Iraq War Crimes Should Neo-Conservatives Just Shut Up?
One of the regrets I expressed, in my take on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, is that I didn’t write in opposition to the many bad arguments for
U.S. Anti-Missile Reshuffle Aimed at Control over Arctic Resources, Claims Former MI5 Officer
“ ... North Korea is a patsy, used to put up this new missile defense in Alaska. And the key part is that there’s been this covert war to control the d
Media Greenwashing Is Environmental News Losing Ground?
Is shutting down its Green blog a reflection of the New York Times’ priorities or a signal of larger media priorities when it comes to green coverage? M
Elliott Abrams, GW Bush Administration Junkyard Dog, vs. Reality
" ... As a staff member of President George W. Bush’s National Security Council, Abrams enjoyed advance knowledge of, and 'gave a nod to,' the (briefly
Argo Apostasy History As Myth and The Need To Occupy The Media
March 1, 2013 A friend sends me a PressTV posting by Dr. Kevin Barrett. As is usually the case at that site, it's a well-written, well-thought-out piece by
Post-Modernist Red-Baiting Sean Wilentz’s Pop-Gun Attack on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
February 15-17, 2013 It was only a matter of time before the N.Y. Review of Books launched an ideological drone strike against Oliver Stone and Peter Kuz
The CIA’s Image in Films has Never been Shinier
Related: "A Timeline of CIA Atrocities" " ... A new stereotype has emerged: The CIA is neither an idiot nor a sinister killer, and its agents are no longer
Hot Air Art Pope Still Funding Climate Disinformation
By Sue Sturgis Facing South, February 6, 2013 As North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's budget director, Art Pope will help make important fiscal decisions for
Spies and the Media
"... There is a similar operation in the U.S. I think it was called Operation Mockingbird. But in the U.K. particularly, within MI6, which is the external
Pentagon “Cyber-Warriors” Planting “False Information on Facebook”
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich Global Research, January 26, 2013 On November 22, 2012, the Los Angeles Times published an alarming piece of news entitled “C
CIA Plays Active Role in Managing its Image in Hollywood Films
The CIA gets a warm portrayal in the new film, Zero Dark Thirty. (Photo courtesy of Zero Dark Thirty.) PRI's The World, January 14, 2013 Up until the 1990
The Hitler Gun Control Lie
Gun rights activists who cite the dictator as a reason against gun control have their history dangerously wrong By Alex Seitz-Wald Salon, January 11, 2013
Ford Motor Co. Attempts to Erase Nazi Stain Left by its Founder
Henry Ford's "The International Jew" sold 11 million copies in Nazi Germany. His anti-Semitic tract was a best-seller ... and the Ford Motoc Co. is still
Seldom a Discouraging Word Bush-Era Neocons, the PR Exec who Invented “Embedded” Journalism & the Birth of the Fawning Petraeus Press Corps
By Alex Constantine Excerpt from "Terror on the Right" "War does not determine who is right -- only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell IN THE BEGINNING of
Bill O’Reilly Kills JFK, Again
" ... This book is so bad – in content and style – that it deserves a close reading, primarily because it is the type of salacious and deceptive propag
Ultra-Conservative Propagandist James R. Whelan, Founding Editor of the Washington Times, Dies at 79
When James Whelan left Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times in 1984, he regretted his role in the growth of the ultra-con propaganda sheet, confessing: "I ha
Special Operations Command Leads Propaganda Fight
December 6. 2012 Story Highlights Spending on propaganda websites has more than doubled since 2009 Controversial longtime military PR guru is a key
How Washington Post Strips Casualties from Covert Drone Data
By Chris Woods
The Bureau of Investigative Reporting, November 1, 2012
The Washington Post: is it telling the whole story?
Alongside the Washington Post
Pentagon Overseas Propaganda Plan Stirs Controversy (Re The Rendon Group)
Key facts excerpted from "Pentagon Overseas Propaganda Plan Stirs Controversy," by Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, November 20, 2012: * Senior officers a
Benghazi is a GOP Smear Campaign too Ugly for Words
By David Kolb The Muskegon Chronicle, November 26, 2012 If your intelligence isn’t insulted by the phony posturing of Republicans over the Benghazi trage