Harvard’s Fake Guide To Fake News Sites

By Stephen Lendman

Is this what parents pay $63,000 annually for tuition, room, board and fees – so their children can be ill-served and ill-taught?

Following the 2014 Obama administration Kiev coup, replacing democracy with fascist dictatorship, Harvard expressed concern about nonexistent “Russian aggression.” Some faculty members called for US military intervention.

Not a word about US-supported putschists seizing power. Nothing about the most brazen European coup since Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome.

No explanation about a scheme orchestrated in Washington. Silence about a major crisis in Europe’s heartland still ongoing. Trump inherited Obama’s mess, so far not indicating clearly where he stands on Ukraine.

Harvard is at it again. It’s University Library published a fake guide to “fake news, misinformation, and propaganda.”

It recommends using FactCheck.org, Politifact, Snopes.com, Washington Post Fact Checker, and other self-styled fact-checkers, biased against truth-telling on all major issues, acting as censors, trashing reliable alternative sources of news, information and analysis.

It endorses sanitized content acceptable to America’s deep state, abandoning support for speech, media and academic freedoms.

It recommended “tips for analyzing news sources.” Ignore them. Common sense is the best guide, along with distrusting and avoiding media scoundrels. They’re paid to lie, deceive and feature fake news – what powerful interests want people to know, what’s most important suppressed.

Harvard published a list of hundreds of sites it calls “bias(ed),” “conspira(torial),” “unreliable,” “fake,” and otherwise mislabeled.

Some I’m familiar with are reliable sources, (polar opposite media scoundrels paid to lie), including:

• 21st Century Wire
• Activist Post
• Antiwar.com
• Before Its News.com
• Black Agenda Report
• Boiling Frogs Post
• Common Dreams
• Consortium News
• Corbett Report
• Countercurrents
• CounterPunch
• David Stockman Contracorner
• Fort Russ
• Freedoms Phoenix
• Global Research
• The Greanville Post
• Information Clearing House
• Intellihub
• Intrepid Report
• Lew Rockwell
• Market Oracle
• Mint Press News
• Moon of Alabama
• Naked Capitalism
• Natural News
• Nomi Prins
• Off-Guardian
• Paul Craig Roberts
• Pravda.ru
• Rense
• Rinf
• Ron Paul Institute
• Ruptly TV
• Russia-Insider
• Sgt Report
• ShadowStats
• Shift Frequency
• SJLendman.blogspot.com – my alma mater recommends avoiding my writing; new articles posted daily; featuring truth-telling on major issues
• Solari
• Sott.net
• South Front
• Sputnik News
• Strategic Culture.org
• The Anti-Media
• The Duran
• The Intercept
• The People’s Voice
• The Saker
• The Sleuth Journal
• Third World Traveler
• Voltairenet
• What Really Happened
• Who What Why
• WikiLeaks
• Zero Hedge

These and other sites Harvard’s Library urges avoiding are ones readers should rely on – avoiding The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and other fake news proliferators.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].

His new book as editor and contributor is titled Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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