06 Aug 2023

Why Is the U.S. Government Tempting Nuclear Annihilation?

By Max Blumenthal

[Publisher's note: On June 28, 2023, TheGrayzone.com's Max Blumenthal addressed the U.N. Security Council on the role of U.S. military aid to Ukraine in escalating the conflict with Russia and the real motives behind Washington’s support for Kiev’s proxy war. Below is the news site's transcript of Blumenthal's incisive remarks.]

12 Mar 2023

New World War Recipe

By Ed Newmann

01 Feb 2023

The 6th Annual Fake News Awards

By James Corbett

6th Annual Fake News Awards - The DINOs by CorebettReport.com

And now, from an undisclosed location deep beneath the Earth's surface, it's the 6th Annual Fake News Awards! Shining the spotlight of ridicule on the dumbest disinformation, the silliest smears and the most ludicrous lies of the mainstream-media dinosaurs of the past year! Which press-titutes will walk away with a DINO of shame? What mendacious government mouthpiece will commit seppuku after being exposed as a deceiving sack of excrement ? And who will walk away with the greatest dishonor of them all: the Fake News Story of the Year? Find out in this year's exciting Award Show Extravaganza ... .

11 Apr 2022

Don't Believe Everything You Hear or See

By Todd McGreevy

James Hickman's essay "The Media Has Been the Number-One Cause of War Since 1989" cannot be overstated enough. One is reminded of the scene in what Reader movie reviewer Mike Schulz calls “the best movie of all time”: Citizen Kane. The classic film is all about William Randolph Hearst and depicts him effectively starting the War in Cuba that Hickman refers to. In the film, Hearst's retort to the field reporter who told him there was no conflict there is legendary: "You provide the prose poems; I'll provide the war."

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