US officials are telling the press that Kabul will fall to the Taliban within 90 days and perhaps within the month as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation. "One official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity, said...
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‘We’ve Got To Fight Disinformation,’ Says Empire Made Entirely Of Disinformation
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 20, 2021 | Featured Articles
The weirdest thing about the Biden administration tasking itself with the censorship of "disinformation" on social media is that the United States is the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is built upon a foundation of disinformation, maintained by disinformation,...
Biden Administration Completely Kills The ‘It’s A Private Company So It’s Not Censorship’ Argument
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
In what's surely the biggest "Imagine the outrage if Trump had done that" moment to date, the Biden administration has admitted that it is giving Facebook a list of accounts to censor for spreading "disinformation" about the Covid-19 response. "We've increased...
The Horrifying Rise Of Total Mass Media Blackouts On Inconvenient News Stories
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Two different media watchdog outlets, Media Lens and Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), have published articles on the complete blackout in mainstream news institutions on the revelation by Icelandic newspaper Stundin that a US superseding indictment in the...
So Much Of What The CIA Used To Do Covertly It Now Does Overtly
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he’d start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was...
America’s Soup-Brained President Says The US Never Interferes In Other Countries’ Elections
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
During an astonishingly sycophantic press conference after the Geneva summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden posited an entirely hypothetical scenario about what the world would think of the United States if it were interfering in foreign elections and everybody...
US Bombs Syria and Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
On orders of President Biden, the United States has launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria. As of this writing the exact number of killed and injured is unknown, with early reports claiming “a handful” of people were killed. Rather than doing anything remotely...
Conspiracy Theories are Caused by Government Secrecy
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
With anyone sharing "conspiracy theories" facing ever-harsher penalties online, we are ignoring their cause: governments so intent on keeping their secrets, not to protect their people, but to protect themselves. The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no...
Viral #TrumpsNewArmy Video Is Liberals At Their Craziest And Scariest
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 20, 2021 | Featured Articles
A new viral video calling on liberals to form “an army of citizen detectives” to gather information on Trump supporters and report their activities to the authorities has racked up thousands of shares and millions of views in just a few hours. The hashtag...
MSM Already Using Capitol Hill Riot To Call For More Internet Censorship
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine today as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation’s Capitol building, and now the whole nation is freaking out. I am being generous when I say that America was given a very...
The Washington Post Can’t Stop Babbling About Russians ‘Hacking Our Minds’
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post has published another article warning its readers that the Russians are “hacking our minds”, this one authored by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. “Russia hasn’t just hacked our computer systems. It’s hacked our minds.” blares the ridiculous, propagandistic...
When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State Media
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
The New York Times published an astonishingly horrible article the other day titled “Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic” accusing governments like Venezuela and Nicaragua of exploiting Covid-19 to quash opposition and oppress...
I Don’t Always Believe CIA Narratives. But When I Do, I Believe Them About China.
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
My social media notifications have been lighting up the last few days with virulent Chinagaters sharing a video which purports to show Uighur Muslims being loaded onto a train to be taken to concentration camps. It’s actually an old video that had already surfaced...
As Long As Mass Media Propaganda Exists, Democracy Is A Sham
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has reportedly found that a majority of Americans believe the completely discredited narrative that the Russian government paid Taliban-linked fighters to kill the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan. “A majority of...
The Establishment Only Dislikes Trump Because He Puts An Ugly Face On The Empire
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance as you’d expect from a president who spent eight years stagnating the...
Nothing Is Certain But Death, Taxes, And Police Infiltration Of US Protests
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
A video has been circulating of a white man casually smashing the windows of a Minneapolis shop with a hammer during protests against the police murder of George Floyd. The man is clearly trying to hide his identity by wearing a gas mask, carrying a large umbrella,...
Narrative Managers Argue China-Like Internet Censorship Is Needed
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Neoconservative publication The Atlantic has published an article authored by two university professors titled “Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal”, subtitled “In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and...
MSM China Hysteria Gets Way Crazier And Dumber
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
Hysteria about China has been kicked into high gear by the political/media class who are responsible for manufacturing support for the cold war escalations which will be necessary to prevent the US from being surpassed on the world stage as a unipolar superpower. Fox...
They Are Rolling Out The Architecture Of Oppression Now Because They Fear The People
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 15, 2020 | Featured Articles
“As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a recent interview. “Do you truly believe...
Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
The prosecution in the Assange extradition trial has falsely alleged that WikiLeaks recklessly published unredacted files in 2011 which endangered people’s lives. In reality the Pentagon admitted that no one was harmed as a result of the leaks during the Manning...
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