By Eva Bartlett | Dissident Voice | October 10, 2015 Over the past five years, the increasingly ridiculous propaganda against President al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has ranged from the scripted (OTPOR fomented -“revolution“) “peaceful protesters under fire” rhetoric, to other deceitful lexicon like “civil war,” and “moderate rebels.” As the intervention campaigns […]
Press TV – October 10, 2015 Militants trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fight against the Syrian government are now under Russian missile strikes with little prospect of rescue by their American supporters, according to US officials. Russia has directed parts of its military campaign against US-backed terrorists and other extremist groups […]
Press TV | October 7, 2015 The United States has condemned Russia for striking the Western-backed militants in Syria and denied that it is cooperating with Moscow in this regard. Speaking at a press conference in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called the airstrikes against terrorists “a fundamental mistake”. “I have […]
By Kevin Ryan | Dig Within | October 4, 2015 A recent book written by veteran CIA officers describes how deception can be identified by simple observational techniques. In Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception, authors Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero outline a number of verbal and […]
By Graham E. Fuller | Consortium News | September 29, 2015 All countries do it — promoting their own societies in ideal terms in order to influence others. The U.S. devotes a huge amount of time and money to selling its self-image and a view of the world as seen through American eyes — and […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | September 28, 2015 In this age of pervasive media, the primary method of social control is through the creation of narratives delivered to the public through newspapers, TV, radio, computers, cell phones and any other gadget that can convey information. This reality has given rise to an obsession […]
By Steve Straehley | AllGov | September 28, 2015 Details of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) torture program have been unlawfully kept from public view, according to a complaint filed with the National Archives. OpenTheGovernment.org listed in a complaint (pdf) five areas of concern that have been classified or redacted from the version of the […]
By Martin A. Lee | Consortium News | 1997 In broad daylight on May 2, 1997, 50 armed men set upon a television station in Istanbul with gunfire. The attackers unleashed a fusillade of bullets and shouted slogans supporting Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Tansu Ciller. The gunmen were outraged over the station’s broadcast of a […]
By Kevin Ryan | Dig Within | September 27, 2015 Media interest in Saudi Arabian connections to the crimes of 9/11 has centered on calls for the release of the 28 missing pages from the Joint Congressional Inquiry’s report. However, those calls focus on the question of hijacker financing and omit the most interesting links […]
RT | September 22, 2015 To achieve victory in the Middle East, the US needs to establish and protect rebel enclaves in Syria, and launch another “surge” in Iraq, former CIA director and retired US Army general David Petraeus told a Senate panel. This was the first public appearance for the retired general and former […]
