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Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17
Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17 Exclusive: Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and the U.S. government has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management. A case in point is the media manipulation around last year’s Malaysia Airlines shoot-down over Ukraine, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. During a recent interview, I was asked to express my conclusions […]
War Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO
War Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between the then Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants. Sarkozy, […]
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy In the event you were becoming concerned that the U.S. government might be backing away from its longstanding policy of endless violence, militarism and bloodshed, fear not. If we know one thing for sure, it’s that defense contractors and […]
Gullible Americans Forever
Gullible Americans Forever “Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is […]
Bob Woodward Compares Clinton Emails To Nixon Tapes, Warns “Answers Won’t Be Pretty”
Bob Woodward Compares Clinton Emails To Nixon Tapes, Warns “Answers Won’t Be Pretty” “Follow the trail here,” veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward told MSNBC, as he compared Hillary Clinton’s private email account to the Nixon tapes. As The Hill reports, Woodward concluded that the fight over Clinton’s emails wouldn’t end soon: “This has to go on a long, […]
How & Why U.S. Media Do Propaganda Against Russia
How & Why U.S. Media Do Propaganda Against Russia The owners of U.S. newsmedia know that in order to serve their fellow U.S. aristocrats who want to kick out Russia’s current leader, Vladimir Putin, so as to enable them to buy Russia’s natural resources (and highly educated work-forces) cheap via “privatizations,” their PR campaign for […]
Where the TPP Could Lose
Where the TPP Could Lose After years of secret negotiations and silence in the media, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has risen to headline news. Now that Congress has voted to give President Obama “fast-track” trade promotion authority to push the deal through the House and Senate with limited debate and no amendments, efforts to finalize the agreement […]
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar “We are imperial, and we are in decline… People are losing confidence in the Empire.” This is the key theme of Larry Wilkerson’s presentation. He never really questions whether empire is good or bad, sustainable or not, and at what costs. At […]
Neocons Falsify Iraq War ‘Lessons’
Neocons Falsify Iraq War ‘Lessons’ Having escaped accountability for the Iraq War disaster, U.S. neocons are urging the use of more military force in the Mideast, in line with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand to block the Iran nuclear deal. From their important perches of power, these war hawks also twist the history of their […]
US-NATO Military Deployments, Economic Warfare, Goldman Sachs and the Next Financial Meltdown
US-NATO Military Deployments, Economic Warfare, Goldman Sachs and the Next Financial Meltdown Is There a Relationship? What is the relationship between war in a military theater and “economic warfare”? An act of war is invariably an economic undertaking which supports dominant corporate interests. The conduct of US-NATO military operations is carried out on behalf of powerful financial […]
The Shot Not Heard Around the World
The Shot Not Heard Around the World China’s recent move to devalue the yuan has sent shock waves through the global financial markets and has convinced most observers that a new front in the global currency wars has begun. The move has caused many observes to envision a new round of competitive devaluations around the globe […]
US Military Uses IMF and World Bank to Launder 85% of Its Black Budget
US Military Uses IMF and World Bank to Launder 85% of Its Black Budget Though transparency was a cause he championed when campaigning for the presidency, President Obama has largely avoided making certain defense costs known to the public. However, when it comes to military appropriations for government spy agencies, we know from Freedom of […]
10 Disturbing Facts Most Americans Are Too Fearful To Face
10 Disturbing Facts Most Americans Are Too Fearful To Face Sometimes you have to put out information in hopes that those who haven’t heard this will at least absorb a fraction of it. If you haven’t heard this and you absorb just one of these random points, I believe that may be enough to cause […]
Why is it So Hard for the West to See Everything is Connected?
Why is it So Hard for the West to See Everything is Connected? QUESTION: Marty, you have written many times how everything is connected and how in Asian culture that is the foundation of all understanding. Why is it so hard in the West to comprehend this fundamental concept? All the best GD ANSWER: I think it […]
