Peter Bergen

Blood Brothers? Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama

Blood Brothers? Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obamaby Ian SinclairMorning Star13-14 November 2021 Having released a joint podcast earlier this year, US music superstar Bruce Springsteen and former President Barack Obama have just published those conversations as a book – Renegades: Born In The USA. The podcast was hugely popular, and no doubt the book will […]

LIONEL PODCAST: The Preposterous Farrago of Myth, Propaganda and Fantasy of UBL’s Capture and Dispatch

A farrago of nonsense. Behold the American exceptionalism meme, front and center. A Jerry Bruckheimer Production, if I’ve ever seen one. (And he’s been consulted in the past, as you well know. remember the Jessica Lynch saga?) Well, when it comes to the official narrative of dispatching UBL, it appears there’s another turd in the proverbial narrative punchbowl.

Ridiculous fearmongering by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Peter Bergen

From this April 15, 2014 CNN video, they start the six minute segment with talk of suspicious backpacks near the finish line of this year’s Boston Marathon, then talk about some purported video of a recent Al Qaeda demonstration in Yemen, and CNN’s “Terrorism Expert” Peter Bergen comes on to scare the viewers about Al […]