Yes, believe it or not, May is already upon us. To celebrate that fact, I’ll officially open the May Open Thread for discussion…
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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)
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.
We’re All Dutch Farmers Now
Episode 420 – Mass Media: A History
Join James Corbett for today’s special edition of The Corbett Report podcast, where he walks you through Mass Media: A History, a 3-lesson, 6+ hour online course examining the history of media, exploring media’s impact on society, and revealing where technological developments in media technology are taking us in the future. With lectures in audio and video formats, hyperlinked transcript, recommended reading and study guides, this course takes you on a whirlwind tour of over 500 years of history and shows you what the future of media might look like and why it matters.
The Assassination of Abe
Abe Shot: An Open Source Investigation
Ex-Japanese Prime Minister has been shot in Nara, Japan. Little is known beyond that at this point, as this story is still developing. I will be preparing a report on the latest development for this weekend’s subscriber newsletter. Corbett Report members are invited to log in and post links to specific information regarding this event. Corbett Report members are invited to log in and post links to specific information regarding this event.
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The Ratings Game: How the Banking Mafia Operates
Five years ago in the pages of this very column I examined "The Ratings Game: Rating agencies as weapons of economic warfare." In that article I explained how the major credit rating agencies—Standard & Poor's (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch Ratings—act as adjuncts...
9/11 Whistleblowers
“But someone would have talked,” say the self-styled skeptics who believe the government’s official conspiracy theory of 9/11. But there’s a problem with this logically fallacious non-argument. “Someone” did talk. In fact, numerous people have come out to blow the...
Another Conspiracy Confirmed: How the Plunge Protection Team Rigs the Markets
As I pointed out in this week's #PropagandaWatch video, the stock market is often portrayed in the financial media as a magical crystal ball that can predict the future and see into the hearts and minds of men. We are routinely told that it shows us the resilience of...
True Lies: The Financial Press Just Admitted the Markets are a Sham
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...
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...
5 Ridiculous New Year Predictions (Guaranteed To Not Come True!)
Happy New Year, everybody!... ...Right? It is going to be a happy new year, right? Regime change operations in Iran and nuclear button talk in North Korea and biometric banking and a million other concerns beside, it is going to be a happy new year, isn't it? You see,...
2017: The Year of Technocracy (Confirmed!)
As you no doubt remember, dear reader, I kicked off 2017 with my customary look at the year ahead. This year's prediction? "2017: The Year of Technocracy." As I observed lo those many months ago: "I find it more and more difficult to shake the conviction that...