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How the Pentagon is hiding the dead
How the Pentagon is hiding the dead The secret campaign to undercount the ‘war on terror’ death toll in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America In the name of ‘counting every casualty,’ the Pentagon is systematically undercounting deaths from the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on drugs,’ in the Middle East, Central […]
Effort by Japan to Stifle News Media Is Working
Effort by Japan to Stifle News Media Is Working It was an unexpected act of protest that shook Japan’s carefully managed media world: Shigeaki Koga, a regular television commentator and fierce critic of the political establishment, abruptly departed from the scripted conversation during a live TV news program to announce that this would be his last […]
The Limits of Propaganda
The Limits of Propaganda As Paul Craig Roberts has recently reported, the US government is in the process of launching an all-out war on truth. Those who express views contrary to the party line out of Washington will be labeled a threat. Eventually they may find themselves carted to one of the concentration camps which Halliberton […]
Joe Oliver’s Budget Numbers Are Thoroughly Cooked
Joe Oliver’s Budget Numbers Are Thoroughly Cooked That, or he’s been drinking his own Kool-Aid. No wonder they’re spending $7.5 million in public money to advertise Joe Oliver’s budget. Bernie Madoff couldn’t have come up with a sneakier sell than this. Still, no one should be surprised. This misbegotten government’s modus operandi is about much more than information […]
Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day
Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day If you haven’t already given your treehugger friends a big Earth Day hug today, please don’t forget! And I am of course more than happy to take all the Earth Day hugs I can get! Why the hugs? Well Earth Day is reason enough I think, but an even better […]
READING I.F. STONE ON EARTH DAY: WHY WE STILL WON’T GET ANYWHERE UNLESS WE CONNECT THE DOTS
READING I.F. STONE ON EARTH DAY: WHY WE STILL WON’T GET ANYWHERE UNLESS WE CONNECT THE DOTS One week ago, I was honoured to receive an “Izzy Award” for “outstanding achievement in independent media and journalism.” The annual award, which this year also went to David Sirota for his groundbreaking investigations into political corruption in the U.S. […]
Hopium: How Far Can Irrational Optimism Take The U.S. Economy?
Hopium: How Far Can Irrational Optimism Take The U.S. Economy? If enough people truly believe that things will get better, will that actually cause them to get better? There is certainly something to be said for being positive and thinking that anything is possible. And as Americans, optimism seems to come naturally for us. However, […]
How Trustworthy Are U.S. & Western ‘News’ Media?
How Trustworthy Are U.S. & Western ‘News’ Media? During the days of the Soviet Union, and in all dictatorial countries, the ‘news’ media were and are actually propaganda-media, which filter out information that the aristocracy (the people holding the real power, which in the Soviet Union were the Communist Party bosses) don’t want the public […]
The Latest Media Attempts To Suppress Oil Prices
The Latest Media Attempts To Suppress Oil Prices It started with the Iranian supply overhang and has grown louder by the day in the media. While we were all supposed to be cowering in fear at the 1MB/D that would be coming from Iran any day, it emerged instead that not only is the deal […]
‘Bloggers’ Compared to ISIS During Congressional Hearing
‘Bloggers’ Compared to ISIS During Congressional Hearing People who challenge establishment narratives online likened with terrorist organization Bloggers, conspiracy theorists and people who challenge establishment narratives on the Internet were all likened to ISIS terrorists during a chilling Congressional hearing which took place yesterday. The hearing, hosted by the House Foreign Relations Committee, was titled […]
NBC’S CONDUCT IN ENGEL KIDNAPPING STORY IS MORE TROUBLING THAN THE BRIAN WILLIAMS SCANDAL
NBC’S CONDUCT IN ENGEL KIDNAPPING STORY IS MORE TROUBLING THAN THE BRIAN WILLIAMS SCANDAL Throughout 2012, numerous American factions were pushing for U.S. intervention in Syria to bring down the regime of Bashar Assad, who throughout the War on Terror had helped the U.S. in all sorts of ways, including torturing people for them. But by then, Assad was viewed mostly […]
How Reliable Is Reuters?
How Reliable Is Reuters? People see their own nation, and foreign nations, through the filter of the press that’s available to them; so, if that filter is systematically distorting (distorting in ways that most of the others similarly do), then democracy cannot function, public opinion can be manipulated and warped; and wars might even start […]
Huge Trouble Is Percolating Just Under The Surface Of The Global Economy
Huge Trouble Is Percolating Just Under The Surface Of The Global Economy Did you know that the number of publicly traded companies declaring bankruptcy has reached a five year high? And did you know that Chinese exports are absolutely collapsing and that Chinese economic growth in 2014 was the weakest in over 20 years? Even […]
The politicians and the manipulated crowd
The politicians and the manipulated crowd Life and happiness in this life under any political system directly depend upon how much our individuality (versus the crowd) is retained and to what extent we throw off manipulated illusions. The more we are immersed into the mass mind (the crowd), the more we are manipulated and the […]
The Power of Lies
The Power of Lies It is one of history’s ironies that the Lincoln Memorial is a sacred space for the Civil Rights Movement and the site of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Lincoln did not think blacks were the equals of whites. Lincoln’s plan was to send the blacks in America back […]
