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And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to . . . María Corina Machado? Wait, what’s going on here? Why does it seem like, far from celebrating a champion of peace, the Nobel Committee is in fact paving a path to war? Let’s find out!
James talks to Alison Morrow about his new documentary series, The Media Matrix. They discuss the history of the mass media, its effects on the population, how media power translates to political power, the printing press’ role in the creation of the nation-state and the electronic media’s role in the creation of globalization, where media technology is heading and how people can defend themselves against the dehumanization influence of electronic media.
It’s difficult for us to appreciate just how incredible it was for those who first witnessed communication from a distance with a disembodied electric ghost. In fact, it was almost impossible for people to understand this type of communication in anything but spiritual terms. Even the word “medium” evokes the specter of contact with the spirit world. . . .
So how does what’s going on in Sri Lanka affect all of us worldwide? And what can we do about it? Today, let’s examine the roots of the Sri Lankan crisis and explore how that crisis affects us all.
Who said education was boring? On the contrary. Knowing more about the world, improving your skills and achieving success is electrifying and addictive. But first you have to learn how to learn. Autodidacticism is the process of learning about a skill or a subject without a formal teacher, and today Richard Grove of GetAutonomy.info is here to help us get started on the lifelong quest of self-improvement and self-learning.
Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn’t always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs our lives taking us? This is the story of The Media Matrix.
From the Renaissance to the Reformation, from the fall of feudalism to the rise of capitalism, from the Scientific Revolution to the Industrial Revolution, from the way we order our thoughts to what we choose to think about, nothing survived the printing revolution intact. Our world is the world that the printing press has created.
As you'll no doubt have seen by now, The Corbett Report issued its REAL Fake News Awards yesterday to some of the worst fake news offenders of 2017. And if you haven't seen it by now, here it is. But as you can imagine, it's impossible to cram in all the lowlights...
A nasty flu bug has made this week a write-off. So what did I miss from the news? Keep me updated with all the latest in the comments below!
Take a recent story that bubbled up amid all the hype about the all-time record highs in the "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" manipulated stock markets. You might have seen it. It was reported all over the usual MSM dinosaur fake news financial press outlets. Here's...
Last week we took a look at five mind-boggling new technologies that the government is converting (or is going to convert) into tools for spying on you. But as I noted at the end of that article, we shouldn't be so quick to accept reports about these new technologies...
by James Corbett TheInternationalForecaster.com February 23, 2016 Quick: what's the first thing you remember about the climate conference in Paris last December? The weather astrologers' absurd resolution to control the amount of temperature rise the world will...
Scientists and engineers can spend years of their lives in painstaking trial-and-error experimentation to develop a breakthrough new technology . . . and the military-industrial complex can find a way to militarize it in mere hours. (Assuming that the research wasn't...
by James Corbett TheInternationalForecaster.com February 16, 2016 You might remember that a couple of weeks ago we launched an open source investigation into the war on cash. As I noted at the time, the investigation was spurred by an uptick in anti-cash rhetoric over...
