John Pilger: From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media’s Enduring Role in Promoting War

Today, war by media is a key task of so-called mainstream journalism, reminiscent of that described by a Nuremberg prosecutor in 1945: ‘Before each major aggression[…] they initiated a press campaign calculated to[…] prepare the people psychologically[…]”

John Pilger
By John Pilger
John Pilger: From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, The Media’s Enduring Role in Promoting War

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on 'the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists' to discuss the 'rapid crumbling of capitalism' and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one

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Why the Media Don’t Want to Know the Truth About the Nord Stream Blasts 

First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Then, interest wilted. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US’s role.

Jonathan Cook
By Jonathan Cook
Nord Stream Feature photo

No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie – and that they are all but certain to cover their tracks when they carry out operations that either violate domestic or international law or that would be near-universally rejected by their own populations. Which is reason enough why anyone following the fallout from

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The Most Censored Stories of The Year, with Andy Lee Roth

Andy Lee Roth joins Lee Camp to cover Project Censored’s annual Top 25 Most Censored Stories of the past year that are underreported or neglected by mainstream media.

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
Andy Lee Roth Lee Camp Feature photo

Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored, joined the “Behind the Headlines” interview series to discuss the 2021 edition of the group’s annual Top 25 Most Censored Stories book. As the title suggests, the book covers important stories that are underreported or neglected by the mainstream media. Founded in 1976, Project Censored is a

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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II

A MintPress study of the 20 most influential U.S. news outlets found virtually no coverage of the esteemed journalist’s revelations linking Washington to the pipeline attacks. 

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Nord Stream II Seymour Hersh Feature photo

It has now been one week since Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report claiming that the Biden administration deliberately blew up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline without Germany's consent or even knowledge – an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Based on interviews with national security insiders,

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You’re Being Lied To About China – Lee Camp Talks to Jingjing Li

Jingjing Li of China Global Television Network joins Lee Camp to uncover the truth about the representation of China in US media.

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
Jingjing Li Lee Camp Feature photo

For the latest episode in our Behind The Headlines series, Lee speaks with Jingjing Li, a journalist and host for China Global Television Network (CGTN). Based in Beijing, Jingjing anchors two popular shows on the network. Today, the pair discuss the topic of how China is presented in U.S. media and whether Americans are receiving a fair

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Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization

55 journalists have been killed and hundreds more injured or detained by Israel since 2000. Yet for many Palestinian, the physical harm they face pales in comparison to the constant delegitimization of their work by in the media.

Ramzy Baroud
Romana Rubeo
By Ramzy Baroud
And Romana Rubeo
Palestinian journalists Feature photo

On January 19, during one of its raids in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh, near Al-Khalil (Hebron). This is just the latest of a staggering number of violations against Palestinian journalists and freedom of expression. A few days earlier, the head of the Palestinian

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