THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: Harvard Poll – only 2% of young adults trust the mainstream media to do the “right thing” on a regular basis

Source -zengardner.com, Phillip Schneider – There is an information awakening taking place right now, and mainstream media is being outed for what it really is: corporate and government controlled propaganda. People are turning to alternative news sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a result, the old guard of media is collapsing at free-fall…

MIND GAMES: Dolphins Have Human-Like Intelligence And Their Own ‘Language’ – By Anna LeMind

Source – themindunleashed.org – Scientists at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia in the US, used MRI scanners to map the brains of dolphins and then compared the received data with that of other intelligent mammals, particularly primates. The scans showed that dolphin brains are up to five times larger for their body size compared to other animals of…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: How the mainstream media became a neo-Stalinist propaganda regime for wealthy neocons – By Nafeez Ahmed

Source – mediareform.org.uk – This exclusive investigation by Nafeez Ahmed is part of our series of posts on Media Democracy which people wrote in response to our invitation to reflect on how best to secure media democracy in the run up to our Media Democracy Festival. By Nafeez Ahmed John Pilger once wrote that journalism is the first…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: The five most important books of 2015 that have been vilified, attacked or outright censored

Source – naturalnews.com, By Ethan A. Huff – It’s been a big year for independent media. Our own Natural News launched hundreds of new partner websites to increase our content offerings; our ally in the truth-telling realm, Sharyl Attkisson launched a brand new television program entitled “Full Measure” that deals with important subject matter not…

AMERIKA: Koch Spy Agency Led by Voter Fraud Huckster – By Brendan Fischer

Source – prwatch.org – The Kochs have been complaining about a “lack of civility in politics” as they seek to boost their public image–but one of their top operatives helped propel perhaps the most egregious case of race-baiting voter fraud hucksterism in recent years. At the same time that the Kochs have been on a…

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS: Z Media Institute, Alt-Media for Social Change

Source – zcomm.org – “…Z Media Institute was founded in 1994…to teach radical politics, media and organizing skills, the principles and practice of creating non-hierarchical institutions and projects, activism, and vision and strategy for social change”: Z Media Institute …Was founded in 1994 by cofounders of Z Magazine (1988) and South End Press (1977) to…

BLACK FRIDAY: Riyadh to behead 55, found guilty of sedition in a single day

Source – rt.com – Saudi Arabia is planning to execute more than 50 people, found guilty of terrorism, in a single day. The move was immediately slammed by Amnesty International, which said the Saudis are “using the guise of counter-terrorism to settle political scores.” READ MORE: Saudi Arabia’s 175 ‘mass judicial executions’ in 1 yr…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: An Awakened Humanity is Thankfully Breaking Free From Mass Media

Source – wakingtimes.com – Anyone who is awakened to the worldwide horrors the US, ISIS and their allies are imposing on the rest of humanity knows that the thing that makes these horrors worse is the accompanying deceptive mainstream media 24/7 lies. There’s nothing worse than seeing Western mainstream media continue to portray ISIS as…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: Why White Terrorists Aren’t Called “Terrorists” – By Scott Timberg

Source – mintpressnews.com – The white supremacists who shot Black Lives Matter protestors qualify as terrorists—but we won’t call them that: The script has gotten familiar by now: Ideologically driven Muslim or foreigner does something violent and awful, and they are dubbed a terrorist. Ideologically driven white person does something violent and awful, and the…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY:, Selling Fear Through the Calculated Use of Violence – By Stephen Lendman

Source – sjlendman.blogspot.ca – The US Army Operational Concept for Terrorism (TRADOC Pamphlet No. 525-37, 1984) called it “the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature…through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear”: Fear-mongering is longstanding US policy, facilitated by false flags – state-sponsored terrorism,…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: Majority Of Science Publishing Is Controlled By Just Six Companies – By Ethan A. Huff

Source – http://www.naturalnews.com – The flow of science in this modern age is largely controlled by just six corporate publishing groups, which by calculated design have been gobbling up the journal market since at least the 1970s. And a new study out of Canada reveals that this mass consolidation of publishing power is, to a…

MIND GAMES: From Console to Trigger, How the Pentagon “Exploits” Video Game Culture to Wire Youth for War

Source – democracynow.org – Among the issues tackled in the new documentary film “Drone” is the connection between video games and military recruitment. We air a clip from the film and speak to its director, Tonje Hessen Schei, as well as drone war whistleblower Brandon Bryant. “I think gamers should be offended that the military…

CORPRO-FASCISM: University of Chicago’s Machiavellian Professor Leo Strauss and His Neo-Nazi Neo-Cons – By Prof. Francis Boyle

Source – countercurrents.org – It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001, U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and his pro-Israeli Neo-Conservative Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme and conspire to wage a war of aggression against Iraq by manipulating the tragic events…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: What You’re Not Being Told About The “War On Terror”

Source – collectivelyconscious.net – The Saudi links to terrorism are one of the world’s worst kept “secrets”. Roughly 200 years ago, the founder of Wahhabism and the founder of the House of Saud allied together, so from the very beginning Saudi Arabia has been rooted in Wahhabist ideology. To resolve a conflict, you have to understand…

COVER-UP: Amazon.com bans investigative book ‘Nobody Died at Sandy Hook’ because it disagrees with government version of what happened

Source – naturalnews.com – In a stunning demonstration of online book burning, Amazon.com has just banned a book because of its contents. The book Nobody Died at Sandy Hook consists of analysis from a dozen contributor authors, and it’s edited by Jim Fetzer, Ph.D.. The book concludes that Sandy Hook was a staged FEMA drill…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: The West’s Asymmetric Terrorism – By David William Pear

Source – readersupportednews.org – “The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.”—Joseph Stalin: The terrorist attacks in Paris were a tragedy, as were the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the United States. The response to those attacks is even less than Stalin’s statistic, since the victims are…

CROSSROADS: A Dangerous Crossing, The Twelve Transitional Triggers Driving Mankind – By Adrian Salbuchi

Source – newdawnmagazine.com – ‘….a dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting…’ (words spoken by the tightrope walker) – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra  – ‘Know thyself and your Enemy, and you will win all battles; Know thyself and not thy Enemy, for every victory there will be a…

CROSSROADS: 20 More Signs That The Global Elite’s Ship Is About To Sink (Part 4) – By Lance Schuttler

Source – themindunleashed.org – The accelerating downfall of the Global Cabal, or the ‘NWO’ as some people call it, is fascinating to watch. While many are aimlessly watching the highly orchestrated “presidential race,” those paying closer attention are seeing before our eyes the old paradigm collapsing. Continue to dream big my friends, we are in for…

MIND GAMES: Nobody is Born a Terrorist, the Truth About Terrorism – By Chris Agnos

Source – upliftconnect.com – Could you feel empathy for someone who has committed an act of terrorism?: Forgive them, for they know not what they do – Jesus Christ If you’re reading this article, I’m impressed. It is quite taboo in Western culture to have any view other than complete and total contempt for those…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: The Horrifying Terror Attack Last Week that You Aren’t Hearing About

Source – alternet.org – Reporting from Beirut, New York Times’ Anne Barnard has a piece titled, “Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten” out today. In the article she details the double sucide-attack that took place in Lebanon on Thursday and killed 43 people. She contrasts the outpouring of support that Paris has received over…

REALPOLITIK: The Paris Attacks, Our Selective Grief And Outrage – By Chris Graham

Source – informationclearinghouse.info – If you didn’t know better, you could be excused for believing that the planning behind the latest terrorist attack in Paris is about more than just causing widespread death and fear in the West. It looks like it’s also designed to highlight our selective outrage. Overnight, dozens of people have been…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: BBC Journalist Comes Clean, “Believe Nothing You Read Or Watch”

Source – collectivelyconscious.net/ – “I am ashamed to be a journalist,” says grieving BBC radio host. John Darvall is a BBC radio host who recently had an epiphany over the state of journalism, after realizing the industry he’d served so well wouldn’t think twice about screwing him over for a good story. Darvall, who hosts…

HIT LIST: Targeted Killings, Drones, and the Myth of Precision – By Scott N. Romaniuk

Source – geopoliticalmonitor.com – A number of different instruments exist for targeted killing (TK) operations that can be used in counterterrorism (CT) and counterinsurgency (COIN) operations: targeted killings in the form of helicopter attacks; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or “drones”; targeted bombings; targeted shootings; and Special Forces operations. The sophistication of each of them varies,…

PROPAGANDA: 5 of 6 Syrian Hospitals Allegedly Hit by Russian Airstrikes Don’t Exist – By Stuart Hooper

Source – 21stcenturywire.com – Some basic fact checking would have saved the Western media from this embarrassment. Watch a video of this report here: The Russian Defence Ministry has openly attacked claims launched by Western mainstream media outlets that their mission in Syria has been targeting hospitals and civilians. Major General Konoshenkov said this: “I would…

MIND GAMES: 10 Conspiracy Theories from the Right-Wing Fringe That Have Invaded American Political Life

Source – awdnews.com, By Mark Potok and Don Terry – “There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.” FRANCIS BACON, Of Suspicion, 1625 America, as the historian Richard Hofstadter famously noted in 1964, is a place peculiarly given to “the paranoid style” of politics — the idea that history is no accident,…

REALPOLITIK: Divided Loyalties and Growing Dissent inside the Pentagon – By Preston James Ph.D

Source – veteranstoday.com – There is growing dissent inside the Pentagon associated with the divided political loyalties of various factions: Slowly but surely more and more Pentagon officials and their subordinates are beginning to wake up and understand that they have been seduced to fight foreign wars of aggression for the World’s largest Organized Crime…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: Seymour Hersh’s News Report Banned in U.S., is Finally Confirmed in Turkey

Source – washingtonsblog.com, By Eric Zuesse – The news-report that the famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh could not find an American publisher for, and that was consequently published only in Britain, has now been publicly confirmed by a research study into the matter, a study whose findings were made public on October 21st by a…

REALPOLITIK: Vladimir Putin and the KGB in East Germany – By Mark Hackard

Source – espionagehistoryarchive.com – Retired KGB Colonel Vladimir Usoltsev shares his psychological portrait of “Volodya” – his one-time subordinate and current Russian President Vladimir Putin, from their time serving together in a KGB intelligence group in Dresden, East Germany, during the 1980s.  The supply of episodes I remember, ones which I could expound without the risk…

FOOD FRAUD: Washington Post Columnist Admits to Spreading GMO Propaganda While Collecting ‘Plenty’ of Money from Biotech Front Groups – By J. D. Heyes

Source – naturalnews.com – Readers of Natural News know that most mainstream, legacy newspapers pretty much parrot the corporate line on everything from finances to banking to industry and food, especially genetically modified food. As noted in a recent TruthWiki entry, one reporter who regularly shills for GMOs and profits from it is Tamar Haspel…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: Mention the Social Media Site Tsu.co on Facebook, Instagram, or Privately on Facebook Messenger – It Won’t Work

Source – money.cnn.com – Try mentioning the social media website Tsu.co on Facebook or Instagram — or even in a private conversation on Facebook Messenger. It won’t work. Facebook (FB, Tech30) is blocking any link to Tsu.co on every platform it owns, including Messenger and Instagram. It even went back and deleted more than 1…