Media & Manipulation

Everything on mass communication and the moguls who control it.

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Trampling on a dead man’s grave, the international media are refusing to see how a 77-year-old’s act of despair is a direct consequence of political decisions.

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Post image for Spot the differences: New York Times on Russia and Occupy

When 5,000 liberals protest in Moscow, it’s front page news; but when 15,000 radicals rally in New York, they simply pretend it never happened.

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Post image for The Daily ROAR: keeping up as the world spins ever faster

Roaring the latest revolutionary news, analysis, ideas, actions, tweets, tunes, photos, videos and doodles from the front-lines of the global justice movement!

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Post image for Second issue of the Occupied Wall Street Journal is out!

This week’s issue of the independent publication includes a piece by Naomi Klein arguing why Occupy Wall Street is “the most important thing in the world.”

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Post image for Greece: when a single image speaks a thousands words

Sometimes words fail to describe the sense of disgust that arises when we are confronted with our political reality today. This photo says it all.

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Post image for How the New York Times manipulated blame for arrests

Apparently it only took 20 minutes (and an angry phone call from higher up?) to shift the blame for last night’s draconian police clampdown on Brooklyn Bridge.

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Post image for MSNBC: Lawrence O’Donnell on Wall Street police brutality

O’Donnell: “American police have once again gotten away with another crime against the American people they are sworn to serve and protect.”

Post image for Michael Moore on CNN: “Wall Street uprising will spread”

The documentary-maker went on Piers Morgan’s talk show last night to warn the US that anger against economic injustice would make protests spread.

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Trader on BBC: “Goldman Sachs rules the world”

by Jerome Roos on September 27, 2011

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Jaws collectively dropped in the BBC studio today after trader Alessio Rastani gave an eerily frank assessment of who’s really in charge of the global economy.

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Greek students seize TV station during live broadcast

by Jerome Roos on September 26, 2011

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As police attacked protesters on Syntagma Square, a group of Greek students interrupted a live news broadcast and occupied the TV station.

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