DhafirTrial

By Freidrich Meinecke, Beacon Press 1972.

I recently read this book while traveling in the U.K. It is a small book, only 121 pages, but has a fantastic analysis of what happened in Germany in the 1930s, with many parallels (more…)

by Greg Moses OpEdNews 6/9/06

The Guard operation at the border has an air of legal peculiarity about it (more…)

Stephen Lendman sjlendman.blogspot 6/9/06

I’ve known about and followed Greg Palast’s important work for some time. I read his eye-opening book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy a few years ago (more…)

“Successive imperialist powers have shown that the bottom line in combating the hopes and dreams of ordinary people is to resort to spreading terror through the application of extreme violence.” Max Fuller; “For Iraq, the ‘El Salvador Option’ becomes Reality”

By Mike Whitney ICH 6/9/06

George Bush is right (more…)

By Dahr Jamail and Jeff Pflueger Truthout 6/9/06

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
– Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II

    Propaganda is when the Western corporate media tries to influence public opinion (more…)

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Distract

    Once a damaging, and most likely delayed, story hits the Western corporate media consciousness, concurrent stories may be released that distract the audience (more…)

By Marjorie Cohn Truthout 6/8/06

    Yesterday, US Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada became the first officer to publicly state his refusal to obey an order to deploy to Iraq (more…)

By John Pilger

This is an extract from Pilger’s new book: Freedom Next Time(Bantam Press, 2006)

The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, an opponent of all kinds of attacks on civilians and a persistent voice for Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, wrote (more…)