One of the craziest things happening in our world today is how westerners are being trained to overlook the massive amounts of western propaganda they’re inundated with day in and day out and focus instead on “Russian propaganda”, which has no meaningful existence in the west
https://youtu.be/k4lgsyo-3SE[/embed] Chris Hedges, Stella Assange & Matt Kennard speak about the perdition of journalists, focusing on the current proceedings against Julian Assange. Posted by Consortium News July 6, 2023 Presented by SOAS ICOP.
The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media. Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats By CHRIS HEDGES The Chris Hedges Report July 9, 2023 When Goliaths Infiltrate the More
Timing is crucial in media and politics—and never more so than when war is at stake. It’s completely unsatisfactory for journalists to toe the war line for years and then finally report, in effect: Now it can be told—years too late.
From Amnesty International to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), all major organizations for the defense of human rights and freedom of the press have called for the extradition case to be dropped and Assange freed.
"A discredited ruling class [attacking Matt Taibbi] which has disemboweled the nation for its corporate masters and whose primary mission is the perpetuation of permanent war, has no intention of carrying out reform."
",,,it would take all of about 20 seconds of anyone looking at my actual work to determine how absolutely opposed I am to anything resembling totalitarianism, fascism, authoritarianism..."
You’re not hearing one or two stories about Russian bots or evil anti-vaxxers or even the treachery of Jill Stein and the Green Party, you’re hearing hundreds just on one channel, and God knows how many more in other outlets and via social media.
On the 4th anniversary of Assange's arrest and years spent in the high security prison in England called Belmarsh, this video is a clip of a longer Glenn Greenwald video on his show System Update. To Twin Citians: The film Ithaka featuring John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, will be shown at St. Joan of More
“Media rarely stray far from the basic framework imposed by systems of power, as FAIR has been effectively documenting for many years.”
The fourth estate is supposed to be a conduit to the people and a check on power. Instead, we have a bunch of geographically isolated, introspection-free, cozy-with-power, egomaniacal journalists thirsty for elite approval.
Glenn Greenwald of System Update interviews Lee Fang of the intercept about how corporations have coopted diversity, tailoring messages to Democrats and Republicans that hide corporate agendas.
