Media & Manipulation

Everything on mass communication and the moguls who control it.

Noam Chomsky: “Obama has no moral center”

by ROAR Collective on January 15, 2013

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In an interview with Al Jazeera, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky says intellectuals have a moral duty to hold centers of power to account.

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Insurgent Anarchism: the new networked resistance

by Nozomi Hayase on December 18, 2012

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With the advent of the internet, a huge shift has occurred from the centralized mass media to the decentralized network power of the new media.

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Post image for The media witch hunt goes on: stop austerity in Greece!

Three years down the line, with Europe steadily driving Greece to the brink, the international media continues its smear campaign against the Greek people.

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Post image for How the media de-politicized the suicide on Syntagma

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