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How Does Media Know What Happened In Syria Chemical Attack?
While images of children struggling to breathe and survive is sickening, there must be some sober consideration about the realities on the ground in Syria. By Kevin Gosztola.
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Syrian refugee girl Bana Alabed announces book deal with Simon & Schuster
Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old Syrian refugee girl who made her name on Twitter as the “voice of Aleppo,” announced that she is writing a memoir called “Dear World...” By Andrea Park.
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Six Things I Think: Masters of War Edition
Nina Illingworth takes a quick check in with the mainstream US media and discovers that it’s all war all the time in an ominous sign for the future.
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David Ignatius’ 15 Years of Running Spin for Saudi Regime
Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius wrote what read like a press release for the Saudi regime. By Adam Johnson.
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Let’s Call Western Media Coverage of Syria By Its Real Name: Propaganda
Who do you trust? By Michael Howard.
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Lockheed Martin-Funded Experts Agree: South Korea Needs More Lockheed Martin Missiles
Media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system omit that one of CSIS’s top donors, Lockheed Martin, is THAAD’s primary contractor. By Adam Johnson.
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NPR Can’t Help Hyping North Korean Threat
The construction of foreign “threats” benefits a national government hungry for legitimacy—and news organizations hungry for an audience. By Glen Frieden.
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The [U.S.] government is going to counter ‘misinformation’ about GMO foods
One Democrat derided the measure as “a government-controlled propaganda campaign to convince the American public that genetically modified foods are safe.” By Caitlin Dewey.
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Emails Expose How Saudi Arabia and UAE Work the U.S. Media to Push for War
The UAE’s man in Washington enjoys a cozy relationship with a top Beltway pundit. By Ben Norton.
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The War You Don't See
John Pilger's 'The War You Don't See' (2011) is 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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The Fascinating Story of 'Tokyo Rose' Iva Toguri D'Aquino, And How She Became Known As a Traitor
Iva Ikuko Toguri d’Aquino, or “Tokyo Rose” as most people knew her was an American-born Japanese woman who famously hosted a Japanese radio program aimed at U.S. troops during World War II that was designed to broadcast propaganda.
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NRA Issues Call for White Supremacy and Armed Insurrection
The gun lobby's new "recruitment ad" is really a call for white supremacy and armed insurrection, deliberately crafted to stir anger and fear. By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship.
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The History of Fake News
Why can’t America reliably separate out fact, falsehood, opinion and reasoned analysis? By David V. Gioe.
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EXCLUSIVE: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
Tom Secker and Matthew Alford report on their astonishing findings from trawling through thousands of new US military and intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents reveal for the first time the vast scale of US government control in Hollywood, including the ability to manipulate scripts or even prevent films too critical of the Pentagon from being made — not to mention influencing some of the most popular film franchises in recent years.
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Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
It has been amusing watching the New York Times and its fellow mainstream media cohort express their dismay over the rise and spread of “fake news…” By Edward S. Herman.
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Hiding US Lies About Libyan Invasion
In 2016, when a British parliamentary report demolished the excuse for the U.S. and its allies invading Libya in 2011, it should have been big news, but the U.S. mainstream media looked the other way, reports Joe Lauria.
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Russia’s propaganda machine amplifies alt-right
Russia’s army of media influencers, social media bots and trolls has increasingly amplified alt-right and far-right narratives in the United States since the 2016 presidential election. Russia’s efforts to push propaganda and disinformation, experts say, are nothing new and extend beyond the U.S. to nations in Europe. But they have seemed to evolve in recent months, increasingly infiltrating and engaging with alt-right and far-right Americans online.
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North Korea releases shocking propaganda video of US aircraft carrier under attack
Doctored pictures and video showing US aircraft bombarded by a Pukguksong missile have been released by North Korea. The images were from a state-owned propaganda site, DPRK Today and released hours after US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers, despatched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam flew close to North Korea’s east coast.
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Russia tried to use computer game footage to prove that the U.S. is helping ISIS
Russia’s Ministry of Defense has provoked a torrent of mockery from its own followers after it published “irrefutable evidence” that the U.S. is in league with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) that turned out to be footage from a 2015 video game. Russia, which has backed Bashar al-Assad during the war in Syria, has often been critical of U.S. operations there, repeatedly claiming that U.S. forces are at best ineffectual at fighting ISIS or at worst in cahoots with jihadist groups.
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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
“Apparently it has not occurred to anyone that a ‘good American,’ like a ‘good German’ or a ‘good Japanese,’ must be, pro tanto, a bad human being.” By Bertrand Russell. (1922)
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