Tongue-cutting at Al Jazeera BY GLENN GREENWALD March 31, 2012 Salon.com John Podhoretz (updated below [Sun.]) I’m currently conducting interviews as a follow-up to the rather acrimonious debate that erupted this week from my argument that “terrorism expertise” is not an actual discipline, but rather (like the term “terrorism” itself) just another instrument for legitimizing the violence More
How the Media Doesn't Give Peace a Chance By Richard Schiffman (about the author) March 20, 2012 opednews.com Peace in Action! by http://behebekfalasteen.wordpress.com Who can forget Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter whose stories, claiming falsely that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction, were used by the Bush administration as a pretext for invading that country in 2003 More
Tomgram> Karen Greenberg, A New Age of Enemies Posted by Karen J. Greenberg at 5:37PM, March 18, 2012. Tom Dispatch Just a couple of days after “Sergeant Massacre” left his base in southern Afghanistan and singlehandedly perpetrated the My Lai of the Afghan War, shooting and evidently in some cases stabbing to death 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, a More
New York Times Promoting War on Iran Saturday, 03 March 2012 By Stephen Lendman Media with Conscience (MWC) News Longstanding Times policy supports imperial US wars against nonbelligerent countries posing no threats. It backed American-led NATO aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Using scandalous language like “Assad’s butchery,” it wants killer gangs armed and greater Western More
What Are Iran’s Intentions? Noam Chomsky Saturday 3 March 2012 Nation of Change “Iran has very limited capacity to deploy force, and its strategic doctrine is defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to take effect.” The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article “Time to Attack Iran: Why a More
Cuba Sets a Global Example for the Achievements of Socialism By Peter Phillips (about the author) February 21, 2012 opednews.com In an all-day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro. Those attending were invited participants for the Intellectual Encounters for Peace and the More
How Pop Culture Influences Political Expectations 25 February 2012 by: Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co. truthout.org Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets the crowd at a campaign rally in Mesa, Arizona on February 13, 2012. Film historian and culture critic Neal Gabler joins Bill Moyers to discuss how representations of heroism in movies shape our expectations of a More
Silencing The Critics The western media continually lies. On the rare instances when the lies are corrected, it is always long after the event and, therefore, the crimes enabled by the media have been accomplished. by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts February 20, 2012 Global Research In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of More
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Why the Media Loves the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 9:40AM, February 21, 2012. Tom Dispatch In December 2001, 110 of 112 revelers at a wedding died, thanks to a B-52 and two B-1B bombers using precision-guided weapons to essentially wipe out a village in Eastern Afghanistan (and then, More
Political Language David Glenn Cox (about the author) February 20, 2012 opednews.com Mark Twain by Public Domain "Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."- George Orwell NBC- "The White House announced new Iran sanctions Monday amid a continuing impasse in international efforts More
U.S. media takes the lead on Iran BY GLENN GREENWALD TUESDAY, FEB 14, 2012 Salon.com In this April 8, 2008, photo released by the Iranian President’s Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility. (Credit: AP Photo/Iranian Presidents office, File) (updated below – Update II More
Time for the Tumbrils! by Alexander Cockburn February 12, 2012 creators.com Back in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse pointed out in one of his books that the Pentagon had given up on verbs. Pentagonese consisted of clotted groups of nouns, marching along in groups of three or four. Verbs, which connected nouns in purposive More
