Imagine that the worldās largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding…
Imagine an experienced British surgeon, recently returned from Ukraine, breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related…
Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October: āIsraeli air strike kills 18 people in…
Last November, we reported on an incisive and courageous email that had been sent on 24 October 2023 to Tim Davie, the BBCās Director…
Propaganda by omissionĀ is a dominant feature of the āmainstreamā news media. Indeed, it is aĀ requirement. Rather than serving the public interest by…
A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news…
It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public.…
āI find Westerners in general, and Europeans in particular, extremely indoctrinated and obsessed with perceptions of their own uniqueness. Many see themselves…
The Guardian has long promoted itself as a valiant publisher of news and analysis that holds the powerful to account. It is…
The attacks by Hamas fighters in southern Israel on 7 October, and the Israeli air attacks on Gaza that have followed, and…
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