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For Hollywood, ‘Vice’ Remarkably Astute about Politics
For Hollywood, ‘Vice’ Remarkably Astute about Politics Adam McKay’s movie may be flawed, but it’s still must-see for his depiction of how Cheney amassed power by exploiting Watergate, an inexperienced president and 9/11, writes James DiEugenio. In 2015, director Adam McKay did something unusual in Hollywood. He made a good film out of a good […]
VICE – The Dick Cheney/Rumsfeld Conspiracy
VICE – The Dick Cheney/Rumsfeld Conspiracy I went to go watch VICE – the story about how Dick Cheney took over the government with the aid of his wife – Lynne Cheney. Vice is a film that seeks to bring complicated information about the inner corruption in Washington and transform it into a digestible and entertaining format. There […]
How Wikipedia Lies
How Wikipedia Lies Did you know that Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that on 11 September 2001 he, as President George W. Bush’s brief stand-in during the 9/11 attacks that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, issued an order (and it was carried out) to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 while it […]
How ‘Operation Merlin’ Poisoned U.S. Intelligence on Iran
How ‘Operation Merlin’ Poisoned U.S. Intelligence on Iran The CIA’s “Operation Merlin,” which involved providing Iran with a flawed design for a nuclear weapon and resulted in an alleged whistleblower going to prison, was the perfect example of creating intelligence in order to justify operations, reports Gareth Porter. Jeffrey Sterling, the case officer for the CIA’s […]
Is Washington tacitly operating under a new monetary theory?
Is Washington tacitly operating under a new monetary theory? In 2002 when soon-to-be-dismissed U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill warned then Vice President Dick Cheney that the Bush administration’s tax cuts would drive up deficits and threaten the health of the economy, Cheney famously answered: “You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” In the wake […]
How the US Became a Warmonger Police State
How the US Became a Warmonger Police State Professor David Ray Griffin is a tenacious person. He has written a number of carefully researched books that demonstrate the extraordinary shortcomings in the official account of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the subsequent anthrax attack. He has provided the […]
Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE ‘LORDS OF SECRECY’
Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE ‘LORDS OF SECRECY’ Powerful, unaccountable, and operating far in the shadows, the Lords of Secrecy, as author Scott Horton calls them, are real, and they are in charge of our national security state. Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book, Lords of Secrecy: The National […]
NYT Editorial Board Demands Criminal Prosecution Of Dick Cheney For CIA Torture Program
NYT Editorial Board Demands Criminal Prosecution Of Dick Cheney For CIA Torture Program. The New York Times editorial board has called on President Barack Obama and the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation into the CIA’s use of torture, in a scathing editorial published Sunday. The board demanded that the investigation look into involvement of former […]
