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Tag: media
The grifterverse and Russell Brand
Why did so many hard-right celebs rush to support a supposedly left-leaning conspiracy-monger while the left itself has not?
It still isn’t wage rises fuelling inflation
The media is doing its usual job of trying to convince us to “show restraint” on pay claims – it’s a scam.
This is queer breadtube: 6 youtubers to stuff your void with
George F presents a selection of essential queer anarchist creators from Youtube.
‘In absence there is greater presence’
Farrah Akbik reflects on the aftermath of the shooting of journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh by Israeli soldiers and the incredible disrespect which has …
Notes from the US: OAN out
We can start with some good news this month.
A response to fake news
We can picture the relationship between freedom of speech and democracy as a beautiful love story.
Tories are living in fear of direct action’s rise
It took nearly two years but just one action for Extinction Rebellion to make it onto the Tories’ prestigious “so dangerous they should…
Mutu: rethinking our radical media
The seriousness of our times hardly needs restating.
A-Infos: The original anarchist newswire
At around the same time as Schnews was setting up its soon to be famous freesheet in 1994, before the advent of modern social media, a group of ana…
The anarchist media list 2018
The Anarchist Federation in London launched a new podcast yesterday, adding a welcome new voice to what is currently a very short list of anarchis…
Corbyn and the MSM: Thoughts on left-wing media discussions
Peter Marshall considers the popular trope that “journalists just lie” against a more structural take on the production of media as propaganda.
Germany: Media firms hand unpublished G20 riot footage to cops
Just days after police raided dozens of properties nationwide it has emerged that Hamburg cops were given hundreds of gigabytes of raw footage by m…
Institutional bias: The BBC and climate change damage
David Edwards and David Cromwell contrast Big Media and Auntie Beeb’s coverage of Hurricane Harvey and the South Asian floods, where a Weste…
G20: We won the battle, elites are winning the media war
Indymedia Germany has, as with most other branches of the free media project, been ailing over the last few years (including its UK counterpart, wh…
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Antifascists mobilise after racist pogroms
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Filton sentencing explainer
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No consent to confinement
UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
