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How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

by Alex KantrowitzFebruary 20, 2020

When it built its global media team, Twitter didn’t prepare for possible scenarios in which employees with access to sensitive data and close relationships with foreign governments might use it to spy,...

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Viral Posts Spread Iran-‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Theory

by FactCheck.orgFebruary 18, 2020

Facebook posts shared by tens of thousands tell of an elaborate “deep state” conspiracy by top Democrats to “drag” President Donald Trump into a war with Iran — despite the...

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#1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home

by Joshua ChoFebruary 13, 2020

After the illegal assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, FAIR (1/9/20) noted that the corporate media offered no moral objections to murdering another country’s high-ranking state official. The...

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Trump administration seeks to demonize Iran. Hollywood’s been doing that for year

by The Washington PostJanuary 19, 2020

There was the time that Iran pursued a secret nuclear-weapons program with North Korea and possibly facilitated the killing of dozens of people at CIA headquarters. There was the 1979...

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Media, Science and Tech,

Under US Pressure, Social Media Companies Suspend Venezuelan, Iranian & Syrian Accounts

by Ben NortonJanuary 16, 2020

The Donald Trump administration is ramping up its information war against Venezuela, Iran, and Syria. And it has enlisted social media platforms as weapons in...

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Media, Politics,

Tucker Carlson: DC Insiders Push For War With Iran

by Fox NewsJanuary 12, 2020

It's harder to get rich and powerful in D.C. during peacetime; our leaders have a built-in bias for war.

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Inauthentic Twitter Accounts Continue Pushing For War With Iran

by Geoff GolbergJanuary 10, 2020

How Twitter’s negligence allows nefarious actors to distort the public debate

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Is Western Media Credible Anymore?

by Zamir Ahmed AwanDecember 13, 2019

Western media is spreading fake news and fabricating stories with evil intentions. Western Media is biased and creating unrest and chaos in various parts of...

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Media, Politics,

Congress Blocks Access To The Iranian

by The IranianNovember 20, 2019

A tipster has informed us that The Iranian is currently blocked by Congressional servers and as such, the site can not be accessed by anyone...

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Fighting Back Against The Israel Lobby: Ordinary Americans Can Organize And Win

by Philip GiraldiSeptember 25, 2019

During many years of writing about or describing the terrible damage that the “special relationship” with Israel has done to the United States the question...

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Media, Politics,

The Trump Administration Is Losing The Narrative Battle Over Iran

by Caitlin JohnstoneSeptember 17, 2019

I’m expected to write something about the Trump administration’s warmongering against Iran over an attack on a Saudi oil refinery, because that’s typically what I do in...

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Persian Wikipedia: An Independent Source Or A Tool Of The Iranian State?

by Sina ZekavatSeptember 12, 2019

During a recent event titled “Professional meeting on the application of Wikipedia tactics in communications”, held at Iran’s Ministry of Culture, a female audience member asked:...

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‘A Breath of Fresh Air’ As Pamela Anderson Takes Meghan McCain To Task Over US War Crimes

by Eoin HigginsSeptember 6, 2019

"Pamela Anderson talking about how war crimes need to be punished and of course Meghan McCain is crying about it." [dropcap]F[/dropcap]riday's edition of The View became the site...

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How Voice Of America Persian Became A Trump Administration PR Machine

by The InterceptAugust 13, 2019

Journalists at VOA Persian have been lashing out at Americans they deem unsupportive of Trump’s Iran policy.

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Western Media Creating A Climate For War With Iran

by Gregory ShupakJuly 5, 2019

Media outlets are creating a climate for a US military attack on Iran by hyping the idea that Iran is an imminent threat to peace,...

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Fake MEK Persona Has Been Getting Published By Right-Wing Outlets

by The InterceptJune 10, 2019

Heshmat Alavi is a persona run by a team of people from the political wing of the MEK. This is not and has never been a real person.

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Mainstream Media Setting Up Iran As New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted

by Janine JacksonMay 20, 2019

The Washington Post editorial’s headline (5/14/19) had the US “drifting” toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the “world’s superpower somehow having no agency...

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Four Simple Steps The U.S. Media Could Take To Prevent A Trump War With Iran

by Mehdi HasanMay 17, 2019

The sad reality is that many in the media are, wittingly or unwittingly, are complicit in this administration’s cynical and dangerous attempt to draw Iran into an armed conflict.

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The Media’s Shameful Handling Of Bolton’s Iran Threat Claims Recalls The Run-Up To The Iraq War

by Ben ArmbrusterMay 12, 2019

Media-savvy U.S. government officials, political operatives, and lawmakers and their staffs from all political parties and ideological persuasions have no doubt, throughout the history of...

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Media, Politics,

With US On The Warpath, Iran’s Press TV The Latest Target For Google’s Political Censorship

by Alexander RubinsteinApril 23, 2019

Press TV — the Iranian government-funded TV news outlet — has been “shut down” on Google’s platforms, including YouTube and Gmail. The move coincides with similar...

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‘Renounce Violence’ Demand By NY Times Is Almost Exclusively Of Muslims

by Adam JohnsonMarch 30, 2019

A FAIR survey of the phrase “renounce violence” in the New York Times over the past 10 years shows that 95 percent of the time the demand...

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Censorship Tightens As Governments Lose Control

by Tom LuongoMarch 21, 2019

Governments have lost control of the narrative that they are in control of events. Everyday I wake up to another instance of outrageous censorship from...

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Sorry BBC, Qassem Soleimani Is A Master Strategist, Not A Cartoon Villain

by Marco CarnelosMarch 18, 2019

Last night, BBC Two aired a primetime documentary on a senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who has become a figure of nationalist adulation...

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Media, Politics,

The Great Ilhan Omar Debate | Full Frontal With Samantha Bee

by The IranianMarch 14, 2019

Samantha Bee dedicated eight minutes of her show to discussing Representative Ilhan Omar, whose recent comments about the United States’ relationship with Israel have been the...

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Stephen Colbert Smears Tulsi Gabbard To Her Face While Telling Zero Jokes

by Caitlin JohnstoneMarch 14, 2019

Hawaii Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where instead of the light, jokey banter about politics and who...

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CNN Foreign Policy Gatekeepers Vilify Tulsi Gabbard For Her Anti-Intervention Dissent

by Kevin GosztolaMarch 13, 2019

The establishment news media is largely uninterested in listening to Gabbard attempt to persuade voters that the U.S. should quit waging wars to overthrow governments....

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The Propaganda Multiplier

by Off GuardianMarch 9, 2019

How global news agencies and Western media report on geopolitics.

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Media, Politics,

How Pierre Omidyar Is Funding A Global Information War And Shaping The Media Landscape

by MintPress NewsFebruary 18, 2019

Through his purchase of influence over the daily flow of information to American media consumers, a dizzying array of connections to the national security state,...

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Media, Politics,

Untangling The Web Of The Saudi-Israeli-US Propaganda War On Iran

by Behnam GharagozliFebruary 5, 2019

Shortly after the horrific attacks on 9/11, it was discovered that there was an American plan to dismantle the regimes of seven countries: Iraq, Syria,...

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Why Anti-Interventionists Will Be Smeared As Russian Assets

by Caitlin JohnstoneFebruary 4, 2019

There will never, ever be an antiwar voice who the political/media class and their centrist followers espouse as good and valid.

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