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Noam Chomsky> Is the World Too Big to Fail?
Noam Chomsky, Who Owns the World? “The U.S. cannot tolerate ‘any exercise of sovereignty’ that interferes with its global designs.” Posted by Noam Chomsky August 12, 2012 Tom Dispatch In Noam Chomsky’s “Who Owns the World?” — the most popular TomDispatch post of all time (which means the last 10 years) — he wrote of […]
Destroying the Commons> How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Destroying the Commons> How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta By Noam Chomsky July 22, 2012 Tom Dispatch Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is […]
Glenn Greenwald> Leon Panetta: Macho Renaissance man
Leon Panetta: Macho Renaissance man The U.S. media becomes extra sycophantic when it comes to U.S. military leaders, as 60 Minutes showed last night. BY GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com MONDAY, JUN 11, 2012 07:55 AM CDT Leon Panetta Of all the ways in which America’s establishment media lionizes political leaders, none is quite as sycophantic as […]
Glenn Greenwald> Media, drones and rank propaganda
Media, drones and rank propaganda As usual, the leading spokespeople for government policies are disguised as the nation’s Adversarial Watchdog Press BY GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com FRIDAY, JUN 8, 2012 09:34 AM CDT (Credit: Reuters) (updated below – Update II) Several items today relate to the issue of gross U.S. media propaganda and Obama’s […]
Nygaard Notes> Abandoning Afghanistan
Abandoning Afghanistan Nygaard Notes. Number 508. May 21, 2012 “Quote” of the Week: “The World Expects Our Soldiers to Do What’s Right.” Reporting on… What? Abandoning Afghanistan ”Quote” of the Week: “The World Expects Our Soldiers to Do What’s Right” An April 19th New York Times story reported on the recently-published photos showing U.S. soldiers […]
Glenn Greenwald> “Militants”: media propaganda
“Militants”: media propaganda To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined “militant” to mean “all military-age males in a strike zone” BY GLENN GREENWALD MONDAY, MAY 28, 2012 11:32 PM CDT Salon.com Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were ”militants” – even though those media outlets literally […]
Video> The Secret Government> Propaganda’s Founding Father Edward Bernays Exposed!
Published on Apr 4, 2012 by swagny3000 Darrin McBreen reports on the Father of Propaganda: Edward Bernays. In Propaganda (1928), Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate […]
Celebrating Spiritual Death On Black Friday> Coleen Rowley
Celebrating Spiritual Death On Black Friday Coleen Rowley Posted: 11/25/11 Huffington Post How many remember that this “Black Friday” marks the 10th anniversary of George Bush’s famous presidential advisory just after 9/11 for citizens to do their patriotic duty by pushing their worries aside and going shopping? The idea of asking the […]
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