Governments survive on myth. Truth is dangerous. As Chief Nazi "Information Officer" Goebbels put it, "...the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." While the main stream media averts its eyes,...
Iran's imaginary nukes and other war-lies: Take 83 - - - It's the sort of bureaucratic lying-by-obfuscation below which caused the U.S. to unnecessarily nuke Japan twice in three days, attack North Vietnam for an incident which Defense Sec. Robert McNamara admits...
The military-industrial establishment now calls U.S. soldiers "warfighters." The problem is, they're not fighting wars anymore. The U.S. hasn't been legally at war since September 12, 1945 when the Japanese forces in Southeast Asia surrendered to Allied Commander...
Could he [Mr. Obama] order the targeted killing of an American citizen [cleric Anwar al-Awlaki], in a country with which the United States was not at war [Yemen], in secret and without the benefit of a trial? The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel prepared a...
"Two weeks after American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a drone in Yemen his sixteen year old son Abdulrahman was also killed, according to Obama adviser Robert Gibbs, because "he should have a far more responsible father." --Kill Lists Will Continue by...
JEREMY SCAHILL: ...you were one of only half-a-dozen members of Congress -- not a single senator -- to simply state on the record that American citizens have the right not to be assassinated by their own government without due process. REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: ...it's...
Both War Party candidates (Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama) have stumbled all over themselves -- and each other -- to promise the government of Israel they won't let Iran produce a nuclear bomb. Unless they begin to believe their own propaganda as Kennedy did (which...
At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later [Aug. 9], a...
Where wars DO come from: "It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The...
OK, this is the first anniversary of the U.S. apparently killing someone with a long beard in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The new spin is that Mr. Obama, making a "gutsy call," took the high-risk course of sending in "boots on the ground" rather than...
