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by Jeremy Earp
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 18, 2023
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen
As mainstream U.S. media outlets pause to remember the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it’s clear that there’s a lot they hope we’ll forget – first and foremost, the media’s own active complicity in whipping up public support for the war.
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with Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Feb 25, 2023
Legendary investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, tells us all about the story he broke that describes in great detail how the U.S. blew up the Nordstream pipelines in a covert “act of war” against Russia. Plus, Mickey Huff, of Project Censored joins us to speak to Ralph about the state of the so-called “free press.”
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Feb 24, 2023
Veteran New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth dissects the role of the media in concocting a false narrative portraying Trump as a ‘Russian asset’ rather than a homegrown horror.
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Feb 10, 2023
Matt Taibbi has published an investigation about a vast propaganda campaign called “Hamilton 68,” launched a year after Donald Trump won the presidency, to smear critics of the Democratic Party, from the left and the right, as Russian assets.
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Declassified UK on Dec 1, 2022
Join the Declassified UK team as we pose your questions to John Pilger.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Dec. 1, 2022
December 3, 2022
Massachusetts Peace Action on Dec 1, 2022
The first casualty of war, and militarism, is the truth. And the corporate mainstream media works diligently hand-in-glove with the US military-industrial complex to make this happen. Through its unquestioning repetition of government propaganda, its lies of omission, and its ratings-hungry war mongering, the media have become an essential part of the information war so endemic to US imperialism.
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Previously posted April 24 2018
This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay on Aug 27, 2021
A documentary film narrated by legendary musician and activist Roger Waters of Pink Floyd trains a harsh light on Israel’s decades-long propaganda war in the U.S.
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by John Pilger
John Pilger, Sept. 8, 2022
September 9, 2022
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Sep 1, 2022
The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a geopolitical crisis. But this is not, as the writer Patrick Lawrence points out, the only crisis. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the crisis within the western press, inflicting damage that he believes is ultimately irreparable.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
August 9, 2022
WorldBeyondWar.org on Aug 8, 2022
A webinar hosted by World BEYOND War on August 8, 2022, with Todd Pierce and David Swanson moderating.
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with John Pilger
South China Morning Post on Jul 8, 2022
Australian journalist, author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger has dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth and shining a light on inconvenient facts that often contradict the mainstream media narrative.
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by Howard Zinn
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published July 3, 2010
July 4, 2022
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jul 1, 2022
Chris Hedges speaks with journalist and author Mark Kurlansky about living in the shadow of Ernest Hemingway and his new book The Importance of Not Being Ernest.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, May 13, 2022
May 16, 2022
“In the richest country in the world, it’s an injustice that millions of people lack basic health care,” said Sen. Ed Markey.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, May 1, 2022
May 2, 2022
The madness of militarism is a collective madness. Nobody catches it from a single exposure. The repetition that makes anything else unthinkable makes the insane acceptable — and not just acceptable but righteous.
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