Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear, warned the late John Pilger last May. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
In the War of the Worlds a microorganism felled the Martian invaders the U.S. military (in Orson Welles’ version) couldn’t defeat. The U.S. may dominate the world, but it isn’t an army threatening its demise, says Joe Lauria.