From Venezuela to McCain, Big Media and Human Rights Industry in Lockstep
The victims of empire are never more invisible than when it is time to whitewash a departed warmonger.
▶ Global Day of Action Against Torture and Drone Assassination, Minneapolis & Columbus, OH | So I Was Waterboarded
The summary of the torture report was released, and the dutiful US media did everything it could to change the story. The reasoning behind this was simple: it was in the best interest of the United States government to conceal the fact that 1 out of 4 people that were sodomized, waterboarded, or otherwise tortured by the US government were completely innocent.
Kevin Zeese: Chomsky And Kissinger Agree | Avoid Historic Tragedy In Ukraine
It would usually be difficult to find more polar opposite views to U.S. foreign policy, but when it comes to Ukraine, the anti-war intellectual and the former U.S. Secretary of State have more in common than either might like to admit. By Kevin Zeese Popular Resistance @PopResistance MintPressNews.com February 4, 2015 The New York Times reported More
FAIR: Refusing to Take Sides, NPR Takes Sides With Torture Deniers
This notion that the goal of journalism is to avoid "taking sides" is troubling; that's how you get reporting that pretends it's an open question [for example] whether or not humans are raising the temperature of the planet by putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. By Jim Naureckas FAIR.org December 12, 2014 National Public Radio, More
Peter Hart: ‘Debating’ War, Corporate Media Style
What debate? By Peter Hart FAIR.org September 4, 2014 As the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has expanded control over territory in Iraq and Syria, a growing chorus of politicians and pundits are demanding the Obama administration take more forceful military action. ISIS's gruesome beheadings of two American journalists have only increased those calls, leading some to More
Peter Hart: 'Debating' War, Corporate Media Style
What debate? By Peter Hart FAIR.org September 4, 2014 As the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has expanded control over territory in Iraq and Syria, a growing chorus of politicians and pundits are demanding the Obama administration take more forceful military action. ISIS's gruesome beheadings of two American journalists have only increased those calls, leading some to More
Henry Giroux: Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting
The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria offers a near perfect example of both the death of historical memory and the collapse of critical thinking in the United States. It also signifies the emergence of a profoundly anti-democratic culture of manufactured ignorance and social indifference. By Henry A. Giroux Truthout.org | News Analysis More
Robert Parry: Why Take the Neocons Seriously?
Exclusive: The Sunni extremist offensive into central Iraq appears to have stalled, but the political battle rages in Washington where neocons see an opening to pressure President Obama into recommitting the U.S. military in support of neocon goals in the Middle East, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry ConsortiumNews.com June 15, 2014 As President Barack Obama ponders More
Robert Parry: Neocons Have Weathered the Storm
Exclusive: Official Washington’s bipartisan hysteria over Ukraine and Crimea is evidence that the neocons not only weathered the public fury over the Iraq War but are now back shaping U.S. geopolitical strategies, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry ConsortiumNews.com March 14, 2014 By the middle of last decade, the storm clouds were building over the neocons: their “regime More
▶ Nuland Acknowledges US "Invested" $5 Billion in Ukranian Coup
Posted by Bruce K. Gagnon Organizing Notes March 2, 2014 [youtube=http://youtu.be/2y0y-JUsPTU] Victoria Nuland [State Department] admits "we've invested $5 billion" in the Ukraine project . . . that part picks up at the 7:25 mark in the video. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts More
▶ Nuland Acknowledges US “Invested” $5 Billion in Ukranian Coup
Posted by Bruce K. Gagnon Organizing Notes March 2, 2014 [youtube=http://youtu.be/2y0y-JUsPTU] Victoria Nuland [State Department] admits "we've invested $5 billion" in the Ukraine project . . . that part picks up at the 7:25 mark in the video. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts More
Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. —Chris Hedges By Henry A Giroux Wednesday, 25 September 2013 Truthout.org | Op-Ed Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout What kind of society emerges when More