They understand that if they lose control of the narrative, they won’t be able to deploy their armies anymore.
Caitlin Johnstone: An Empire Fears Its Students
Category: Propaganda
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.
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.
Edward Said Warned of Anti-Palestine McCarthyism on Campus
As students rise up across the U.S., Said’s words resonate as a scathing condemnation of the hypocrisy and corruption of liberal institutions, writes Seraj Assi.
Chris Hedges: Requiem for The NYT
Reality rarely penetrates the Byzantine and self-referential court of the paper, which was on full display at the recent memorial for Joe Lelyveld, who died earlier this year.
Sick Cultures: When Belief Systems Turn Pathological
How Western Media Built the Case for Genocide
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalized accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are serving as propagandists, writes Jonathan Cook.
Shielding the Nation Starving Gaza
The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they’re doing when they cover Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians as though it’s a weather report, writes Caitlin Johnstone.