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

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INDEPENDENT VOICES COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH

Robert Parry / Jean-Bertrand Aristide

"The mainstream media is a conglomerate of collective corporate thought, designed to make you ignorant and unaware of the realities of the world, of the important issues, and to hide in the shadows the sacredly guarded truths of power. Our mainstream media - the large newspapers, radio and TV news stations - are dominated by billion dollar corporations, whose boards of directors reflect the 'who's who' of the corporate, political, and financial elite, with former government officials, industrialists, and bankers controlling the dispersal of information and the perspectives we are given."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

Birsen Filip / Phillip Farruggio / Alina Duarte

"Without the central role of the global news agencies, the worldwide synchronization of propaganda and disinformation would never be so efficient.
Through this "propaganda multiplier", dubious stories from PR experts working for governments, military and intelligence services reach the general public more or less unchecked and unfiltered."

Ulrich Tilgner, Middle East correspondent for German and Swiss television, 2003

Simone Gold, MD / Anthony Lowenstein / Dave DeCamp / John C. Corbally

"Despite its steady loss of credibility, the corporate media continues to operate as the propaganda-arm of the Pentagon."

Mike Whitney

Alan Stevo / Henry Wallace / Dr. Didier Raoult / Andrew Lobaczewski

"Most newspapers are part of huge conglomerates, and the policy that comes down is that you don't rock any boats. You can't make the government upset because the value of the company is the broadcast licenses, and the government will not renew them, and we can't make our corporate owners mad because they will fire us, and we can't make the advertisers mad or they will pull their advertising. So the media can't say anything that will upset the power structure. And that's what had happened to the press."

Paul Craig Roberts

Julien Mercillie / Lauren Moret / Daniele Pozzati

"To keep information from the public is the function of the corporate media."

Monica Perez / Michael Matt / Sherwood Ross / Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

"The problem is not that a computer network [Internet] offers an alternative to the information aristocracy. The true crisis is that neither the news media nor the government has enough credibility to be accepted as either truthful or impartial on their own."

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