Imagine how it would be if you had only western politicians and mainstream media news to rely upon when it came to geopolitical issues. Undoubtedly you watch western legacy media news from time… unless you have wisely totally switched off from it. Likewise regarding western politicians on these kinds of issues and topics. Either way you will doubtless be aware of the kind of content they deliver, 100% in favor of whatever is the agreed state narrative ignoring all else, with a dash of speculation that bigs up the favored side and denigrates the other.
The above is what passes for informing the public when it comes to political entities unload, and journalism when it comes to the primary western news outlets. All will claim they are impartial, unbiased truth tellers simply attempting to provide the facts as they see them. Believe this at your peril. What once passed for integrity within the political sphere and for impartial journalism and news gathering in the mainstream, is now so one-sided and partisan that its true definition is propaganda. Luckily in our day and age we need no longer rely on the “information” these sources offer us.
Corporate interests will always tend to reflect the viewpoints, attitudes and agendas of the Establishment. Those who work within the spheres of established concerns such as the BBC, CNN and all the others that make up the most prominent “news” organizations all belong to the same club and as comedian George Carlin memorably stated, “You Ain’t In It” and neither are most of those who work within social media. This excludes certain well-heeled rebels such as Elon Musk of course, but in the main those who would be authentic truth tellers tend not to be of the well-heeled class. This is why it is very possible you will hear something closer to the truth from them.
This is not to say that everything on social media is more trustworthy than that which you can find in mainstream news outlets. There are plenty of individuals who wish to deliver the exact same message as you will find in the mainstream on the Ukraine conflict for instance. YouTube is full of them and search engines like Google prioritize them. In fact, using Google to search for those who see things differently from the mainstream outlets are almost impossible to find via Google and not all that easy performing a YouTube search either. Finding out who to trust is a long-term project that starts with a recommendation most times. A name is suggested such as Alexander Mercouris. Then you watch and listen to him and decide over time if you can trust he is providing something close to the reality in Ukraine at any one time.
Once you have created a subscription list on YouTube of the individuals you most trust then you have a good, solid base for understanding the other side of the Ukraine conflict that the mainstream avoids like the plague. They will tell you something of what is happening both positively and negatively for each side. They won’t talk solely on the positive aspects of the Ukrainian prospects and activities of the last 24 hours, they will deliver an overview on how both sides have fared over the last 12 or 24 hours. Whereas on mainstream news channels there is a vow of silence on a whole raft of no-no subjects and a mandatory positive spin on others. On social media, if you have found, through consistency of delivery, trustworthy sources your chances of gaining a true insight into conflicts such as that in Ukraine is far higher than through mainstream media news.
It is a rather scary and forbidding concept, to imagine our world where only the mainstream view exists. That world is the world George Orwell conceived of in his novel ‘1984’, a world where the state and its functionaries determined what was real and what was not and manipulated all aspects of news to condition their populations into accepting their distortions as fact. The present western world in a great many respects mirrors the dystopian and totalitarian world Orwell conceived of. If your view conflicts with the mandated views of the Establishment and others are influenced by you, you could be made into a non-person via the cancel culture that now dominates in the West. If you are like Scott Ritter and demand to have the free speech promised by the U.S. Constitution you may have your house raided by the FBI. The threat is always there that if you say things that the State disagrees with you could be in big trouble.
The western world, the supposedly ‘Free World’ is being turned into the ‘Fear World’ of Orwell, through an Establishment gripped by fear that it is losing its grip and is no longer as able to manipulate us as it was before. Social media has interrupted and intervened to ask questions concerning state narratives that newspapers and TV news applying actual journalism used to do. Now that mainstream news outlets are fully supportive of western state narratives there is no longer an agency within the mainstream to protect us from the abuses of power we know do emanate from the Establishment, especially at times such as these. Of course, until now it is still a relative minority who have the time and inclination to delve deeper than the mainstream narratives via social media. The majority remain the ‘Headline Surfers’ who feel they need nothing more than that to be ‘in the know’.
Those who have taken the trouble to look deeper are in for a shock. To find out just how corrupted mainstream “news” has become will hit people hard, their whole world view may change. Instead of having a degree of respect for mainstream figures in both political and media spheres they may well find themselves absolutely loathing them and will take care to avoid being exposed to lies and serial attempts to condition and brainwash them. It may not be evident just yet but the number of those who have come through the shockwave of understanding just how much the Establishment lies to us has grown very large and its effects will be seen across many election cycles. Already quite a number of politicians have fallen victim to the so-called ‘Zelensky Curse’ and I predict we will soon see the fall of a great many more.
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Some recommended internet sources on geopolitical issues:
Individuals (A-Z):
Brian Berletic
Rachel Blevins
Max Blumenthal
Russell Brand
Alex Christoforou
Emil Cosman
Ambassador Alastair Crooke
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow
Daniel Davis
Professor Glenn Diesen
George Galloway
Danny Haiphong
Katie Halper
Ambassador Chas Freeman
Levan Gudadze
Captain Matthew Hoh
Kim Iversen
Larry Johnson
Alex Krainer
Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski
Patrick Lancaster
Colonel Douglas MacGregor
Aaron Maté
Ambassador Jack Matlock
Caleb Maupin
Professor John J. Mearsheimer
Alexander Mercouris
Ray McAndrew
Lena Petrova
Professor Ted Postol
Scott Ritter
Sabby Sabs
Professor Jefrey Sachs
Professor Richard Sakwa
Sebastian Sas
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
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Websites (A-Z):
Breakthrough News
Dialogue Works
Judging Freedom
Neutrality Studies
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The Duran
The Grayzone
The New Atlas
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