During a Chicago speech to the nation’s police chiefs, President Trump raised the false accusations made by actor Jussie Smollett. Smollett, who is black, falsely claimed that white Trump supporters wearing “Make America Great Again” hats attacked him in the middle of the night and hung a noose around his neck. Police later determined that […]
Special Investigations
What are the year’s most censored stories?
I am pleased to have written the forward to the latest edition of Project Censored’s most censored news stories: Through the Looking Glass. Description below: The establishment media can make us sick of news even as we’re starving for it. If we aren’t careful, we’ll end up like Alice, swimming in a sea of our […]
5 years later, media and politicians should retire the “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” false narrative
The following is an excerpt from my latest news analysis in The Hill. ‘Hands up, don’t shoot” never happened. Somebody tell the Democrats running for president. Even amid the heated political rhetoric that dominates the news media and social media, resurrected false claims about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., stand out as […]
How do you view social media? Unscientific poll
(Updated: the original post left off the response: B and C) The vast majority of you describe social media as something less than positive and genuine. That’s according to the newest SharylAttkisson.com unscientific poll. Eighty-one percent (81%) describe social media as “divisive,” “propaganda,” or both. Nobody (0%) who answered our survey said they view social […]
Overstock.com CEO reportedly admits being FBI informant in figure related to Trump-Russia scandal
When you thought things couldn’t get stranger, journalist Sara Carter has a new interview with the Chief Executive of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne. It reveals new tangles in the Russia collusion web. In the interview, Byrne acknowledges providing the government “exculpatory” material in support of Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina. Butina is in prison after […]
Democrat presidential candidate Gabbard sues Google, alleges election meddling
There’s more reason to question whether the big tech companies are putting their thumb on the scale or even meddling when it comes to U.S. elections. New allegations and a federal lawsuit come from the presidential campaign of Democrat Tulsi Gabbard. According to Gabbard, in the immediate hours after the first Democratic Presidential debate on […]
The Weaponization of Wikipedia
The egregious vandalism and misuse of my biography page by Wikipedia agenda editors continues. I understand that cases like this matter little except to those who are libeled. However, I would argue that they are important to the extent they represent what’s going on across the increasingly-troubled Wikipedia platform. Wikipedia has been “weaponized.” Anonymous political […]
Hacked Off: Ransomware attacks impact us more than heavily-covered “Russiagate”
The following is an opinion and news analysis by Rich Weinstein On May 21st, the City of Philadelphia shut down its computer system as a precaution after a virus was found. Although this virus has not been officially tied to the ransomeware attacks on other court systems (Baltimore, Allentown, San Antonio), the effect is the […]
