TRUTH-TELLERS

"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct.
Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time.
If you're right and you know it, speak your mind.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."

Mahatma Gandhi

TRUTH-TELLERS 20

INDEPENDENT VOICES COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH

Willaim Engdahl / Antony Sutton

"America's fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement bought the government's 9/11 conspiracy theory. The government's account of 9/11 is contradicted by much evidence. Nevertheless, this defining event of our time, which has launched the U.S. on interminable wars of aggression and a domestic police state, is a taboo topic for investigation in the media."

Paul Craig Roberts, 2010

Isa Blumi / Ross Ashcroft / Alexander Solzhenitsyn / Andrew Cockburn

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

CIA Director William Casey (1981-1987)

Catherine Frompovich / Andrew Lobaczewski / Walden Bello

"As a journalist, if you produce dissenting reports, there are many ways to get you back in line quickly. If you don't follow the guidelines, you will not keep your job long. This system works pretty well, and it reflects established power structures.
The point is that journalists wouldn't be there unless they had already demonstrated that nobody has to tell them what to write because they are going say the right thing. If they had started off at the Metro desk, or something, and had pursued the wrong kind of stories, they never would have made it to the positions where they can now say anything they like. They have been through the socialization system."

Noam Chomsky, 1997

Joe Martino / Fletcher Prouty / John Kenneth Galbraith / Ahmed Abdulkareem

"The news media are instruments of those who exercise political and economic power. Newspapers, periodicals, radio and television stations do not act independently."

AP journalist Herbert Altschull

Christopher Bollyn / Wlliam Sloane Coffin / Russ Baker / Miko Peled

"Media corporations function like giant magnifying glasses that roam the world, highlighting facts that benefit corporate-friendly parties, leaders, allied states and voices. They also magnify facts that undermine and harm corporate-unfriendly parties, leaders, groups and voices."

David Edwards and David Cromwell, 2018

Wikileaks / Ali Vargas / Mark Curtis / Stuart Ewen

"Most Americans and Europeans get most of their news from state-controlled television, under the misconception that reporters are meant to serve the public. In fact, reporters do not serve the public. Reporters are paid employees and serve the media owners, whose company's shares are traded on Wall Street."

Daniel Estulin, 2015

"The CIA continues to maintain a close relationship with both mainstream and independent journalists. This is critical to establishing and controlling the narrative in each foreign "crisis." It is no accident that each mainstream media outlet has the exact same perspective on events like the Ukraine coup or the Venezuela attempted coup, or Hong Kong protests. Part of this is the US "deep state" or "national security state" and part of it is the increasing integration of US corporate entities into the US government. Major media outlets are owned by US corporations that also own weapons manufacturing companies and cannot be trusted to report on events objectively. Similarly, virtually every US mainstream media outlet employs "former" members of the US intelligence community to "explain" foreign events to their viewers."

Daniel McAdams

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