The mainstream media spread conspiracy theories. Russia rigged the elections. Iraqi soldiers went to the maternity ward and threw babies on the floor in Kuwait. Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. Assad is using gas. It’s churnalism, not journalism.

They leave things out. Under a veneer of ‘objectivity’ the media peddle the opinions of the privileged. They will tell you someone like Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of anti-semitism without telling you how baseless those claims are. They will not defend Julian Assange. They will en passant mention there is a war in Yemen, but will not point to people like Biden or Obama as some of the culprits. They will not tell you the west gave Saddam all the gas he wanted as long as he was using it against the Iranians. When an American drone is shot flying over Iran they will not tell you that that fucking drone shouldn’t have been there. When talking about Iran they will certainly not tell you the US and the UK are directly responsible for the power of the religious nuts in Iran because they staged a coup against the democratically elected Mossadegh in the 1950’s and then saddled the Iranians with their puppet the Shah. One thing Trump got right is… If you read the mainstream media you are misinformed.

In German they sometimes call the mainstream media ‘Lügenpresse’. The media of lies. Better is to call it the ‘Lückenpresse’. The media full of holes.

This song should be on every radio station at least once a day instead of the usual ‘hits’ we have all heard way too many times. Have you ever noticed that radio music is never militant? Never truly angry (unless it’s someone singing about a crazy ex). It’s like radio music is always carefully selected for being the background music to being happy workers and enthusiastic shoppers.

Gimme some truth, by John Lennon

I’m sick and tired of hearing things,
From uptight, short sighted, narrow minded hypocrites,
All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,
I’ve had enough of reading things,
By neurotic, psychotic, pig headed politicians,
All I want is the truth,
Just give us the truth,No short haired, yellow bellied, son of tricky Dicky is
Gonna mother hubbard, soft soap me with just a pocket full of oil,
Money for oil,
Money for oil.I’m sick to death of seeing things,
By tight lipped, condescending, mommy’s little chauvinists,
All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,
I’ve had enough of watching scenes,
Of schizophrenic, egocentric, paranoia prima donnas,
All I want is the truth,
Just give us the truth,No short haired, yellow bellied, son of tricky Dicky is
Gonna mother hubbard soft soap me with just a pocket full of oil,
Money for oil,
Money for oil,No short haired, yellow bellied, son of George-Porgy is
Gonna mother hubbard soft soap me with just a pocket full of oil,
It’s money for oil,
No blood for oil,I’m sick to death of hearing things,
From uptight, short sighted, narrow minded hypocrites,
All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,
I’ve had enough of reading things,
By neurotic psychotic, homophobic hypocrites,
All I want is the truth,
Just give us the truth,
All we want is the truth,
Just give us the truth,
We can handle the truth,
Just give us some truth,
Share with us the truth,
We’ll give you our truth