A man with a rifle walked into an Indiana mall and opened fire in a food court Sunday evening. A law-abiding citizen with a permit to carry a handgun responded in seconds and was able to shoot and kill the suspect, ending the rampage.

In a press conference dripping with a mix of exasperation and dry-witted sarcasm, two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Southern California threw a bucket of cold water on media and government efforts to whip the public into a state of fear over the latest Covid-19 uptick.

    In a familiar pattern following the assassination of a public figure, the worldwide media is showing little inclination to dig deeper into the recent shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.   

Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn't always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs our lives taking us? This is the story of The Media Matrix. The post The Media Matrix first appeared on The Corbett Report.

From the Renaissance to the Reformation, from the fall of feudalism to the rise of capitalism, from the Scientific Revolution to the Industrial Revolution, from the way we order our thoughts to what we choose to think about, nothing survived the printing revolution intact. Our world is the world that the printing press has created.

La persécution d’Assange est la plus grande menace à la liberté de la presse en Occident depuis des années. C’est aussi un monument éclatant de la fraude des autodafés américains et britanniques. Source : Glenn GreenwaldTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

President Joe Biden’s Saudi trip, having ended as a big nothingburger and with no immediate deliverables on oil production, has already descended into a “he said, she said” back-and-forth of contradicting accounts.

Oh, look: Nancy Pelosi is pushing legislation that stands to benefit her significantly thanks to a couple of brand new, multi-million dollar trades she has made. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before…

Here is something you need to know about Washington, DC: It’s a big club. The membership includes Republicans, Democrats, bureaucrats, lobbyists, journalists, and, most importantly — not you. After yapping at each other’s heels all day in the halls of Congress and on TV, they often spend their evenings palling around in DC’s many bars and restaurants. Like Morton’s The Steakhouse, which is where our story begins.

Make no mistake: Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you do, these power-hungry elitists will be coming after your livelihood next. We are all Dutch farmers now.

Before Russia’s invasion made Ukraine a worldwide cause célèbre, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s nation was seen as a work in progress, a fledgling democracy still plagued by corruption and malign outside influence.   

Election integrity experts are sounding the alarm that many election workers will leave their positions on the front lines of democracy unless they are protected from the types of threats and harassment that hundreds of them experienced after the 2020 election.   

When it comes to British intelligence, there are three rules: (1) Trust no one, (2) Trust nothing that they say... The post Subscribercast #66 – The Undeclared War vs Slow Horses first appeared on Spy Culture.

Noam Chomsky avec David Barsamian, Transcription de l’interview Chronicles of Dissent

Source : David Barsamian, Chomsky.infoTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Expectations were low and still the US president managed to disappoint.

“I hate the word Holocaust,” says Dutch activist Jaap Hamburger, who lost many relatives in the Nazi genocide.

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