During the Vietnam War era, peace activists compared American war planners like Robert S. McNamara and Henry Kissinger to Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of War Production and Armaments who stood out for his lack of ideological zeal in supporting the Nazi cause. What motivated Speer, rather, was a cold...
Biden announced last month the assembly of a team within the Department of Homeland Security with the title: Disinformation Governing Board (DGB). Supposedly this team will be working to combat Russian, Iranian, and Chinese “disinformation.” We dive deeper into the contradictory history of disinformation about Ukraine in 2014 spread by non other than the executive director of the DGB board, Nina Jankowicz.
Listen to the eighth installment of political satirist and civil rights activist Randy Credico’s show “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom,” an ongoing series in support of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This episode features special co-host, Aaron Maté, journalist and host of The Grayzone’s media show, Pushback. This podcast is...
Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy.
With sharp insight and urgency, Boghosian—the director of the AJ...
Edward Bernays may be known as the Father of Public Relations, but you would not be mistaken if you thought of him as the Father of Lies. He was a bullshit artist par excellence who pioneered countless methods of deceiving the public.
For Bernays—author of mind-control manuals like Propaganda and...
While sitting in my apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, and reading the online edition of Time magazine (5/19/16), I noticed a report asserting that there was not even something as basic as aspirin to be found anywhere in Venezuela: “Basic medicines like aspirin are nowhere to be found.”
I walked out of the...
The European Woke International of Hypocrisy and Neo-Colonialism looks past the incendiary escalation of the Ukraine conflict, preferring instead to spoil the beautiful game for hundreds of millions of soccer fans in Arab and developing countries.
Anyone who thought the media would take an in-depth look at the current and...
MSNBC legal analyst Daniel Goldman, Majority Counsel in the first Trump impeachment inquiry, adds to the vast TV disinformation wasteland
Goldman claimed on air that the U.S. routinely works to prevent military coups—when it is a leading perpetrator of them
In the vast wasteland that is cable television “news,” every...
In this extraordinary fifth installment of "Live on the Fly - Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom," Randy Credico speaks with Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and professor at Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; Lauri Love, who successfully avoided extradition to the U.S.; and...
Listen to the latest episode of Randy Credico’s acclaimed radio show “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom,” an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder.
Part One: Alicia Castro and Martin Stolar
Alicia Castro, currently Argentina’s ambassador to the Russian Federation, first met Julian Assange in London,...
