"I am not even sure if these articles are waking up the sheeplike masses to reality or just perpetuating further divide."

I agree with this. I think the answer is greater unity but devision sells better so those articles often cloak themselves in the language of progress but they are just as divisive as some racist ranting about how [insert group] runs the [country, culture, media, or whatever] and oppress [the ranters own group].

It is all meant to detract from the real struggle, I think. No matter where you go in this world, the wealthy and the powerful eat the poor and the weak. However, we outnumber those who seek to exploit us. They know that even a lose unity among the common people means the end of their way of life so they use their influence to keep us divided. The same types of rich fucks own the "progressive" media, and the "liberal" media and "the conservative" media and the batshit crazy media and they share the same goal in the end.