The British Foreign Office has banned Russian outlets RT and Sputnik from attending the upcoming Global Conference on Media Freedom in London, citing their predilection for "disinformation".“We have not accredited RT or Sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation,” said a Foreign Office
Name a quote by Mahatma Gandhi.Odds are the first thing that jumps into your mind is the famous, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." It's a good quote. It's pithy enough to fit on a bumper sticker, and it resonates deeply
In an excellent new essay titled "We’re Not the Good Guys -- Why Is American Aggression Missing in Action?", Tom Engelhardt criticizes the way western media outlets consistently describe the behavior of disobedient nations like Iran as "aggressions", but never use that label for the
If you have spent literally any time arguing against western imperialism in any public forum, you have had the experience of being accused of "supporting" one of said imperialism's targets. If you argue against regime change interventionism in Syria, you'll get accused of being an
"Putin's America," tweeted Anand Giridharadas, a pundit who was genetically engineered in a Monsanto laboratory to appeal to NPR listeners on every possible level.Giridharadas used these words yesterday to caption a short video clip of two tanks being carted through the streets of DC in
It's amazing how many people confuse egoic masturbation for revolutionary political activism.We talk a lot about how you can discern the real intentions of a given politician, plutocrat or official by ignoring their words and watching their behavior, but this principle can be applied equally
ABC News put an article out the other day titled "Was Tulsi Gabbard's nuclear war warning during Democratic debate hyperbole, or all too real?", which makes a surprisingly reasonable appraisal of just how close we all are to losing everything all at once.It's a mainstream
If you were to have asked me what news reports I definitely did not expect to see when checking my news feed this morning, "Malignant plutocrats join hands across partisan divide to end America's forever war" would probably have been among my first guesses. And