Mass media are owned and controlled by wealthy people in coordination with the secretive government agencies tasked with preserving the world order upon which the media-owning plutocrats have built their kingdoms, says Caity Johnstone.
Category: Commentary
Craig Murray: FBI Fabrication Against Assange Falls Apart
Thordarson was always the most unreliable of witnesses, and it seems impossible to believe FBI cooperation with him was ever any more than deliberate fabrication of evidence by the FBI, says Craig Murray.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Arc of Decline
U.S. leaders would rather accept ever-more extreme isolation as the price of power than surrender any of it.
Pentagon Papers Failed to Stop Media Kowtowing
The revelations of the secret study should have spawned permanent, radical skepticism concerning the candor and competence of U.S. foreign interventions, writes James Bovard.
What Mike Gravel Meant
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked, by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
1967: End of Israel’s ‘Golden Age’ in Africa
Yotam Gidron recalls a time when Israel — before its occupation of the Sinai Peninsula — was diplomatically engaged with Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and projecting itself as a plucky postcolonial nation.
The Spirit of Carabobo Versus the Threats of Monroe
Simón Bolívar wrote that the United States “seemed predestined by Providence to plague Americas with miseries in the name of liberty,” Vijay Prashad reminds us.
‘What Happened to Glenn Greenwald?’
‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order
U.S. officials babble endlessly about “rules” and the “rules” are literally always tools for the benefit of the U.S., which literally always flouts those “rules” worse than any other government on earth, writes Caity Johnstone.
Craig Murray: Black Ops in the Black Sea
The former British ambassador reacts to news that Russia fired warning shots at a British destroyer on Wednesday that entered the territorial waters of Crimea, still claimed by Ukraine.