Masha Gessen | Russia: The Conspiracy Trap
Russia has become the universal rhetorical weapon of American politics.
The Legacy of Psychological Warfare: The Deep State
Together, the anonymous sources of the “deep state” and the mass corporate media have become accustomed to controlling the narrative told to the public.
Jay Dyer | The Entire Mainstream Warmongering Media is Fake
...even today known establishment and CIA operatives such as Anderson Cooper (CNN-CBS) and Robert Baer (CNN) regularly “report the facts” to millions of Americans...
Max Blumenthal | Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That’s Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
Like The Syria Campaign, the White Helmets are anything but impartial.
Jason Ditz | Congress Wants Another $1 Trillion To ‘Reboot’ The Military
This trillion dollars easily breaks the budget on already prohibitively high military spending, and it’s just one of many schemes likely to be adopted.
John Scales Avery: The Illegality Of NATO
Violation of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles The Greanville Post —Vol. VIII- 2014 May 26, 2014 The US continues to beef up the NATO air force and other branches. Sister Site By John Scales Avery > Countercurrents.org In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to More
Zoltan Grossman: The Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Always Your Friend
So it may be controversial for far-right parties to join governments in the West, but it is permissible in the East if they are mainly opposing Russia. The next time you’re influenced by a facebook meme or a heart-wrenching youtube video about human rights violations by an “enemy” of the West, think about the atrocities More
Drone strikes: tears in Congress as Pakistani family tells of mother’s death
Translator brought to tears by family's plea as Congress hears from civilian victims of alleged US drone strike for the first time Karen McVeigh in New York Tuesday 29 October 2013 15.24 EDT theguardian.com Nabila Rehman, 9, holds up a picture she drew depicting the US drone strike on her Pakistan village which killed her grandmother. Photograph: More
Robert Dreyfus and Nick Turse: America’s Afghan Victims
Even among staunchly antiwar politicians and pundits, few bother to mention the cost of the war to civilians. BY ROBERT DREYFUSS AND NICK TURSE SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 THE NATION See this story at its source » Afghans in Narang district mourn the death of civilians killed in Eastern Kunar, December 27, 2009. RAWA/WIMIMEDIA COMMONS When an American soldier dies in Afghanistan, More
Ray McGovern> US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes Exclusive: Recent comments by U.S and Israeli military leaders indicate that the intelligence services of the two countries agree that Iran has not decided to build a nuclear bomb, a crack in the Western narrative that the U.S. press corps won’t accept, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains. By Ray McGovern January 24, 2012 More