So Let’s Call Them the Whiteskins
" ... What is to debate here? When "skin" is used in a nickname, it can't be anything but a slur. Would Whiteskins, Blackskins or Yellowskins be acceptable
Students Walk Out of Charles Murray Talk
AC Note: This article overlooks the fact that the American Enterprise Institute, the sponsor of Charles Murray's talk at Duke University, is an industria
Walk out on Charles Murray
" ... Charles Murray is perhaps best known for the 1994 book he co-authored, The Bell Curve. A columnist at the New York Times called it 'a scabrous piec
The Syria Debate Military-Industrial Conflicts of Interest
Photo: Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor to George W. Bush, Raytheon director and media opinion-shaper "... The media debate surrounding t
Black Hawk Down The Real Story
A U.S. Marine helicopter (a Huey, not a Black Hawk) over Mogadishu in 1992. Photo credit: Wiki Commons. Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the
Cooking the Books The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the China Lobby and Cold War Propaganda, 1950-1962
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 37, No. 1, September 14, 2013 As influential contributors to national policy, intelligence professionals inevitabl
The Selling of The Pentagon 2013
By Joe Trento, Becky Gaskill and Carrie Waltemeyer “This will sound as if I am speaking large, but Mussolini said that the definition of fascism was when
Fox & Friends Racializes OK Shooting with Lie that Alleged Perps are all Black
August 21, 2013 Trayvon Martin's death has brought attention to racial inequities on a national scale. Rather than confront the reality of being b
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had Right-Wing Extremist Literature
One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Pano
U.S. News Media Help Koch Brothers & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation, UCS Investigation Finds
Top News Outlets Failed to Cite Think Tank Funding in Two-Thirds of Climate and Energy Stories in 2011 and 2012 WASHINGTON (May 13, 2013)—The U.S. news m
Secrets of the Conservative Media Machine
Article highlights: To borrow a Sarah Palin aphorism, after their election defeat in 2008, conservatives didn’t retreat, they “reloaded.” Instead of
Radio Talk Show Host ‘Homo Fascists’ will Soon Force Christians to Wear Symbols, as the Nazis did to Jews
“Remember when the Jews in Nazi Germany, they had to wear a yellow Star of David on their sleeve? I mean, we’re getting to the point now where that’s
The Propaganda System that has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass is Over a Century in the Making
Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy. April 17, 2013 Where t
From Margaret Thatcher to the Nazis Let’s Not Go Down Memorial Lane
Photo: Cult of memory … the state funeral of Baroness Thatcher in London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA So the Iron Lady had a hero's sendoff. But twis
New Report Exposes Bradley Foundation Funding Behind “Massive” School Privatization Campaign
Also see: "Thought promoters: Funders of major conservative think tanks" In a new report, entitled “P is for Payoff: Inside the Bradley Foundation’s Ca
The Dizziest Military-Industrial Propagandist in the National Media
By Alex Constantine Ray Robison is promoted as a "National Security Analyst" by the establishment media. His "informed analyses" of intelligence and mil
The Clean-Up BP Accused of Rewriting Environmental Record on Wikipedia
"... BP is not directly editing its page, but instead has apparently inserted a BP representative into the editing community who provides Wikipedia editor
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
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