{"id":314664,"date":"2026-04-06T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=314664"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:51:57","slug":"power-and-manipulation-media-as-a-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/04\/power-and-manipulation-media-as-a-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Power and Manipulation\u2014 Media as a Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>26 Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Is the West still a democracy \u2013 or already a declining empire? Joe Lauria analyzes the role of the United States in Ukraine, Gaza, and the global power struggle \u2013 and raises a crucial question: <em>Is freedom of speech in the West being systematically restricted to protect geopolitical narratives?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Media, power and manipulation \u2013 Joe Lauria on Ukraine, Russia and censorship\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bp4PXwvJMr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of <\/em>Consortium News<em> and a former correspondent for\u00a0<\/em>The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe<em> and numerous other newspapers<\/em>, <em>including<\/em> The Montreal Gazette<em> and <\/em>The Star<em> of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the <\/em>Sunday Times <em>of London, a financial reporter for <\/em>Bloomberg News<em> and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for <\/em>The New York Times<em>. Email:<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:joelauria@consortiumnews.com\"><em>joelauria@consortiumnews.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Feb 2026 &#8211; Is the West still a democracy or already a declining empire? The role of the US in Ukraine, Gaza, and the global power struggle. A crucial question: Is freedom of speech in the West being systematically restricted to protect geopolitical narratives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[2375,1785,2314,2881,1855,234,2462,2571,688,372,1365,172,2110],"class_list":["post-314664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-alternative-media","tag-censorship","tag-corporate-media","tag-journalistic-ethics","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-media","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-peace-journalism","tag-propaganda","tag-war-journalism","tag-west","tag-yellow-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314665,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314664\/revisions\/314665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}