The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two men working for the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s U.S. ambassador, and bomb Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C., and Buenos Aires. An opinion by Maidhc Ó Cathail: In his latest Antiwar.com piece, Justin Raimondo asks some of the questions […]
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Iranian terror plot reads like a Hollywood script
October 13, 2011Propaganda Semantics
September 29, 2011As PBS put it, Frank Luntz’s expertise is “testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their products, or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate.” In other words, propaganda. Here are some actual examples of Luntz’s fine work: Don’t say “oil drilling.” Say “energy exploration.” Don’t say “global warming.” […]
Widespread Corruption Contributed to Decline of the United States of America
September 17, 2011“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” —Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689–1755) Around the world, many are baffled by what’s happening to the United States. The American economy is in the doldrums, the American political system is dysfunctional and paralyzed, and a series of […]
US and Saudi Arabia covertly destabilizing Syria
June 22, 2011The efforts to overthrow the Syrian government have a lot in common with what has been undertaken in Libya. The project to break up Libya and Syria simultaneously was initially brought up by John Bolton on 6 May 2002 when he was serving as Undersecretary of State in the Bush administration, its implementation now by […]
Mindsets trapped by American propaganda
May 14, 2011The West can see itself and others only through the eyes of its own propaganda. Political scientists understand that US electoral outcomes are determined by powerful monied interests that finance the political campaigns and that the bills Congress passes and the President signs are written by these interest groups to serve their narrow interests. Such […]
Osama bin Laden and 9/11 will live on despite his death
May 7, 2011For three years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden denied being behind the attacks. Bin Laden stated: “Following the latest explosions in the United States, some Americans are pointing the finger at me, but I deny that because I have not done it. The United States has always accused me of these incidents, which have been […]
Aldous Huxley and WikiLeaks’ Brave New World
December 15, 2010British novelist Aldous Huxley is best known for penning Brave New World, an allegory and prophecy for 21st Century western society. In 1958, he predicted that when concentrated in the hands of the “Power Elite,” rapidly evolving “mass communication” like television would be a critical tool of social and political conformity. Propaganda, the suppression of […]
The economic crisis creates major demand for change
November 1, 2010Years of government and media propaganda in America has given the people in America a false vision of what democracy should look like. At this particular point in U.S. history, most of the people in this country are not sharing in the wealth of our immensely rich nation. Eighty percent of our population jointly shares […]
The U.S. funding enemies to maintain trillion dollar War Racket
June 21, 2010The reasons behind the seeming addiction to U.S. wars is as easy to 1, 2, 3 … #1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell explained: […]
Moral Outrage 