JOHN PILGER—A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?
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GAZA RESISTS | Katie Halper interviews Mohammed Hisam
120 mins readEDITOR—Content like this, featuring images of terrible suffering by Palestinians in the latest clash between Gaza and Israel highlights the shameless hypocrisy of the West as it applies selective empathy to the media coverage assigned to this immense tragedy. We don’t see ppl crying on the mainstream media when it’s Palestinians. We don’t see Dana Bash, Anderson Cooper and their ilk tearing up over these images. What we do see is how effectively they bury such material.
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EDITOR—Brian Berletic, editor of The New Atlas, has spent decades studying not just the ugly manifestations of the Western imperialist disease, but also its anatomy, especially its colossal machinery of soft power, comprising a multitude of mutually reinforcing institutions: powerful legacy media, new social media, think tanks, Hollywood movies and the rest of pop culture, television, false flag events, human rights outfits playing propaganda roles, intel disinfo experts, and even supposedly incorruptible places like international criminal courts. Covering the whole world, this is a formidable tool of empire to bend people and countries to its will. In this outstanding video, Brian applies his insights into this topic to the tragic events in Palestine.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—As expected, given their obsessive hatred of Putin, the US media and their global accomplices are already blaming the Russian leader for Prigozhin’s demise. This is premature gloating, to say the least, as explained below. And false marketing. They are giving us disinformation instead of legitimate journalism, which is the norm these days, as journalism or semblance thereof is rarely practiced in the West except when it relates to completely inane and non-political matters, such as sports commentary (way way too much of it), the weather, or the decadent and idiotic lives of obscenely rich celebrities.
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What really happened to NATO/Kiev’s “Kherson counteroffensive”.
32 minutes readLARRY JOHNSON—The Ukrainian offensive near Kherson in the south and Kharkiv in the north is failing. That explains why Ukrainian President Zelensky imposed restrictions the other day on what news western correspondents could report from the front. In fact, many of these reporters were pulled from the front lines. Do you think Ukraine would do that if they were pounding the hell out of the Russians and forcing the Russians to retreat? No. The west would be flooded with videos of triumphant Ukrainian troops celebrating victory. Instead of celebrations, there are videos surfacing showing Ukrainian losses in the aftermath of their failed attempt to capture the Zaporhyzhia Nuclear Power Plant (aka NPP).