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newthinking

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1. Addendum: Not just Salon: The Nation Mag, Counterpunch, Project Censored, and many other

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Tue Jun 9, 2015, 07:57 AM

Jun 2015

progressive sources have been on to this story for a while.

The mainstream media reporting on wars has become narrative based (not simply biased but often untruthful). Purposely. This is very serious stuff.

It is not about "Putin", it is about modern media and our future. Marketing psychology is reaching new heights and unless we find ways to deal with it we will be lead by the nose to a very uncomfortable future.

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Salon: We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House [View all] newthinking Jun 2015 OP

Addendum: Not just Salon: The Nation Mag, Counterpunch, Project Censored, and many other newthinking Jun 2015 #1

You mean people believe "the news?" I thought we all assumed they lied, especially re WAR. nt valerief Jun 2015 #7

Yes, yes, yes! Jackpine Radical Jun 2015 #9

Why do folks refuse to get it that Russia loves NATO nuclear missiles on it's borders as much as America Fred Sanders Jun 2015 #2

You get it newthinking Jun 2015 #6

You know what would have prevented NATO expansion into Ukraine? jeff47 Jun 2015 #10

You lost me at "Karl Rove." Nitram Jun 2015 #3

Me? Salon wrote it. And if you actually dig you will find the NeoCon's are very much all over this. newthinking Jun 2015 #8

Not you, the author. Nitram Jun 2015 #17

fuck putin..... stonecutter357 Jun 2015 #4

fuck all propaganda, period. newthinking Jun 2015 #5

This article is insane. jeff47 Jun 2015 #11

Bloomberg: One year later, Crimean's prefer Russia newthinking Jun 2015 #12

Hrm...if only I had explicitly addressed this in the post. jeff47 Jun 2015 #13

Trouble is that is not what happened. Russia secured the area during what the Crimean parliment newthinking Jun 2015 #14

No, it is exactly what happened. jeff47 Jun 2015 #15

I have not been to chechnya nor do I know people there newthinking Jun 2015 #18

Because you have to personally meet them before noticing the anti-Russia bombings. jeff47 Jun 2015 #19

Take it or leave it newthinking Jun 2015 #20

Because you can't find google and type in "Chechen Rebels"? jeff47 Jun 2015 #21

1,000 Recs - swilton Jun 2015 #16