American liberals are in an uproar over Twitter's recent labeling of National Public Radio as "US state-affiliated media", a designation typically reserved for state media from governments the US is trying to topple like Russia's RT, China's CGTN, and Iran's Press TV....
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Russia And China Draw 'Red Lines' On Their Borders; US Draws Them On The Other Side Of The Planet
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 21, 2023 | Featured Articles
Reacting to China's announcement that it will be putting forward a proposal for a political settlement to end the war in Ukraine, the US ambassador to the United Nations said that if China begins arming Russia in that conflict this will be a "red line" for the United...
They're Not Worried About 'Russian Influence', They're Worried About Dissent
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years when they warn of the dangers of "Russian...
Top 20 Most Cringeworthy Zelensky PR Moments
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 16, 2023 | Featured Articles
The US empire’s proxy war in Ukraine has had many jaw-dropping instances of imperialist sociopathy, propagandistic audacity and brazen journalistic malpractice that we’ve discussed in this space many times, but one of the most cringeworthy and degrading aspects of the...
CNN Recruits Washington's Worst Warmonger The Instant He Leaves Congress
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 5, 2023 | Featured Articles
CNN has shattered the speed of light in its haste to recruit former representative Adam Kinzinger to its punditry lineup the millisecond he left congress. Kinzinger, who prior to being redistricted out of his House seat received handsome campaign contributions from...
US Military Thanks And Praises Retiring CNN 'Journalist' For Her Service
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US military has been showering CNN's retiring Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr with effusive thanks and praise for her lifetime of service, giving some insight into the cozy working relationship between the media and the war machine inside the US empire....
You're Not Actually Helping When You 'Support' Protesters In Empire-Targeted Governments
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Truthout has a recent article titled "The Left Can Support Protesters in China Without Shilling for US Imperialism" with a subtitle asserting that "Chinese workers and Uyghurs need solidarity from leftists worldwide," and it at no point attempts to defend either one...
AP Editor Said She 'Can't Imagine' A US Intelligence Official Being Wrong
by Caitlin Johnstone | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Associated Press journalist who reported a US intelligence official's false claim that Russia had launched missiles at Poland last week has been fired. As we discussed previously, AP's anonymously sourced report which said "A senior US intelligence official says...
Musk's Free Speech Moves On Twitter Have So Far Been Unimpressive
by Caitlin Johnstone | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
When Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was first announced this past April I said that the purchase likely wouldn't go through if the empire thought it posed a threat to its information interests. I said that any reduction of censorship protocols which Musk implements...
Zelensky And Bush To Give Joint Pro-War Presentation
by Caitlin Johnstone | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
War criminal George W Bush and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be appearing at an event next week at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, in partnership with US government-funded narrative management operations Freedom House and National Endowment for...
Destroying Western Values To Defend Western Values
by Caitlin Johnstone | Nov 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
So it turns out the US intelligence cartel has been working intimately with online platforms to regulate the "cognitive infrastructure" of the population. This is according to a new investigative report by The Intercept, based on documents obtained through leaks and...
The US Government Sees Silicon Valley As Part Of Its Propaganda Machine
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is reportedly considering opening a national security review of Elon Musk's business ventures which could see the plutocrat's purchase of Twitter blocked by the White House, in part because Musk is perceived as having an "increasingly...
They're Recycling The Viagra Rape Atrocity Propaganda They Used On Libya
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
The west is advancing the claim that Putin is distributing Viagra to his soldiers so that they can more effectively rape Ukrainians, which was a ridiculous propaganda narrative the first time the west used it to manufacture consent for regime change in Libya. In a...
How To Defeat Putin
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
I know how to stop Vladimir Putin once and for all. I here offer my strategic wizardry to the western empire free of charge. Before I reveal my unstoppable plan, we must first understand that the Associated Press has just informed us that it is a “baseless conspiracy...
The Trouble With ‘Western Values’ Is That Westerners Don’t Value Them
by Caitlin Johnstone | Sep 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
Have you ever noticed how those who shriek the loudest about tyranny in foreign countries are always the same people calling for the censorship and deplatforming of anyone who criticizes the western empire? It’s a ubiquitous mind virus throughout western society....
'Russian Propaganda' Just Means Disobedience
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized. Empire apologists are raging at Amnesty International for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western imperialism to...
The Phoniest, Most PR-Intensive War Of All Time
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
The president and first lady of Ukraine have posed for a romantic photoshoot with Vogue magazine, wherein President Volodymyr Zelensky waxes poetical about his love for his darling wife.Now, I know what you're thinking: how is Zelensky making time for a Vogue...
The Empire Is Showing More And More Of Its True Face
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Genocide walrus John Bolton outright admitted to planning foreign coups with the US government in conversation with CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday. That's coups, plural. While arguing that the Capitol riot on January 6th of last year was not an attempted coup but...
Mike Pompeo’s Revealing Hudson Institute Speech
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave a speech at the Hudson Institute last week that’s probably worth taking a look at just because of how much it reveals about the nature of the US empire and the corrupt institutions which influence its...
Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid. The removal of Erdoğan’s objection...
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