PNAC: The Project for the New American Century. Iran/USA: Who is Threatening Who? CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup - By Malcolm Byrne. Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
The event's reverberations have haunted its orchestrators over the years, contributing to the anti-Americanism that accompanied the Shah's ouster in early 1979, and even influencing the Iranians who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran later that year. But it has taken almost six decades for the U.S. intelligence community to acknowledge openly that it was behind the controversial overthrow. Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran - By Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid. The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus.
But a generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned. In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq's war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein's military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent. The intelligence included imagery and maps about Iranian troop movements, as well as the locations of Iranian logistics facilities and details about Iranian air defenses.
"The Iraqis never told us that they intended to use nerve gas. The situation changed in 1987. IRAN LIE same as IRAQ LIE. Ducumentary on IRAN Iran Is Not the Problem; Stop War on IRAN. The Power of Nightmares - 1of3 - The Rise of the Politics of Fear-Baby Its Cold Outside. The Power of Nightmares - 2of3 - The Phantom Victory. The Power of Nightmares - 3of3 - The Shadows in the Cave. Chomsky: "Why Do They Hate Us?" Woolwich Attack - How should we respond? MPACUK's Asghar Bukhari on Woolwich Attack - BBC News. What Does Terrorism Mean in 2013? On Wednesday a soldier, Lee Rigby, was fatally stabbed by two men sporting knifes and a meat cleaver.
Before being shot by police, the attackers taunted onlookers, asking them to take photos and film their ideological rants. What followed was a media scramble, with reporters ferociously compiling tweets and smartphone footage in a desperate race to get news of the latest bout of alleged terrorism into the papers. But what does "terrorism" even mean any more? Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, lawyer, and security expert who was partly responsible for former CIA official John Brennan not being made the director of the CIA and forcing a UN investigation into the treatment of Bradley Manning. I called him up to see if he thought the whole "terrorism" thing had just become a label used to exaggerate crime committed by Muslims. Image via. Ben Swann: "No Country Would Tolerate Missiles From Outside Borders" U.S. Hypocrisy?
What motivated the 9/11 hijackers? See testimony most didn't. Motives of 9/11 terrorists. What is fueling this terrorism? Noam Chomsky - "Is Islam the Enemy?" Chomsky on Why are US Troops in Afghanistan. Noam Chomsky Lecture - Distorted Morality. US Terror - Afghanistan, The Taliban & War. Why are we friends with Saudi Arabia? David Icke Problem Reaction Solution. BREAKING: Israel Lobbyist insinuating ''We Need a False Flag to Start War with Iran'' ? Robert McNamara admits Gulf of Tonkin attack did not happen. False Flag Attacks: Myth and Reality.
One of the terms most commonly used by conspiracy theorists when discussing “the real story” behind incidents like the September 11th attacks or the recent Sandy Hook shooting is “false flag,” meaning that it was caused or staged deliberately to use as an excuse to perpetrate something nefarious.
A quick Google search of the phrase brings up an astonishing 42 million hits, with page after page of posts at conspiracy hotbeds like Infowars/Prison Planet, Natural News, Before It’s News, etc. If one were to work solely from this, it would be easy to get the impression that our recent history is jammed with prefabricated incidents designed to enable our government to grab more power, take away the rights of the common people and/or line their already fattened pockets. Further complicating matters, false flags are a very real phenomenon. In military terms, a false flag is any act of deception designed to make your opponent think you’re someone else. Which brings us to Sandy Hook. Escape and Control. Haiti - Shock Doctrine. The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism.
Bill Hicks - Iraq Weapons Conversion. The Real Invasion of Africa and Other Not-Made-for-Hollywood Holy Wars. (Photo: US Army Africa / Flickr)The "Islamic terrorism" that is an excuse for the enduring theft of Africa's vast store of minerals was all but invented by US, Pakistani and British intelligence agencies, which created the mujahedin of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by the Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media. The invasion has almost nothing to do with "Islamism," and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources - notably minerals - and an accelerating rivalry with China. Unlike China, the US and its allies are prepared to use a degree of violence demonstrated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine.
AFRICOM'S "soldier to soldier" doctrine embeds US officers at every level of command, from general to warrant officer. Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent. PsyWar - Wake UP! Who Owns the World? When I was thinking about these remarks, I had two topics in mind, couldn't decide between them -- actually pretty obvious ones.
One topic is, what are the most important issues that we face? The second topic is, what issues are not being treated seriously -- or at all -- in the quadrennial frenzy now underway called an election? But I realized that there's no problem; it's not a hard choice: they're the same topic. And there are reasons for it, which are very significant in themselves. I'd like to return to that in a moment. Actually, a good answer to this was given years ago by Adam Smith, someone we're supposed to worship but not read. The Biggest Bank Heist Ever! The End of Europe. Global Economic Collapse? MIT Predicts That World Economy Will Collapse By 2030. Forty years after its initial publication, a study called The Limits to Growth is looking depressingly prescient. Commissioned by an international think tank called the Club of Rome, the 1972 report found that if civilization continued on its path toward increasing consumption, the global economy would collapse by 2030.
Population losses would ensue, and things would generally fall apart. The study was — and remains — nothing if not controversial, with economists doubting its predictions and decrying the notion of imposing limits on economic growth. Australian researcher Graham Turner has examined its assumptions in great detail during the past several years, and apparently his latest research falls in line with the report's predictions, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Study shows powerful corporations really do control the world's finances. (PhysOrg.com) -- For many years conventional wisdom has said that the whole world is controlled by the monied elite, or more recently by the huge multi-national corporations that seem to sometime control the very air we breathe.
Now, new research by a team based in ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, has shown that what we’ve suspected all along, is apparently true. The team has uploaded their results onto the preprint server arXiv. Using data obtained (circa 2007) from the Orbis database (a global database containing financial information on public and private companies) the team, in what is being heralded as the first of its kind, analyzed data from over 43,000 corporations, looking at both upstream and downstream connections between them all and found that when graphed, the data represented a bowtie of sorts, with the knot, or core representing just 147 entities who control nearly 40 percent of all of monetary value of transnational corporations (TNCs).
Via Sciencenews.org. Propaganda in the media: the invisible beast « Freelance Lefty. Propaganda is not always obvious.
No longer does it take the form of full-on jingoistic portrayals of the enemy, whoever it might be at any given time. The term is certain to bring up images of those hostile xenophobic posters from the First World War urging working people to sacrifice their bodies and lives for their respective ruling classes. Images, too, of dictators adorned with bouquets of flowers from adoring children will spring to mind. Modern propaganda is a much more sophisticated beast than that of the early 20th century, but its results are no less effective. ITV use fake videogame footage_ claim its authentic IRA video shooting down chopper - YouTube.flv. Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq.
Exposed: Media fabricated 'empty tents' story at OccupyLSX. Weapons of Mass Distraction. Edward Bernays and the Art of Public Manipulation. How People are Manipulated by Fear and Propaganda. Consumerism: A short term reinforcer. Planned Obsolescence Conspiracy. The Gospel of Consumption. And the better future we left behind by Jeffrey Kaplan Photograph: Brian Ulrich PRIVATE CARS WERE RELATIVELY SCARCE in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common.
In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet replaced many of the old gaslights. And within the home, electricity remained largely a luxury item for the wealthy. Just ten years later things looked very different. UNCUT: Planned Obsolescence and YOU. TRMS: Debunks Political Right Wing "News"
Moving Forward - Politics. The Election of Ideas - The Zeitgeist Movement. Trom: The Reality of Me - Politicians, voting and democracy (9) Obama & Romney: Two Sides of Same Evil. 2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes. Obama Supporters Don't Know Obama. Why I'm Voting for Obama *PARODY* Impeach Obama. George Carlin: The Illusion Of Choice. ENLIGHTENMENT MINUTES - with Noam Chomsky. The People's History: An Analysis of the One Party State: At the top of the political pyramid, there is not a constant trade-off between Liberal and Conservative agendas, there is only THE Agenda. Perhaps the most widely proliferated truism of American patriotism is that the the two-party system is a beacon of democracy.
Surely, our system is better than that of Iran, where presidential candidates must be approved by a religious council, or perhaps that of Venezuela, where the majority of the media is state-owned and disseminates propaganda in each election. Democrats and Republicans are widely different, it seems. At least that is what their hyper-partisan bickering would imply. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama must have be unabashed liberals, otherwise why would the Republicans despise them so much? The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News. [The Big Idea] Andrew Marr interviews Noam Chomsky (480p) Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: The Myth of the Free Press: Why You Should Ignore the Fake 'Free Speech Naysayers. When pundits and editors and politicians over the next few days and weeks insist that Leveson's recommendations should be ignored because they endanger the sacred principle of freedom of the press, ask yourself one simple question.
Whose payroll are they on? Invariably, they are either on the payroll of large corporate media conglomerates dependent on advertising revenue from big business, or they're keen to cosy up with the same large corporate media conglomerates. Many are probably working for the very newspapers that have demonstrably committed crimes with impunity, made-up stories with no accountability, and protected power from meaningful scrutiny. The Consequences of Patriotism - Stefan Molyneux on Breaking The Set with Abby Martin.
Iraq: A Decade of Hell. The Cutting Edge: Seven Myths About the Iraq War: How BBC Newsnight failed journalism on the 10 year anniversary of the invasion. As a participant in BBC Newsnight special, "Iraq - 10 Years On", I found myself feeling slightly miffed at the lack of real debate on the crucial issues. On the one hand, Newsnight presented a number of narratives of the war and its aftermath as 'fact', which are deeply questionable. On the other, there were no serious, factually-grounded criticisms of the war, despite a diverse panel which included people who did not support it. What follows is my Newsnight-inspired Iraq War Myth-Busting exercise, based on what was, and wasn't, discussed on the show.
MYTH 1. Sectarian violence has increased in postwar Iraq because sectarianism has always existed in Iraq, and the removal of Saddam allowed it to erupt. The Spies Who Fooled the World. Audiences and Media. There has been extensive research over the years in order to determine how audience respond to messages conveyed by the mass media. According to Gauntlett “Direct effects of media upon behaviour have not been clearly identified” and many postmodernist thinkers would argue that media messages are ‘polysemic’ as individuals interpret things differently and it therefore has the capacity to carry a multitude of various meanings. There are also many variables to take into consideration such as the length of time exposed to media, the subject matter, preconceived beliefs of the viewer and the type of media outlet communicating the message. The ‘Hypodermic Model’ is the earliest theory, which uses the analogy of a ‘hypodermic syringe’ being injected into a patient to describe the media’s effect on the audience.
Katz and Lazarfeld presented a contrasting approach known as ‘Two Step Flow’ which argues that media influence does not have as much of an immediate impact as originally thought. These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America. British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows - Home News - UK. The research, carried out by Ipsos Mori from a phone survey of 1,015 people aged 16 to 75, lists ten misconceptions held by the British public.
Bad News: How PR Came to Rule Modern Journalism - Michael Marshall. The Corporation (2003) SCANDAL: there's a toxic plot in the Conservative party. Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test. I Am Fishhead - Are Corporate Leaders Psychopaths? (2011) 'Obey': Film Based on Chris Hedges' 'Death of the Liberal Class' How Corporations Destroyed American Democracy - Chris Hedges. Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (whole documentary) Watch The War You Don't See (2010. Israel & Palestine: A History of Occupation. War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935. 21st Century Slaves. The War On Democracy (2007)
John Pilger - The New rulers of The World. The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival. I'm going to talk mostly about the United States, in part because I know it better, but also in part because it its unique significance in the global system. That's been true dramatically since the Second World War. The character and extent of this uniqueness often isn't understood and would be easily worth a talk in itself, but I won't go into that. However, we constantly see that even in relatively small ways.
Chris Hedges Warns of Authoritarian Takeover. John Pilger - War by Other Means. Economic Hitmen. Zeitgeist: Addendum (Part II) Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War to Win Presidency. Obama's War Crimes: The U.S. Drone War. Why we fight 2005. Terence McKenna: Culture is not your friend. Terence McKenna - Cultural Imprisonment. Noam Chomsky discusses the slogan "Support Our Troops" Michael Moore: Those Who Say 'I Support the Troops' Really Don't. I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And guess what -- a lot of these soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines see right through the bullshit of those words, "I support the troops! ," spoken by Americans with such false sincerity -- false because our actions don't match our words.
These young men and women sign up to risk their very lives to protect us -- and this is what they get in return: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. I don't "support the troops" or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. I support you, and will try to do more to be there for you. And please, next time some "supporter of the troops" says to you with that concerned look on their face, "I thank you for your service," you have my permission to punch their lights out (figuratively speaking, of course). Doug Stanhope - Nationalism.