Tag: Propaganda

Operation Beluga Helped Condition the Public to Support the New Cold War On November 1, 2006, a former Russian spy turned British MI6 agent, Alexander “Sasha” Litvinenko, was poisoned with polonium while meeting with two alleged Russian agents, Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, and an Italian security consultant, Mario...
The island of Roatán is one of the most idyllic places in the Caribbean, with beautiful beaches, crystal-clear waters, and luxurious hotels. Although it belongs to Honduras, English is widely spoken there. In 2024, it was selected as one of the best places in the world by Time magazine...
The Trump administration is planning a series of grand patriotic events for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...
Among the many advantages of my generation, becoming adults in the 1960s and ’70s, was what and how we were taught. Advertising propaganda was new in the 1950s and, instead of using it to manage us, we were then taught how to manage it. Government and industry soon learned...
Editors compromised integrity as independent news organizations by sending dispatches from foreign correspondents to CIA The CIA is known to have enjoyed a close relationship with the mainstream media during the Cold War and to have recruited dozens of journalists to help advance CIA propaganda. An article in the November 2024...

Hope and Resolve

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In chaotic times like ours, it behooves us to practice proactive optimism, which is far more than infantile hope or pious faith. Conscious, vigorous optimism is visionary and builds on our awareness of our human identity and dignity. It expresses our faith in humanity, our resolve to be morally and...
On December 28th, The Grayzone exposed how the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) concocted a malign scheme to blackmail and intimidate the EU’s European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the European Commission. Established in close coordination with CIA and MI6 officials to prosecute Syrian officials for alleged war crimes,...
Public relations machine transformed hard-line jihadists—whom Hillary Clinton famously called “hard men with guns”—into valiant freedom fighters in the eyes of the U.S.-UK public Imagine if an armed rebellion took place in the United States against the federal, state and local governments. Given 21st century...

Xinjiang as It Really Is

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An on-the-ground account challenging Western propaganda Upon landing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (commonly known as Xinjiang), it is evident that the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, call this home. As I exited the airport arrivals hall, I noticed a restaurant sign reading “EGG BOMB.” The...
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,...