In America they build flying war robots, but you can't drink the water. America is where the empire keeps its billionaires and bombs.Giant wars left Europe a mess many years ago, so America rose to the top. Now it's where many rich and powerful influencers
I've been noticing videos going viral the last few days, some with millions of views, about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and pro-Israel hawks, who aren't traditionally
When a baby is born, its parents teach it how to eat solid foods and walk and talk, which generally works out fine. Then they start teaching the baby all the lies their parents taught them, and things start to get messy.When the baby is
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:
I've been writing a lot about how the ability to control public narratives is the only real power in this world, and how the need of the ruling elites to wield that power explains everything from the feigned panic about "Russian propaganda" to Wikipedia's bizarre
MSNBC host Joy Reid still has a job. Despite blatantly lying about time-traveling hackers bearing responsibility for bigoted posts a decade ago in her then-barely-known blog, despite her reportedly sparking an FBI investigation on false pretenses, despite her colleagues at MSNBC being completely fed up with how
Loyalists of the western empire have been growing increasingly honest about their desire to use censorship and propaganda in order to win an "information war" against Russia.The other day we saw a Guardian article arguing for the necessity of a coordinated campaign by western governments to "combat
In which Caitlin shares her experience with Sky News and Twitter haters, has a good rant about brazen Atlantic Council propaganda, and explains why you can't legitimately complain about "Russian disinformation" without first addressing the lies that led up to the Iraq invasion.https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ep-76-any-discussion-of-russian-disinfo-is-invalid-unless-it-addresses-iraq-lies
I sometimes try to get establishment loyalists to explain to me exactly why we're all meant to be terrified of this "Russian propaganda" thing they keep carrying on about. What is the threat, specifically? That it makes the public less willing to go to war
Things aren't looking great for the Democratic establishment, which recently admitted that it stacks its primaries against progressive candidates and is currently engaged in a desperate, hail Mary lawsuit against WikiLeaks for its factual publications about the party. So of course you know what that