Carlo Rovelli is a renowned Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has made important contributions to the physics of space and time. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and a core member of Canada's Rotman…

Corporate journalists are indeed ‘masters of self-adulation’, as Noam Chomsky has observed. In fact, they have to be; or at least they have to appear to be. Consider BBC World Affairs Editor John…

A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up the crimes of elite power.



However, the appalling violence and destruction being inflicted in Gaza…

Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes known as a ‘Gallery of Torture’. For around three euros, visitors can view an exotic range of devices…

Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media. Indeed, it is a requirement. Rather than serving the public interest by fully exposing the brutal machinations of power, state-corporate media shield Western governments and their…

Buddhist writer Harvey Aronson shone a bright light on a hidden truth:




‘Most of us habitually think this way: “Jayne lost the book I lent her. She is irresponsible and awful.” It is a lot harder to acknowledge this feeling: “I fear I don’t matter in her…

No doubt like many other people around the world, we have been surprised and increasingly concerned that Noam Chomsky has not commented publicly on current events for around one year; in particular, on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.



The most recent…

In his very last article, 'We are Spartacus', published just a month before his death in December, John Pilger included a quote that exactly captured the truth of our time:




‘“This is a sharp time, now, a precise time …” wrote Arthur Miller in The Crucible…

Is it possible for an entire 'mainstream' media system - every newspaper, website, TV channel - to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following.



In February 2022, Nigel Farage…

The BBC’s banner headline reporting the UK’s 4 July general election result was clear:




‘Chris Mason: “Starmer tsunami” and civility after brutality’




This alliterated nicely but gave the misleading impression that there had been a massive display of…

Last November, we reported on an incisive and courageous email that had been sent on 24 October 2023 to Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General, by Rami Ruhayem, a Beirut-based BBC correspondent. Basing his arguments on considerable evidence and rational analysis…

Media Lens is a UK-based media watchdog. It is our response to the increasingly centralised, corporate, state-subservient nature of the mislabelled ‘mainstream’ media system (‘MSM’). We argue that the ‘MSM’, in fact, acts as a de facto propaganda system for…

On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were killed instantly and the rest were injured; a seventh later…

Julian Assange is to take part in this hearing, organised by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, beginning at 8.30 a.m. CEST on Tuesday 1 October.

The following day, on Wednesday 2 October,…

Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October:




'Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank'




This was noteworthy in that, for once, the BBC had made it clear that Israel was responsible…

In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that China offered a ‘warning example’ to the West. Yes, Mill sniffed, Chinese culture had benefited from ‘men to whom even the most enlightened European must accord, under certain limitations, the title…

In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are trying to avert. Sometimes, notably in the wee small hours, we have tried to imagine how a destabilised climate…

Imagine an experienced British surgeon, recently returned from Ukraine, breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately targeting Ukrainian…