Kit Knightly “Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog.” Wag the Dog is possibly the greatest political satire Hollywood has produced. It’s just that simple. If you only take one message away from this review, it …
Book review: War Made Invisible: How American Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomonby Ian SinclairPeace NewsDecember 2023-January 2024 Earlier this year Brown University’s Costs of War project calculated the US-led ‘war on terror’ has led to nearly one million people killed due to direct violence, many more dead from indirect […]
Kevin Ryan In 2020, I gave a presentation that compared the unfolding events of Covid to the crimes of 9/11. In it I described eleven features and outcomes of the 9/11 crimes that were shared by the Covid events. Unfortunately, some people who understood that 9/11 was a lie wouldn’t consider the possibility that Covid could be …
Serves As an Award Presenter at 40th Anniversary Gala of CIA Cutout Barbara Lee (D-CA), 77, is rightly revered in progressive circles as the sole member of Congress—House or Senate—to have voted against a resolution that gave the president power to wage aggressive war indefinitely in the Middle East after 9/11.[1] On November 14, however, […]
The CIA’s Museum is a monument to lies, murder and secret power. Not officially, of course, they use much prettier...
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To think that tiny little Gaza is the spark that has refocused the energies of the whole region is a political miracle that many political scientists will find difficult to understand, let alone explain.
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John & Nisha Whitehead “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” Hermann Goering For …
Macaulay and the Ghosts of Tyranny Past, Part 2 by James Bovard Reposing with a favorite author in the Virginia Tech library in 1976, I savored one zinger after another in Thomas Macaulay’s History of England. Macaulay hailed the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 as “the most stringent curb that ever legislation imposed on tyranny,” […]
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America is addicted to war. But its citizens rarely see the brutal realities of the U.S. military industrial complex up close. That is because our pliant media hides the carnage from the public, refusing to report on the victims of the war machine, and uses euphemisms like "surgical strikes" and "enhanced interrogation techniques" to mask the barbarity meted out by Washington around the world.
Kit Knightly In just the last few days ISIS – Islamic State or ISIL or Da’esh or whatever – have hit the headlines in publications from all over the world. A strong resurgence for a narrative that’s been more than quiet for the last few years. To do a quick recap, when last we heard …
