CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—”These are the people who’ve been pulling the wool over the eyes of the mainstream public and manipulating the masses into thinking, speaking, working, consuming, and voting in ways that serve the interests of the ruling power structure. In this way they are able to ensure that revolutionary opposition to that power structure remains a fringe minority position, even as that power structure wages wars, sponsors genocides, destroys the biosphere, and keeps everyone poor, sick, and stupid…”
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EDITOR—Mehdi Hasan made the calculated decision that if he supported nazis in Ukraine, smeared Assad on behalf of the MIC, and did propaganda for Genocide Joe and the Democratic Party he would be safe. He thought they would allow him to tell the truth about a crucial issue if he pushed…
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REGIS TREMBLAY—In this film, I document a historical and factual account of why America hates Russia and President Putin, beginning with Harry S. Truman dropping the Atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to show Stalin and the Soviet Union “who was boss.” It continued at its height with Ronald Reagan calling it the “Red Menace,” “the evil empire,” and a “godless nation.” Every president since has demonized Russia, and since he was elected president of Russia in 2000, Vladimir Putin. The fact is, Russia is a peace-loving country and Russians only want the same things we want for our families: love, security, and a prosperous life. Russians, who lost 27 million people in WWII, more than all of the allied countries combined, abhor war and want peace and harmony between all nations.
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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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DAVID EDWARDS: Contrary to the belief of some of our critics, we don’t hate to see positive examples of this kind that appear to contradict the thesis that state-corporate media function as a propaganda organ for powerful interests. In fact, we are only too pleased, because we have hoped for two main outcomes from our work. While our key aim has always been to increase public awareness and participation empowering progressive alternatives to ‘mainstream’ journalism, we have also hoped to encourage ‘mainstream’ journalists to improve their performance as far as they are able within the severe limits set by state-corporate media.
