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…
An Attitude, Not A President
By Fred Reed October 31, 2020 Everybody and his goat has weighed in on the election, so I will too. This will make no difference to Trump’s core followers, for whom he is a cult figure, or to those who…
Combustible Mixture Of Ignorance & Power
Extract from, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” – 1995 – By Carl Sagan So true today — October 19, 2020 I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United…
Barrett Nomination Is Another Step Toward Christian Fascism
Barrett Nomination Is Another Step Toward Christian Fascism All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality. By Chris Hedges Hedges received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Colgate University in…
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…