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Interview 1736 – James Corbett on Media, Truth and Power

Interview 1736 – James Corbett on Media, Truth and Power


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.

Episode 422 – What Hath God Wrought (The Media Matrix — Part 2)

Episode 422 – What Hath God Wrought (The Media Matrix — Part 2)


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. . . .

We’re All Sri Lankan Farmers Now


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.

Autodidacticism – #SolutionsWatch

Autodidacticism – #SolutionsWatch


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.

The Media Matrix

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.

Episode 421 – The Gutenberg Conspiracy (The Media Matrix — Part 1)

Episode 421 – The Gutenberg Conspiracy (The Media Matrix — Part 1)


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.

NEWSLETTER

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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!

4 Privacies You Didn’t Know You Lost

We all know that privacy is a thing of the past, right? Followers of The Corbett Report will see past the metadata lie and the PRISM limited hangout to the underlying reality of the all-pervasive Big Brother surveillance grid. CALEA and the Stellar Wind. The CIA...

Cash Wars: The People Strike Back?

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...

3 Stories That Prove We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. Heck, we're not even on the map. In case you haven't noticed, things are starting to get crazy out there. Not just economically (with another global contraction already well under way) or financially (with teetering...

Here Comes WHO: Zika Hype Goes Global

It's official: the Zika outbreak sweeping Latin America is now a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The World Health Organization has now declared it, so that's that. Don't worry your pretty little microcephalitic head about it, though, they're already...

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