Letter From Rumsfeld

I saw up close how Rumsfeld deliberately caused the deaths of US troops for personal gain. He deserves a special place in hell By Scott Ritter Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘SCORPION…

POLITICIZED INTELLIGENCE

US’ new Foreign Malign Influence Center is just official cover for American intelligence interference in domestic politics By Scott Ritter May 04, 2021 The Director of National Intelligence has ostensibly created a new “center” for the sharing and analysis of…

CIA Manipulates News Media

How the U.S. National Security State Manipulates the News Media By Ted Galen Carpenter March 10, 2021 An especially dangerous threat to liberty occurs when members of the press collude with government agencies instead of monitoring and exposing the abuses…

IT’S NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM

It’s A Propaganda Problem — February 18, 2021 While we all fixate on electoral political solutions, the powerful focus on narrative control, because that’s where real power is at. The people who pose an actual threat to the machine are…

PAPERING OVER THE ROT

Papering Over The Rot The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy. By Chris Hedges February 02, 2021 The death spiral of the American Empire will not…

Dumbing Down Of America

The Dumbing Down Of America By Carl Sagan Extract from, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”  – 1995 – By  Carl Sagan. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the…

JUST SUPPOSE

The Extradition Of Julian Assange By Peter Oborne September 04, 2020 Let’s imagine a foreign dissident was being held in London’s Belmarsh Prison charged with supposed espionage offences by the Chinese authorities. And that his real offence was revealing crimes…