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Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity

Open a corporate media website on any given day and you will find someone, somewhere blaming social media for something. No claim is too absurd.

Last week, journalist Sean Williams, who writes for the New Yorker, New Republic and Wired, tweeted us in a state of high anxiety:

'I just want you to know you're ruining the national dialogue and pushing more people towards right wing populism. Really.'

Quite a claim for a project that began in Southampton's...

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A Liberal Pillar Of The Establishment – ‘New Look’ Guardian, Old-Style Orthodoxy

As Noam Chomsky has often remarked : 'liberal bias is extremely important in a sophisticated system of propaganda.' One major news outlet that Chomsky had in mind was the New York Times , but the same applies in the UK. As a senior British intelligence official noted of the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan:

'It is always helpful for governments who want to get the Guardian readers of the world on board to have a humanitarian logic.'

This suggests that r...

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