A politician can run a flawless campaign, say all the right things from a place of authenticity, hold wildly popular positions and an impeccable public record, but if they say things which upset the powerful, the narrative can be reshaped to paint them as crazy,
In a recent interview with The Corbett Report, the Ron Paul Institute's Daniel McAdams spoke disdainfully of those ostensibly anti-interventionist libertarians who picked this moment of all times to loudly and aggressively condemn Venezuela's president Maduro, just as the US power establishment is ramping up
Anti-establishment movements are a mess. Whether they're left-wing or right-wing, whether they're statist or anarchist, whether they're organized or decentralized, whether they place emphasis on official or unofficial narratives, any circle of people who are interested in opposing the status quo on a deep, meaningful
The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being promoted day in and day out by western mass media has had two of its major stories ripped to shreds in the last three days.A report seeded throughout the mainstream media by anonymous intelligence officials back in September claimed
Yesterday President Donald Trump tweeted the following:"Endless Wars, especially those which are fought out of judgement mistakes that were made many years ago, & those where we are getting little financial or military help from the rich countries that so greatly benefit from what we
Barack Obama is making headlines today. In a speech at the University of Illinois, Obama called out the "politics of fear" which are used by his successor and criticized an insufficient denunciation of "Nazi sympathizers" by the current administration."How hard can that be?" asked the former
Hey! Want to know a secret? A secret that people have used to overtake those who don't know it and rise to the top of civilizations for as long as there have been civilizations?I'll tell you the secret in a second, but first let me
In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has been jacked into their brains to keep them in a
One of the weirdest things about the post-Iraq invasion world is how the mass media has actually gotten less accountable instead of more accountable for its reporting since that time.Right now in the UK there's an amazingly viral smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn running across all
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world, but what if those stories didn't work on people anymore? We talk about the possibility of a solution to our systemic problems coming from way out of left field.https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ep-84-narrative-propaganda-and-enlightenmentArticle 1: Whoever Controls The Narrative Controls The WorldArticle 2: