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 'Perception Management' and Information Warfare posted by via fleet, 2010-08-27 19:58:10
The following video documentary exposes the mass media as an orchestrated, managed, propaganda machine -- in other words it has become a thoroughly corrupted medium serving a tiny minority that clearly does not have the best interests of society at heart.
Interviews with highly respected academics and analysts are featured in the doco; they include such luminaries as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Michael Parenti.
The video is a balanced, in depth historical view of the forces that shaped the mass media into what it is today -- it is highly recommended viewing. (full story)
mass media / international
 WikiLeaks: CIA as "exporter of terrorism" posted by Ellen Nakashima via fleet, 2010-08-25 20:46:14
The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web site WikiLeaks. And if that phenomenon were to become a widely held perception, the analysis said, it could damage relations with foreign allies and dampen their willingness to cooperate in "extrajudicial" activities, such as the rendition and interrogation of terrorism suspects. (full story)
mass media / international
WikiLeaks to shift base to friendly Sweden posted by staff report via reed, 2010-08-15 10:07:25
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- The founder of WikiLeaks says he will seek a publishing license for his controversial operation in Sweden where whistleblower protections are strong. (full story)
mass media / international
  Let Them Eat Wedding Cake posted by Paul Craig Roberts via reed, 2010-08-03 20:37:19
According to news reports, Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to investment banker Mark Mezvinsky on July 31 is costing papa Bill $3,000,000. According to the London Daily Mail, the total price tag will be about $5,000,000. The additional $2,000,000 apparently is being laid off on US Taxpayers as Secret Service costs for protecting former president Clinton and foreign heads of state, such as the presidents of France and Italy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who are among the 500 invited guests along with Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Clinton friend and donor Denise Rich, wife of the Clinton-pardoned felon. (full story)
social equality/unity / international
 WikiLeaks publishes damning Afghan War documents posted by Nick Davies, David Leigh via stan, 2010-07-25 20:51:21
The Mass Media were once the guard dogs of Democracy, Freedom and Justice now mainstream journos are the servile, lapdogs of the Oligarchs -- history will record it thus.
The criminal, mass murdering wars the USA and its allies engage in must be exposed if we are to have a chance at a stable, sustainable and peaceful world. This (Independent) site supports our brothers and sisters in the fight for TRUE Freedom, Liberty and JUSTICE and we congratulate fellow Aussie Julian Assange for his skillful and fearless efforts -- We are ONE (full story)
peace/war / international
Star-Spangled Oz posted by Lawrence Latif via Kismo, 2010-07-25 09:42:13
Makes you 'proud' to be Australian. (full story)
mass media / national
Flagrant Lies Governments Tell You posted by David Edwards via jax, 2010-07-15 19:26:39
For the existing (expanding concentric) networks and hubs and for future elites emerging from the drone slave herd -- We are ONE. (full story and 2 comments)
imperialism / international
BP, Corporate controlled government and The Louisiana Testimony posted by Clint Guidry via reed, 2010-07-11 21:24:34
On May 24th, in Galliano, Louisiana, Clint Guidry testified to a delegation of US Senators, Congressmen, Agencies and Departments under Obama’s administration. He sent the following testimony to the president as well, urgently requesting help. (full story)
environment / international
Former Top CIA Spy: How US Intelligence Became Big Business posted by Jeremy Scahill via fleet, 2010-07-09 07:45:03
Few who have seen the dramatic privatization of US intelligence operations from the inside ever speak about the role private contractors play in covert operations--certainly not in public. In late June, however, the CIA's former top counterterrorism official, Robert Grenier, participated in a rare public discussion on issues ranging from the incredible extent to which the US has relied on contractors to fill sensitive national security positions; to battlefield contractors in Afghanistan; to allegations of contractor involvement in "direct action" (lethal) operations, as well as commenting on Blackwater owner Erik Prince's reported involvement in a secret CIA assassination program. The former spy also criticized what he called attempts by the US military to "overstep their bounds" by conducting intelligence operations that traditionally have fallen under the purview of the CIA. (full story)
imperialism / international
Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire posted by Peter Phillips via stan, 2010-07-04 19:51:57
We face what appears to be a military industrial media empire so powerful and complex that truth is mostly absent or reported in disconnected segments with little historical context. A case in point: The London Times reported on June 5, 2010, that American troops are now operating in 75 countries. Has President Obama secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US Special Forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world? If so, this increase is far in excess of special-forces operations under the Bush administration and reflects how aggressively Obama is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global engagement and diplomacy. Somehow this information didn’t make it into the US media. (full story)
mass media / international
The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet posted by Tom Burghardt via Kismo, 2010-06-27 21:13:47
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that "war is the continuation of politics by other means." A century later, radical French philosopher Michel Foucault turned Clausewitz on his head and declared that "politics is the continuation of war by other means." In our topsy-turvy world where truth and lies coexist equally and sociopathic business elites reign supreme, it would hardly be a stretch to theorize that cyber war is the continuation of parapolitical crime by other means. (full story)
mass media / international
[Killing] Plundering the Planet posted by Felicity Arbuthnot via stan, 2010-06-27 04:44:51
"The earth is not dying, it is being killed and those who are killing it have names and addresses" -- Utah Phillips [Great quote. Ed] (full story)
imperialism / international
Wikileaks Soldier Reveals "360 Rotational Fire" Orders to Kill Civilians posted by Ralph Lopez via gan, 2010-06-18 20:53:49
We can thank the arrogant, inept yanks for making plain the REAL state of political ‘play’ today; the USA is now, and has been for some decades, completely controlled by Banks, Corporations and Global Transnationals – as are most other western ‘democracies.’ With that FACT now firmly established by a PENTAGON release of a mineral wealth commercial assessment for invaded Afghanistan, it is now impossible to view American invasive warfare as anything other than what it is, criminal appropriation, mass murder and PLUNDER. A direct link to the culpable has also been established; a bold line of responsibility connects today's wars with the Boardrooms of the largest Corporations of the World. [Dragging reprehensible, murdering, psychopathic EXECUTIVES to the gallows, after due legal process, would be a MATTER OF COURSE -- inevitable!] Ed. (full story)
imperialism / international
Canada: A Democracy in Crisis posted by Murray Dobbin via stan, 2010-06-13 22:02:11
Canada is in the midst of a crisis in democracy unique in its history. There is simply no other historical example that one can compare it to. It is multi-faceted and it affects every aspect of our national politics and political discourse. It is inexorably eroding the political fabric of the country and therefore our viability as a democratic nation. (full story)
social/political / international
Iran and the Balkans: Russia Risks Making the Same Mistakes posted by Pyotr Iskenderov via dragan, 2010-06-12 20:39:29
The recent UN Security Council resolution slapping new sanctions on Iran is likely to become the worst defeat suffered by the Russian diplomacy over the past years. Its negative impact may be persistent and more serious than that of the proclamation of Kosovo's independence to which Russia continues objecting. What we are witnessing seems to be an unexpected recurrence of the syndrome of unilateral concessions to the West which eroded Russia's international politics, especially its Balkan part, in the 90's. Following the Western lead in dealing with Iran, Russia is risking to lose both its positions in a region much more extensive than the Balkans and its hard-earned key role in the raising multipolar world. (full story)
imperialism / international
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