Leon Panetta was drowned out by anti-war activists when he spoke at 2016 convention, but not this time
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta (2009-2011) was among the featured speakers on the final day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on August 22 when Kamala Harris accepted the party’s...
The Wall Street Journal Blames Iran For Helping to Plot Tribe of Nova Massacre When This is Uncorroborated
During the late 1800s, the Hearst yellow press ran stories falsely accusing Spain of sinking the U.S.S. Maine in order to help mobilize public opinion in support of the Spanish-American War that...
From 1983 until 2021, Carl Gershman served as director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was established by Congress to take over the CIA’s covert propaganda initiatives.
The NED packages itself as a champion of human rights, though it finances groups that primarily publicize the atrocities—both real and...
Since his death on December 30, tributes have been pouring in for John Pilger, an Australian journalist who gave voice to the voiceless and had a talent for putting human tragedies into a political context.
Starting his career in the late 1950s working for daily newspapers in his native Sydney,...
Right Out of a George Orwell Novel
As the U.S. escalates its involvement in wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Joe Biden gave a speech at the Oval Office on October 19 that was totally detached from reality.
The speech was designed to legitimize a $106 billion budget request to Congress for...
The Lies About the Killing at Račak Continue in the West to This Day
January 15th marked the 25th anniversary of an alleged massacre in Račak, Kosovo, then a core component of what remained of Yugoslavia.
The alleged killing of Albanian civilians by Serbian security forces provided the trigger for NATO’s...
