Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
By John Pilger | Friday, September 03, 2010 Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in [...]
The long-awaited peace in the Middle East can only come by accepting realities as they are, and by telling the American people the truth. Such honesty, of course, is in severely short supply. By Gaither Stewart ••• (Rome) On July 20, 2010, Second Protocol, an Italian on line publication, self-proclaimed as a “defender of Human [...]
Now even the New York Times is talking about it— By FRANK RICH | August 28, 2010 [ print_link ] ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero [...]
WAY OVERDUE DEPT.— The Big Lie machine built by the right (and the establishment) must be broken. But that important feat won’t be achieved until progressives get serious about building their own media and mass communications structure. By Don Hazen, Crossposted with http://www.alternet.org/story/21192/ ® THIS IS AN ARCHIVAL PIECE OF LASTING INTEREST See also this [...]
Terrorists, Insurgents or Resistance? (Rome) Names like Hamas and Mujahideen and Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah that ring strange and scary to the Westerner’s ear and cited over and over in the news create sensations of tension and fear. Hezbollah is a familiar name, often linked to repetitive scenes of tightly knit military formations marching shoulder [...]
Just the logical result of electing a pseudo-leader, a smooth cutout for the reigning oligarchy. President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the [...]
Citizen Scaife BY KAREN ROTHMYER This article is abridged from Speak Out Against the New Right edited by Herbert F. Vetter (Boston: Beacon Press, 1982) A large number of organizations owe their existence to the generosity of one of the richest men in America, Richard Mellon Scaife (right). Scaife, a great-grandson of the founder of [...]
It had to end like this. You don’t allow the amoral rich to run a nation without effective oversight and restraint and expect a just, democratic, and compassionate republic. There’s only one common factor in the failure of great nations: Mismanagement. The USA is heading down a well traveled road to its own Armageddon. Rome, [...]
The Israeli lobby’s brazen intrigues and naked power are becoming an embarrassment to the American political elite James Petras’ powerful 2006 book titled, “The Power of Israel in the United States” explained the enormous Jewish Lobby influence on US Middle East policies. Often harming American interests, they’re pursued anyway because of its grassroots and high-level [...]
The Kochs are poster boys for the plutocratic cancer devouring the American republic. By Joe Conason | Posted on Aug 27, 2010 Despite the kaleidoscopic proliferation of political media over the past decade, most of what Americans hear and read about the workings of our democracy can be politely termed superficial. Only very rarely does [...]
