Mainstream "news" has become a conduit for cabal misinformation. Fox News, of course, is nothing more than right-wing extremist lies. But now the major television and radio networks, and mainstream Internet sites have all become purveyors of capitalist lies and disinformation.

Such cabal puppets as CNN's Anderson Cooper don't even pretend to objectivity in their reporting. In this video, Cooper calls Syria's duly elected leader a dictator and reports cabal misinformation about the CIA-backed Syrian fake revolutionaries as unquestionable truth. Instead of indicating that there are reports of US funding of Syrian rebels, Cooper leads the viewer to assume that his lies are the truth. There is good evidence that the cabal has been providing money and materiel to CIA-trained Syrian fake rebels since at least 2005. Stooges such as Anderson never mention the criminality of cabal invasions and regime-changes worldwide.

      The seizure of the mainstream press by cabal fellow-travelers has most recently been highlighted by the exposure of the extreme influence of the Murdoch empire over British and American "news" sources and political figures.

     Before the cabal assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the black-flag operation of 9/11--and the resultant international capitalist cabal's attacks on constitutional freedoms following those disasters--American citizens had the option of whether or not to inform themselves. But the cabal's attacks on our civil liberties now constitutes such an ongoing CRISIS that Americans must either inform themselves or continue to suffer from the cabal's attacks on basic Constitutional freedoms.

     If you're going to become an informed citizen, you're going to have to inform yourself through the intelligent search for and use of alternate news sources on the Internet! The so-called TV "news" shows don't even pretend to provide a balanced presentation of varying points of view. A Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) study of ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News in the year 2001 revealed that 92 percent of all U.S. sources interviewed were white, 85 percent were male and, where party affiliation was identifiable, 75 percent were Republican.

     FAIR's exposé of the Bill O'Reilly program reveals the ugly visage of bigotry and egomania. So-called TV news programs only provides DIS-information and inane entertainment which it calls "news."

     In a January 9, 2010 article entitled "Hard Lessons from Decades Past," Robert Parry made it clear just how "news" has degenerated into brainwashing.

"Newsweek was in the vanguard of what would become a trend of the American news media, to ignore or 'debunk' investigations of major national security crimes rather than seriously investigate them.

"By the early 1990s, the historic role of the American press as watchdogs for the public had been transformed. Instead of growling at the corrupt and powerful, the press corps had become guard dogs, protecting the new Republican establishment and snarling at citizens, whistleblowers and even fellow journalists who sought to expose wrongdoing.

"But many Americans--including some who should have known better--still thought the Watergate/Pentagon Papers press corps was alive and well. After all, the new reality was obscured by a steady flow of right-wing propaganda promoting the false (or at least obsolete) notion that the national press corps had a 'liberal bias.'"

"If information is the oxygen of democracy, the United States has just been gassed, not by weapons of mass destruction but by a weapon of mass distraction . . . "The transformation of active citizens into passive consumers was enabled by the Federal Communications Commission under Ronald Reagan's Mark Fowler, who declared 'the perception of broadcasters as community trustees should be replaced by a view of broadcasters as marketplace participants.' "TV's Fox could not get away with its shameless shilling for the White House if the Fairness Doctrine were still in place, and radio's Clear Channel monopoly would not be able to impose wall-to-wall Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage, etc., on the public if broadcasters were accountable to public opinion rather than the dictates of plutocrats. "Totalitarian regimes don't tolerate any distinction between journalism and propaganda, but in most democracies it is unprecedented for the free press to abandon Joseph Pulitzer for the methods of Joseph Goebbels. "This undemocratic confluence of politics and propaganda has long been in the making as corporate media have been incrementally empowered while public influence, input and 'interest' have been eliminated." Ian Masters, host of "Background Briefing" on KPFK-FM (90.7) in Los Angeles, in a 2004 commentary in the Los Angeles Times

     So how do you go about getting news and analysis for yourself?

      Easy--you get your news and analysis from alternative Internet news programs!