TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
In just 24 hours, multiple false media reports caused financial stocks to crash, and led to an airstrike that could have provoked an international war. (TFTP) Despite the fact that trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low, reports from the media can still have major international repercussions—even when they are false. In Read More…
This week the news cycle was flooded with mainstream headlines suggesting doctors were claiming have discovered the first marijuana overdose. “Doctors claim baby’s 2015 death was caused by marijuana overdose,” a Fox News headline claimed. “Baby boy is first marijuana overdose death, doctors claim,” wrote AOL and the New York Daily News. Local Colorado NBC affiliate 9 News headlined their article “Colorado doctors claim first marijuana overdose Read More…
There is a positive and negative version of the “total manipulation” paradigm. On the negative side, secret societies and giant corporations and bankers dominate world events to such a degree, resistance is futile. Nothing can be done. And since nothing can be done, individual freedom is useless. On the positive side (if you can call Read More…
There is ample talk, particularly of late, about the threats posed by social media to democracy and political discourse. Yet one of the primary ways that democracy is degraded by platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is, for obvious reasons, typically ignored in such discussions: the way they are used by American journalists to endorse factually Read More…
Hurricane Harvey has been making headlines all over due to the scale of destruction it has caused in Texas. While covering Harvey for Al Jazeera, reporter Shihab Rattansi told MSNBC host Ali Velshi last week that fossil fuel companies have been robbing locals in the Texas, Louisiana, and Gulf Coast area of infrastructure funds that Read More…
New data released by the World Socialist Web Site seems to confirm what many had feared: the new Google search evaluation protocol is adversely affecting a broad array of leftist, whistleblower and democratic rights organizations, and anti-war news outlets. The data, collected from the search engine metric website SEMrush, shows massive drops in traffic to WikiLeaks, the Intercept, Read More…