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  Rupert Murdoch’s role in a secret project jointly financed by the US government and wealthy backers in the private sector to influence public opinion demands the attention of Australian lawmakers.    Rupert Murdoch’s rise to become the most powerful media proprietor in history was not by chance, according to documents released during the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings in Washington.  His media assets were critical to the Reagan administration’s ‘public perception’ program aimed at winning support for an aggressive policy of ‘regime change’ in Central America. This operation was...

Altercation: Toying With Treason A short history of Republicans’ long history of selling out the U.S. to help them win the White House Ron Edmonds/AP Photo President Ronald Reagan walks with CIA Director William Casey, May 24, 1984, in McLean, Virginia, as he arrives at the agency to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building. Tom Barrack is the most recent member of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign team to have been indicted for, essentially, being willing to sell out the interests of his country in exchange for payments from a foreign nation (in this case, the United Ar...

Blaming Russia for MH17 Shoot-Down: A Bum Rap? Veteran journalist and specialist on Russia, John Helmer, reports that the trial in the Netherlands of three Russians and one Ukrainian accused in the July 17, 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, killing 298, has called into serious question evidence of Russian involvement. Sad to say, the evidence the U.S. earlier claimed to have on the shoot-down apparently fits snugly into the category of "nonexistent intelligence" – the adjective actually used in a bipartisan study by the Senate Intelligence Committee to descri...

Author of Wall Street Journal “Wuhan lab” story wrote lies about Iraqi “Weapons of Mass Destruction” On May 23, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin.” Citing unnamed “current and former officials,” it claimed that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology “went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak” of COVID-19. Two days later, on May 25, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, speaking at the United Nations World Health Assembly, demanded a �...

Photo: Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images The Associated Press has received an enormous amount of criticism, including from its own staffers, for firing Emily Wilder, 22, after hiring her as a news associate just 17 days before. According to AP, Wilder was let go for “violations of AP’s social media policy.” AP’s action was clearly in response to a right-wing pressure campaign targeting Wilder for her activism in college supporting Palestinian rights. Though appalling, however, none of this should be a surprise. AP has been notably conser...