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How Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission
How Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission “Gaslighting” can be an effective tactic to instill confusion and anxiety in people, causing them to doubt their own logical abilities, but it can be countered by remaining confident in our judgments, argues Caitlin Johnstone. Poster for the 1944 movie “Gaslight” The dynamics of the establishment Syria narrative […]
U.S. Intelligence Crisis Poses a Threat to the World
U.S. Intelligence Crisis Poses a Threat to the World Privatized and politicized intelligence is undermining the mission of providing unbiased information to both high-level decision makers and the American public, explains George Eliason in this first of a three-part series. Back in 1991, during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the general consensus of the […]
Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One
Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One Perpetual war is leading to a host of societal ills, yet debates on war and peace are almost entirely absent from public discourse, Robert Wing and Coleen Rowley observe. U.S. Marines patrol street in Shah Karez in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff […]
‘Duck and Cover’ Drills Exacerbate Fears of N. Korea War
‘Duck and Cover’ Drills Exacerbate Fears of N. Korea War A recent false alarm in Hawaii had citizens in a state of panic over an impending nuclear attack, which, as Ann Wright speculates, may have been the point. A “duck and cover” school drill from the 1950s. Are you ready for nuclear attack warning sirens […]
Responding to Bernie’s Promotion of the New Cold War
Responding to Bernie’s Promotion of the New Cold War In this op-ed, Caitlin Johnstone responds to Bernie Sanders’ promotion of unproven allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. In an otherwise fine video response to Tuesday night’s vapid, flag-waving State of the Union address, Bernie Sanders once again promoted the neocon think tank-generated and unproven claim that Russia […]
Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole
Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole The NSA’s recent destruction of evidence in contravention of a court order follows a long-established pattern of intelligence abuses, as Ted Snider explains. Seal of the National Security Agency Though it received disturbingly little attention – perhaps a symptom of desensitization to news that we are constantly being surveilled […]
Will Congress Face Down the Deep State?
Will Congress Face Down the Deep State? The House Intelligence Committee’s vote on Monday to release a memorandum describing alleged malfeasance at the DOJ and the FBI could test constitutional principles, writes Ray McGovern. With the House Intelligence Committee vote yesterday to release its four-page memorandum reportedly based on documentary evidence of possible crimes by […]
Mainstream Media and Imperial Power
Mainstream Media and Imperial Power Noted journalist and filmmaker John Pilger’s collection of work has been archived by the British Library, but deep-rooted problems of Western media create an increasingly difficult landscape for ethical journalism, as Pilger explained in an interview with Dennis Bernstein and Randy Credico. Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the […]
A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos
A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos In the new U.S. National Defense Strategy, military planners bemoan the erosion of the U.S.’s “competitive edge,” but the reality is that they are strategizing to maintain the American Empire in a chaotic world, explains Nicolas J.S. Davies. Presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United […]
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House Recent revelations of “inadvertent” deletions of electronic data at the FBI and NSA relating to alleged felonies are being described as a “foul-up,” but the intelligence agencies’ track record suggests a possibly more nefarious explanation, explains Ray McGovern in this op-ed. We learned in recent days that the FBI […]
A Coming Russia-Ukraine War?
A Coming Russia-Ukraine War? A new draft law adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament and awaiting Petro Poroshenko’s signature threatens to escalate the Ukrainian conflict into a full-blown war, pitting nuclear-armed Russia against the United States and NATO, reports Gilbert Doctorow. While much of America’s – and the world’s – attention focused this weekend reflecting on […]
Regime Change and Globalization Fuel Europe’s Refugee and Migrant Crisis
Regime Change and Globalization Fuel Europe’s Refugee and Migrant Crisis Right-wing populists are exploiting the migration issue in both the United States and Europe, but dismissing their arguments would be a mistake. Instead, an honest assessment of the economic and regime-change policies that fuel migration is needed, reports Andrew Spannaus. Anti-establishment political forces in the […]
Pesticide Use Threatens Health in California
Pesticide Use Threatens Health in California President Trump boasts about all the regulations that he has eliminated but he never mentions the important good that many of these rules were doing, as Dennis J Bernstein explains. The battle to protect farmworkers and their families from dangerous pesticides has been going on for decades. But it […]
Giving War Too Many Chances
Giving War Too Many Chances As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Christmas Eve in 1969. I joined them and a small group of local […]
Trump’s Continuation of US Interventionism
Trump’s Continuation of US Interventionism Criticizing his predecessors for misguided foreign wars, President Trump promised a break in that approach, but his National Security Strategy report indicates a shift more in rhetoric than substance, reports Dennis J. Bernstein. President Trump’s recent report on National Security Strategy supposedly reflected his America First “realism” but his approach […]
