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Weapons of mass distraction

By Renegade Inc

Once again the west finds itself back in a familiar position with the press parroting one assured narrative, while the public is increasingly sceptical about their claims. So what is really going on? And have we not learned anything from interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya? Here to discuss the role of the media in support of the Western headlong rush to war is the economist and political analyst, Shabbir Razvi and former army officer, detective and counter-terrorism intelligence officer Charles Shoebridge.

When the press attacks - the Times’ & BBC’s war on truth

By Claire Connelly

It speaks volumes about the limitations of our democracy that a small group of academics and journalists are being attacked by the BBC and Times, simply for doing their job. Do their respective smear campaigns show us the limits of what we are now allowed to question?

The ‘liberal’ media bringing us WW3

By Daniel Margrain

People do not have much of an appetite for more war, and yet this is not reflected in the pages of the elite corporate media, TV or radio debates and discussions. Daniel Margrain takes a look at the news propaganda around Syria and why it does not stand up to a moments scrutiny.

Is corporate journalism betraying the people of the Middle East?

By Daniel Margrain

The mainstream corporate media collectively fail in their duty to report the facts in the Middle East. It’s agenda-driven all the way -
time and time again. Daniel Margrain lays out the facts so you can see a perspective that won’t get reported in the mainstream outlets.

The Guardian, White Helmets, and silenced comment

By Professor Tim Hayward

In the crudest of ironies, The Guardian recently published a pro-imperialist article claiming critical discussion of Syria’s White Helmets had been ‘propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government’. It also closed its comment section, refused the journalists identified in the piece a right of reply, and declined to publish a considered response from a group of concerned academics. So much for Comment is Free. Since The Guardian has refused to do so, we have posted the piece in full, on behalf of the group, here at Renegade Inc.