I hate the mainstream scoff.Do you know the mainstream scoff? It's the scoff people who've been indoctrinated into the mainstream worldview make when you say something which falls outside that worldview. Something like "Nothing of substance has changed since the Trump administration." Or "The west
Bloomberg pundit Noah Smith had a very revealing interaction on Twitter the other day that I've been meaning to write about ever since.It began with Smith sharing a screenshot of an article by journalist Yasha Levine which condemns US imperialist escalations against China and ties
US intelligence agencies have warned the Biden administration that if the United States withdraws its military presence from Afghanistan under current circumstances, the nation would be at severe risk of falling under the control of the people who live there.A New York Times article titled
There's a good viral thread being shared around Twitter right now by China Daily's Ian Goodrum compiling a small selection of anti-China mainstream media headlines in answer to the New York Times question "Why has there been a spike in anti-Asian hate"?Goodrum confronts one with
While the Capitol riot is being hysterically compared to Pearl Harbor and Kristallnacht by the political/media class, the Trump administration has done something far, far worse that is receiving far, far less attention.The US State Department has officially announced its intention to designate Yemen's Houthis as
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
The frenetic mass media propaganda campaign against Julian Assange was easily the creepiest and most Orwellian thing I've ever witnessed. And now it is silent. It did its job and then disappeared, before the public could really notice what was happening. It's absolutely stunning.You wouldn't
The most Orwellian tool of our rulers which does the most damage and affects the most lives is not surveillance, nor police militarization, nor government secrecy, but domestic mass media propaganda. It's also the most overlooked. It's good to protest the other mechanisms of authoritarian
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 headline for an article about "the Russian
There has never been a better time to be a woman, minority or member of the LGBT community who works in the DC establishment and thinks the poor should be made into pet food.The New York Times has published an article titled "Could Limiting Corporate