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Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 3, 2023 The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in U.S. politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organizations affiliated with opposing parties. This means that most of what is uttered or written by CNN is "fake news" for Republicans, and much of what appears in Republicans ...
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Can Journalists Be Activists? | Jan-Werner Mueller
News icons created by Freepik - FlaticonAt a time when autocrats are consolidating power by attacking “the media,” old debates about journalism’s role in a democracy and how journalists should conduc ...
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Right or Left: The Media is Programming You — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 25, 2021 So, you line up for the jab because everything you hear and see says you should. Everything tells you how safe and effective it is, right? Right? It see ...
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The End of the Dream | John Michael Greer
Oct. 20, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a while now ...
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The Cultural Genocide in Palestine: On Sally Rooney’s Decision to Boycott Israel | Ramzy Baroud
Best-selling and award-winning Irish novelist Sally Rooney. (Photo: Video Grab) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 20, 2021 The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winnin ...
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Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents | Ramzy Baroud
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. (Photo: Palfest, via Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 18, 2021 The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel ...
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The Way of Participation: A Response to Paul Kingsnorth | John Michael Greer
Paul Kingsnorth, 2011. By Navjoat Kingsnorth - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0Sept. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- A fair number of my readers also follow the writings of the English writer Paul Kingsnorth, who ...
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The REAL First Rule of Fight Club — Mickey Z.
(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 23, 2021 Life in the United States of Algorithms has me thinking about Fight Club again — reading snippets, posting quotes, and watching YouTube cli ...
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BOOKS: The Doctrine of High Magic: Chapter 1 | John Michael Greer
June 9, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical ...
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Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.
(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the e ...
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The Legacy of Luxor | John Michael Greer
May 19, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late last year, before veering off on several necessary tangents, we brought the story of American occultism up to the point when the Theosophical Society was hitting ...
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