The Five Eyes countries: the American Republic, and the four main British Kingdoms: the Australian Kingdom, the New Zealander Kingdom, the Canadian Kingdom, and the United Kingdom. Pearls and Irritations , a left-of-center Australian political blog, just published an article about the power wielded by state corporate news media in today's world, especially in the light of the current Gaza War. What is written there is all fine, true, and well, but it carries no enough weight in front of the onslaught of press coverage carrying the same lines every hour, every day, every week. And the same holds true with the current Ukrainian War. The Five Eyes don't just share information. They share ideas, reflexes, habits of thought, slogans, inclinations, biases, sentiments, opinions, mindsets, etc., all carried through the same medium: the English language. As everybody knows, that language has almost become the lingua franca of the whole planet, used on innumerable radio stations, TV st