Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is.

Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is.
The act of condemnation has been cynically weaponised. The aim is not to show solidarity with Israelis. It’s to fan the flames of hatred to rationalise crimes against Palestinians.
It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day.
Guardian columnist feigns concern for two peoples ‘fated to share the same land’. But yet again he finds excuses to keep one of those people penned into a prison.
As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide.
The case builds that Israel may have invoked its infamous ‘Hannibal directive’, which requires the army to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians rather than let them be taken hostage.
It’s not just unlikely that a Palestinian rocket hit the Gaza hospital. It’s impossible. The media know this, they just don’t dare say it.
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn’t defending itself. It’s enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
The rigged system that worked so hard to rehabilitate this trio of war criminals is exactly the same system now determined to put Trump on trial.
Almost no one seems willing to hold their tongue on the latest claims. Here are my observations: not on the allegations, but on all the noise.
Highlighting the climate crisis is not ‘alarmism’, as critics say. Big Business wants an exclusive focus on climate because it downplays the true reasons for alarm.
On critical matters, our medical authorities have no interest in settling the science. Instead, battles are won in the arena of smear and insinuation.
There’s only one plausible explanation for the continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what the research may uncover.
Scapegoating Jews by twisting the left’s lexicon against elites, the far-right has handed the establishment a slur that keeps on giving
Carlson was a genuine aberration in US corporate media. Which is why he is gone – sacked by media “titan” Rupert Murdoch.
First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role.
In an age of distortion, major columnists have powerful tools and a responsibility. His latest column on Russell Brand is an object lesson in how that can go wrong.