Media comparisons of Navalny to Nelson Mandela are totally off-base
The death of Alexei Navalny at a remote Arctic penal colony is being used to try to sustain U.S. military aid to Ukraine at a time of growing congressional opposition and after the Russians have taken control of Avdiivka,...
By 2016 I had authored four New York Times best-selling non-fiction books about the U.S. government, wars and the American media.
Over this time, I had read jillions of pages of research, interviewed more than 1,000 people, met five American presidents, dined in the personal quarters of the White House,...
Among “unworthy victims” ignored by western media
In the first week of July, Ukrainian army bombing of the Donetsk People’s Republic—carried out with western supplied weapons—resulted in the death of four children.
One of those kids was a 10-year-old girl, Veronica Sergeevna Badina, who was killed by a standard NATO 155...
According to recent reporting by Taylor Lorenz in Wired, a secretive dark money group is funding influencers to post pro-Democratic Party messaging on social media services—paying them up to $8,000 per month...
And the Washington foreign policy establishment still eats them up
In 1975, Philip Agee published his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary. In the introduction, he wrote: “When I joined the CIA, I believed in the need for its existence. After twelve years with the agency I finally understood how...
Letter by group of national security officials expressing alarm at Gabbard’s appointment as Director of National Intelligence, falsely accuses her of advancing a “conspiracy theory.”
This same group expresses satisfaction with appointment as Secretary of State of right-wing coup plotter and warmonger.
On December 4, a group of current and former...
The basic fact that the United States is an empire is perhaps the most systematically taboo subject within mainstream American information systems and public discourse. U.S. imperialism is almost never discussed in depth, critically or intelligently, within corporate media or the educational system. It is never mentioned by candidates...
Since a pack of lies about Alexei Navalny won last year’s Oscar for the best documentary film of the year when he was alive, there is little doubt he can win another Oscar when he is dead.
But alive or dead, the prize-winning propaganda surrounding Navalny’s story bears no resemblance...
Gatekeepers who run groups have links to U.S. intelligence and only allow certain kinds of viewpoints—all while claiming to be promoting education and open debate about U.S. foreign policy
On March 17, 2025, the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations (TCFR) featured two National Endowment for Democracy (NED) staffers who...
Recently, American doctor and ex-Marine Pete Reed was killed near the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine. Since his death, Reed has been lionized as a selfless hero who lived a life of service. Ukrainian sources are quick to condemn his death as a horrible atrocity and Russian war crime.
Reed...
