Tag: propaganda

Listening to the frenzied accusations of  "disinformation", "shill", "stooge", "cointelpro", "propagandist" that activists and journalists are wont to hurl at each other, I decided...

What we know, or have the means to know, is already in excess of any security threat that can be reasonably estimated from random groups of militant Islamicists. Not only that, the concentration of such huge information and spy networks in relatively few hands and the lack of oversight pose a domestic and global danger far greater than the sporadic actions of disenfranchised groups in the Middle East

Stuart Bramhall, author of "The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee" writes this about Wikileaks in response to my latest article,...

"Wikileaks was a conduit for a lot of material that the Wikileakers themselves could not identify or source. If an intelligence agency wanted to...

Obama’s last card - Will he play it? By Alan Hart / STAFF WRITER President Obama ought to have trouble sleeping at night knowing that by...

"Neither raving about espionage laws nor trash about Assange's sex-life questions the underlying assumption that what Wikileaks is about is "expose," "disclosure," or...

Americans tend to believe that American lives are more valuable than the lives of other people. When Americans are killed we never stop talking about it. It, literally, goes down in the history books. But when we kill innocent women and children in other countries we simply say, "Oops, sorry 'bout that," then expect the people to forget about it.

THE BBC IS AT IT AGAIN.. By Ken O'Keefe STAFF WRITER I am honoured to have contributed to Anthony Lawson’s new short documentary, ‘BBC Bias: The...

Stealing America's Freedoms Like a Thief in the Night....

PBS FRONTLINE did a documentary that is now available on DVD accurately called Obama's War. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/ FRONTLINE notes that "Tens of thousands of fresh American troops...

FEW AMERICANS ARE AWARE THAT FOX NEWS IS DIRECTLY TIED TO LIKUD EXTREMISTS IN ISRAEL ISRAEL'S PROPAGANDA MACHINE, WAGING WAR AGAINST ISRAELI'S "ALLIES" By Gordon Duff...

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

As various Peace groups, including a few Muslim-American organizations, prepare to hit the streets of Washington, DC, Chicago, Illinois, LA and San Francisco, California,...

A key strategy of the Right has been to convince as many Americans as possible that the U.S. news media has a “liberal bias,” a canard that has stuck even though newspapers have been traditionally pro-Republican and most media outlets are owned by giant corporations reflecting the interests of wealthy individuals.