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Το κίνημα Slow News: η απάντηση στα Fake News?

globinfo freexchange Στον θαυμαστό καινούργιο κόσμο, ο αβάσταχτος όγκος πληροφοριών που καταναλώνουμε καθημερινά έχει γεννήσει ένα δυστοπικό παράδοξο: την ίδια στιγμή, αμφισβητούμε και πιστεύουμε τα πάντα. Το μυαλό μας έχει βυθιστεί σε μια δίνη από tweets, αναρτήσεις, βίντεο, hoaxes και fake news. Τα τελευταία χρόνια, σε διάφορα μέρη του πλανήτη, νησίδες αντίστασης έρχονται στην επιφάνεια. Ολιγομελείς ομάδες ανεξάρτητων δημοσιογράφων αγωνίζονται να οικοδομήσουν ένα εναλλακτικό μοντέλο πληροφόρησης, το οποίο βασίζεται σε μια εξαιρετικά απλή αρχή: πρέπει να κόψουμε ταχύτητα. Ένα μαχητικό ντοκιμαντέρ που έχει βαλθεί να αποδείξει ότι η δημοσιογραφία παραμένει ο βασικός πυλώνας της δημοκρατίας. https://www.filmfestival.gr/el/section-tdf/movie/1047/13001 Το ενδιαφέρον αυτό ντοκιμαντέρ του Alberto Puliafito, ερευνά ένα νέο είδος δημοσιογραφίας που γεννήθηκε από την ανάγκη για δημοσιογραφική αυθεντικότητα μέσα στο σημερινό, χαοτικό μιντιακό τοπίο. Σε ένα σύστημα που χαρακ

The Slow News movement: an answer to Fake News?

globinfo freexchange In this brave new world we’re living in, the unbearable overload of information we are daily fed has given birth to a dystopian paradox: we believe everything and we believe nothing at the same time, as our mind is drowned in a whirlpool of tweets, posts, videos, hoaxes, and fake news. Over the last years, in different parts of the world, islets of resistance have come to surface. Small crews of independent journalists are striving to build an alternative model based on a crystal-clear principle: we need to slow down. A militant documentary that hails journalism as the key pillar of democracy. https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/section-tdf/movie/1047/13001 This interesting, new documentary by Alberto Puliafito, explores a new type of journalism that was born through the need for journalistic authenticity in a chaotic media landscape. In a system characterized by a continuous, ruthless competition in every aspect of life, journalism fatefully

Former Pentagon official: US wants ISIS in Iraq to justify occupation

RT America Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof says ISIS is making a comeback in Iraq because of an array of variables that have created ideal conditions for the terrorist group.

US sanctions on Iran fueled by hate and money

The Real News Network John Bolton brought Richard Goldberg from the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies to serve as a senior advisor for the National Security Council, ensuring that sanctions against Iran will intensify even as Iran is wracked by COVID-19.

FBI reveals Saudi sponsored attack on US soil, Trump and media ignore

The Hill FBI's recent discovery of a link between al Qaeda and a Saudi military trainee who killed three U.S. sailors in a terror attack last year on a military base in Pensacola, Florida.   

Why the Merkel-Macron 'Eurobond' announcement isn't what it seems

DiEM25 Yanis Varoufakis with a message from DiEM25 on the Merkel-Macron 'Eurobond' announcement. 

UK gov caught running secret “Venezuela Restructuring Unit”

The Grayzone Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with journalist John McEvoy about his recent bombshell report published in The Canary , which reveals the existence of a previously unknown “Venezuela Restructuring Unit”. 

New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange

An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign. by Max Blumenthal “ I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. ” –Mike Pompeo, College Station, TX, April 15, 2019 Part 2 - Pompeo outlines the attack on Assange Pompeo’s first public speech as CIA Director, hosted at the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank on April 13, 2017, was one of the most paranoid and resentful addresses ever delivered by an agency chief. The former Republican congressman from Kansas opened his speech with an extended tirade against the “Philip Agees in the world,” referring to the CIA whistleblower who handed over thousands of classified documents to leftist publishers that revealed shocking details of illegal US regime c

How big wireless lobbied governments to build 5G for citizen data collection and surveillance

While selling 5G technology to the public as a means for faster downloads, Big Wireless — comprising a web of telecom companies, lobbyists and law firms– is spending millions to lobby governments the world over to implement the next generation of cellular technology because of its potential for data collection and surveillance of citizens. by Derrick Broze  Part 3 - Who’s Behind the Race to 5G?  For the last year, Americans have been peppered with messages from telecommunications companies and the tech industry at large, stressing the importance of being first in the Race to 5G. We are told if we want driverless vehicles, robot assistants, cleaner and safer cities, and more convenient lives we must support and pay for the upgrades to 5G. Apparently, the public should also ignore the fact that this upgrade has sparked lawsuits over health, privacy, and local power concerns. But beyond being a lackluster marketing campaign to convince the public to adopt the next generation

Trump unveils plan that would see Big Pharma reap massive profits from COVID-19 vaccine

President Trump has revealed a plan to mobilize the US military to deliver mass vaccinations across the country, coupled with Operation Warp Speed, a “Manhattan project-style” race to produce a COVID-19 vaccine. by Raul Diego Part 2 - A tug of war for the SNS The Trump administration’s ostensibly independent program to develop and deploy a vaccine against COVID-19 had been in the hands of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner and Trump advisor, Peter Navarro, though Bloomberg reported in April that HHS Secretary Alex Azar had been tasked by Trump to speed up the development of a vaccine and had been meeting for at least a month prior with White House officials.  The rollout is occurring as Congressional attention focuses on irregularities surrounding the supply of ventilators in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), a thousand of which were shipped to South Africa just the other day. In addition, yesterday’s so-called “whistleblower” testimony by ousted Biomedical Advan