Antechinus: Hollywood Lies — White Helmets Propaganda Film….

Forget Oscar: Give The White Helmets the Leni Riefenstahl Award for Best War Propaganda Film The fact that a documentary about The White Helmets received an Oscar Award simply confirms what a glorious bubble the entertainment industry resides in. This is not a conventional documentary film. Normally we think of documentaries as films that are supposed to speak truth to power, but …

Eric Zuesse: US Lies About Crimea — Truth Helps

Things Will Get Worse Until US Stops Lying About Crimea Unless the U.S. government’s lies about Crimea — the ‘Russia seized Crimea’ narratives — become acknowledged to be lies, war between the U.S. and Russia can only continue to become increasingly likely, because the world is sliding toward World War III based upon these lies, and will therefore inevitably …

SPECIAL: Trump Trips; Preibus-Spicer Betrayal; Deception, “Gaslighting,” and Lies –The War Between Two Alternative Forms of Fake News

Below are three offerings, from Chuck Spinney, Mike Lofgren, and Jon Rappoport. Each deals with competing forms of fake news — the Trump version versus the Empire version. Both are wrong but between the two, the Empire version is more wrong. I’ve done all I can to help Donald Trump — in my view Reince …

Robert Parry: Obama Administration & Its Neo-Con Allies Create Ministry of Truth — Taxpayers Now Funding USG War Against US Citizens Seeking to Tell the Truth…

The War Against Alternative Information The U.S. government is creating a new $160 million bureaucracy to shut down information that doesn’t conform to U.S. propaganda narratives, building on the strategy that sold the bloody Syrian “regime change” war, writes Rick Sterling. The new law is remarkable for a number of reasons, not the least because …

Kevin Barrett: NYT on Syria — All the Fake News Fit to Print — NYT Deceives, Lies, & Offers No Value to the Public

New York Times on “Aleppo’s Destroyers”: All the fake news that’s fit to print The New York Times has been leading the charge against “fake news.” Yet its own reporting and editorial positions are often as one-sided, distorted, or downright mendacious as the worst of the pseudo-alternative websites. The Times’ coverage of wars, especially those of …