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"Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world... Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

BOOKS

from January 2008

Pretensions to Empire - Lewis Lapham
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
American Fascists - Christian Right and War on America - Chris Hedges
Nemesis - Chalmers Johnson

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."

George Orwell

from July 2007

Empire's Workshop - Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism - Greg Grandin
Bush Agenda, The - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time - Antonia Juhasz
American Theocracy - radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century - Kevin Phillips
Censored US Foreign Policy News Stories - 2008

The End of America - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot - Naomi Wolf
Book
Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer - Hellen Caldicott
Contrary Notions -The Michael Parenti Reader

"Debates over Iraq ... are aberrations. Most of the time, in truth, most of the media take their cues from the government in deciding which foreign stories to cover.

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

 

ARTICLES

from January 2008

The Gardens of the Devil [cluster bombs] (2/08)
Elite 'Democratic' Planning at the Council on Foreign Relations
[Part 1 of 2] (2/08)

Joseph Stiglitz - $3 Triilion War in Iraq - Amy Goodman interview (2/29/08)
False Flag Prospects, 2008 (2/08)
Women's lives worse than ever [in Afghanistan] (2/08)
Washington gets a new colony in the Balkans [Kosovo] (2/08)
The Real Story Behind Kosovo's Independence (2/08)
NATO's Reign of Terror in Kosovo (2/08)
Children Are Forty Percent of Cluster Bomb Casualties (2/08)
The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup" (2/08)

"The news and the truth are not the same thing. "

Walter Lippmann

The U.S., the E.U. and Israel join hands [NATO] (2/08)
The [US] Economic Disaster That Is Military Keynesianism (2/08)
Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget (2/08)
War vs Peace: Colombia, Venezuela and the FARC Hostage Saga (2/08)

The Rise of the Imperial Class - [John] McCain is their avatar, and war is their mother's milk (2/08)
Toward a More Corporate Union of the Americas? (2/08)
Putin's Way - Russia's Development Strategy to 2020 (2/08)
The FBI Deputizes Business (2/08)
Permanent Bases in the Region [Middle East] (2/08)
NATO's Kosovo Colony (2/08)

"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but [an American] political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either."

Edward Zehr

Undermining Bolivia (2/08)
Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood (2/08)
AFRICOM - Professor Horace Campbell - Bush's Militarization of Africa (2/08)
When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution (2/08)
What Do We Stand For? (2/08)
Threats of Our Own Making (2/08)

Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water (2/08)
The Dollar's Reserve Currency Role is Drawing to an End (2/08)
Gladio - Death Plan For Democracy (2/08)
Militarism Is Deeply Entrenched in the American Psyche (2/08)
Fragile Dollar Hegemony: Iran's Oil Bourse could Topple the Dollar (2/08)
Suharto, the Model Killer, and His Friends in High Places (2/08)
New World Order: Unimaginable Intentional Human Suffering (2/08)

 

"When it comes to world history, politics, and even geography, our educational system is so abysmal that Americans know little if anything about them by the time they start reading the news as adults."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

The Internet Must Die (1/08)
Democracy Now: A Relief From Corporate News B.S. (1/08)
The Fraud of Bushenomics: They're Looting the Country (1/08)

"Operation Condor" Was No Mystery to Washington (1/08)
There Is "No War on Terror" (1/08)
The Whole World Was Watching [Burma] (1/08)
Corporations Reaping Millions as Congo Suffers Deadliest Conflict Since World War II (1/08)
US and Europe Accused of Undermining Human Rights (1/08)
Human Rights Watch 2008 Report: Democracy Charade Undermines Rights (1/08)
Despots Masquerading as Democrats - Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 - Introduction (1/08)

Iraq conflict has killed a million (1/08)
Operation Desert Slaughter [Operation Desert Storm - 1991] (1/08)
Accountability for Suharto's Crimes Must Not Die With Him (1/08)

America - a Bankrupt Empire- blowback from foreign policy (1/08)
Going Bankrupt - why the debt crisis is now the greatest threat to the American republic - Chalmers Johnson (1/08)
US Exported $600M in Agricultural Products to Cuba in 2007 - Remains Cuba's Top Food Source [despite 50 year trade embargo] (1/08)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé - book review by Mostafa Omar (1/08)

"Our strategy [after the fall of the Soviet Union] must now refocus on precluding the emergence of any potential future global competitor."

U.S. Defense Planning Guidance, 1992

from July 2007

Looking at America - New York Times (12/07)
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A profile in courage, honor and hope (12/07)
Police State America - a look back and ahead (12/07)
Ethiopia in Somalia: One year on (12/07)
Greg Palast interviews President Correa of Ecuador] (12/07)
For Israel's Arab Citizens, Isolation and Exclusion (12/07)
Global War On Terror: Egypt (12/07)

Global War On Terror: The Philippines (12/07)

United Nations and Transnational Corporations: a deadly association (4/07)
Pilfering Congo's wealth at warp speed (7/06)
Congo's Civil War and Global Corporations (3/06)

Uzbekistan: Interview With Former British Ambassador Craig Murray (2/05)
D.R. Congo: Gold Fuels Massive Human Rights Atrocities (6/05)
US Support for Repression in Uzbekistan Belies Pro-Democracy Rhetoric (6/05)
The Dangers of Friendly Dictatorships (11/05)

Congo, Inc.: Corporate Crime and Genocide (12/05)

"Books ... are an excellent container for the accumulation, quiet scrutiny and organized analysis of information and ideas. It takes time to write a book, and to read one; time to discuss its contents and to make judgments about their merit, including the form of their presentation. A book is an attempt to make thought permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past."

Neil Postman

FBI campaign against Einstein - The Einstein File by Fred Jerome - reveals effort by FBI director J Edgar Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even a Soviet spy (6/02)

Israel rules cluster bomb use legal - Israel is accused of dropping about four million cluster bombs in Lebanon (12/07)
Creeping Fascism: Lessons From the Past (12/07)
"Today's Decision Would Make George Orwell Proud" - FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on the FCC's Vote to Rewrite the Nation's Media Ownership Rules (12/07)
The Path to a National Popular Vote (12/07)
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? -Aristide and the 2004 Coup in Haiti (12/07)
Nepal agrees to abolish monarchy (12/07)

In London, the World Gathers Against War (12/07)
Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950 (12/07)
Putin Agonistes: Missile Defense will not be Deployed (12/07)
More Media Disinformation? FCC Proposes Greater Media Consolidation (12/07)
Are You Going to Pay for Bush's Wars? (12/07)
The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators In Afghanistan (12/07)
Ecuador to Evict U.S., Offer Air Base to China (12/07)
Chaos Reigns in the Central African Republic (12/07)
Empire and Nuclear Weapons (12/07)
Iraq as a Pentagon Construction Site (12/07)
Ex-Italian President: 9/11 inside job run by CIA & Mossad (12/07)
Habeas Corpus - the most extraordinary writ (12/07)
Cluster Bomb Ban Talks Open in Vienna (12/07)
Bush Goes Private to Spy on You (12/07)
Thinking Internationally - Acting Locally (12/07)
The Theater of the Absurd [2008 presidential election] (12/07)
Progressive Change in Venezuela and Latin America (12/07)
US says it has right to kidnap British citizens (12/07)
How to Really Love Your Country: Five Objectives for True Patriots (12/07)

Is Russia Democratic? (12/07)

Why Boycott Exxon-Mobil and Chevron-Texaco? (4/06)
Ecuador: Chevron-Texaco's toxic legacy (5/06)

The Worst Case of Oil Pollution on the Planet - Chevron in Ecuador (9/07)
Justice in Oil Well Hell - Chevron in Ecuador
Chevron's Rainforest Chernobyl - Ecuador Toxic Contamination 30 Times Larger Than Exxon Valdez
ChevronTexaco's Exploits In Ecuador

Somalia: US Foreign Policy and Gangsterism - Why the US supports the warlords (12/06)
America's interests in Somalia: Four major U.S. oil companies are sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions (1/07)

"In a culture dominated by print, public discourse tends to be characterized by a coherent, orderly arrangement of facts and ideas. The public for whom it is intended is generally competent to manage such discourse. In a print culture, writers make mistakes when they lie, contradict themselves, fail to support their generalizations, try to enforce illogical connections. In a print culture, readers make mistakes when they don't notice, or even worse, don't care."

Neil Postman


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