The media’s job is to create uncertainty, doubt and confusion. Our job is to explode that lie, denying them and the political class an alibi, Jonathan Cook told a peace rally in Bristol on the weekend.
Why Media Have Failed Gaza
Category: Disinformation
Patrick Lawrence: Of Journalists, Students & Power
Student protesters with their clarity of words and actions are riveted to reality, while the media class flinches from it.
KOSOVO AT 25: Britain’s Covert Propaganda Over Kosovo
Tony Blair’s government coordinated a secret campaign to convince the public NATO’s 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia was a just cause, writes Patrick O’Reilly.
Caitlin Johnstone: CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis
The stunning propaganda segment in defence of police repression of anti-genocide protesters drew parallels between fear experienced by Jews in the 1930s and supposed fears of theatrical Zionists at UCLA.
Profs Urge NYT to Probe False Oct. 7 Rape Story
More than 50 journalism professors call for an independent review into the debunked NYT story “Screams Without Words.”
An Israeli Ambassador & the Failure of Media
New Zealand national broadcaster TVNZ had a chance to hold Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand to account. What transpired was hard to look at, writes Mick Hall.
Vijay Prashad: Elites Afraid to Talk About Palestine
The Western political class has used all tools at its disposal to support Israel’s genocide while criminalizing solidarity.
From Illegal Israeli Settlements to US Campus Censorship
Alan MacLeod looks into The Network Contagion Research Institute and its new report alleging that Middle Eastern funding of U.S. universities has helped unleash a torrent of anti-Jewish hatred.
Russiagate & Gaza
Instead of criticizing a government credibly accused of genocide, a leading Democrat applies a debunked partisan smear to pro-Palestine protesters and wants the F.B.I. to investigate them, writes Elizabeth Vos.
Guardian’s ‘Hamas Mass Rape’ Story Doesn’t Add Up
Jonathan Cook addresses the latest in a continuous cycle of stories about the events of Oct. 7.