The news you see on TV or online is not really the news, or at least not all the news. It's whatever the owners of our society want you to *think* is super important to hear about and get all excited or upset about.

And that's so you won't ask questions about all the other stuff that REALLY matters.

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What relatively few westerners are aware of is that the entirety of mainstream western media  —  both liberal and conservative  —  are so biased in favor of the US and its empire-like global sphere of influence that they are almost worthless for forming an accurate understanding of what’s happening in the world.

Every foreign policy agenda of the US and its allies is reliably facilitated by the western media, because the western media do not exist primarily to report the news, they exist primarily to administer propaganda.

The New York Times has supported every war the US has waged. Western mass media focus overwhelmingly on foreign protests against governments the United States dislikes while paying far less attention to widespread protests against US-aligned governments. The only time Trump was universally showered with praise by the mass media was when he bombed Syria, while the only time Biden has been universally slammed by the mass media was when he withdrew from Afghanistan.

Kids aren’t being taught about this type of bias in school. Websites like AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check, set up to help improve “media literacy” and teach people about media biases, focus only on biases of ideological partisanship, *not* international conflicts and foreign policy.

This is entirely by design. The whole push to promote "media literacy" and improve online information has never actually been about training people to see and understand the biases of media outlets, it's been about training people *not* to see and understand them. At least not where it matters.

And this is because foreign policy is so immensely consequential. Those who run the empire don't care whether women can have an abortion or whether marginalized groups are abused by police, so they're happy for the biases of their propaganda organs to be highlighted on such matters and for everyone to pour all their energy into debating them.

What they absolutely *do* care about a great deal is the operation of the globe-spanning empire, which is held together by nonstop violence and abuse and the threat thereof.

So we are indoctrinated into supporting the US empire's agendas of war, militarism, manipulation, and resource extraction around the world, and we are trained not to look at the fact that we are being indoctrinated by sources of information who are all wildly biased in favor of that empire.

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Bed Bath & Beyond recently went bankrupt. Now Overstock has bought BB&B’s name and website (and other intellectual property), and Overstock is changing its name to Bed Bath & Beyond.

The CEO of Overstock says: “We thought we had a good operating model but a bad name; we thought Bed Bath & Beyond had a great name but a bad operating model.”

#Russia #Putin #Navalny

🚨Putin critic, Alexei Navalny sentenced to 19 years in a penal colony, on top of the 11 he's already serving!🚨

In a message posted on social media Navalny said the outcome of the case did not matter as he was also threatened with terrorism charges that could bring decades in jail

He said: "It's going to be a long sentence. It's called 'Stalinist'."

When Putin falls, Navalny will be King. Navalny's playing the long game. It's a matter of time 🙏🏾

Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007 | Ars Technica

XELON is a nasty thief