hooves, the only animal…
An Empire of Bullshit
Submitted by: Buttmeister — After two years of gaslighting the public while it blew smoke up America’s ass, the Jacobin news media enjoyed its final feeding frenzy with the release of the 400-page Mueller report. They expected 1000 pounds of…
The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
Submitted by ButtCracker — Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The…
The Battle for Our Minds
Submitted by: ButtCracker — There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence. After reading The New York Times piece “The…
‘Brink of catastrophe’: Demonizing Russia dangerous for world, Nobel peace prize winner warns West
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The scapegoating of Russia, which is actively promoted by the West, is “inexcusable” as it pushes the world back into the Cold War era and puts it on the brink of a disaster, Nobel Peace Prize…
‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Today it seems like we are in another Cold War. It was breathtaking to watch our PM Theresa May immediately blaming Russia for the poisoning of the Skripals before the police had conducted their investigation into…
Facebook’s anonymous censors take down Latin America’s Telesur, and nothing can stop them
Submitted by: ButtCracker — (“Social media has demonstrated a willingness to collaborate with government censorship and it’s getting worse”: ButtCracker) When Facebook decides to censor, there is absolutely nothing to stop them. For the second time, left-leaning Latin American news…
It’s All Fake: Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation…
How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Nazareth. For several years now, I have been writing regular posts on my blog with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that…
Who’s Funding The White Helmets?
Submitted by: ButtCracker — As the U.S. moves closer toward all out war in Syria, a lot of what our government seems to base its intelligence on, especially claims of chemical weapon use by they Syrian government, is from an…
YouTube Purge: The End Of Freedom Of Expression Or The Great Awakening For Alternatives?
The censorship is ramping up as YouTube has begun deleting channels at a rapid rate including more recently a friend of Activist Post, Health Ranger Mike Adams of Natural News. I spoke to YouTube alternative BitChute for their opinion on…
Letter to the Mainstream Media: It’s Time for You to Acquire a Conscience
By: ButtCracker — December 1, 2017 The Main Stream Media has enormous capability mated with an extraordinary responsibility but is not utilizing either for maximum positive affect. I say this simply because of the fact that our country, world &…
What Are We To Believe?
Fake news plus phony “intelligence” equal disaster The Washington Post has published a story claiming that the North Korean regime of Kim Jong Un has succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear warhead small enough to fit onto an intercontinental ballistic missile.…
MSM, Still Living in Propaganda-ville
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Exclusive: The stakes in U.S.-Russia relations could not be higher – possible nuclear conflagration and the end of civilization – but the U.S. mainstream media is still slouching around in “propaganda-ville,” says Robert Parry. As much…