NBC Continues to Push Pentagon’s Military Propaganda

Glenn Greenwald has been tirelessly cover the mainstream corporate media’s perpetual fear-mongering with respect to war with Iran. At a time when few people consistently hold the media elites accountable, Greenwald is one of the few that simply won’t let go of this- he is like a dog with a bone and we are much […]

Washington Post Editorial Board Urges War with Iran

I’m sure that the WaPo editorial board, not to mention its owners, will be urging their children, nieces, nephews and partners to go enlist in the US military for this latest proposed act of US aggression: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION pledged that Iran would suffer painful consequences for plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington […]

Israeli Intelligence Says Failure of Peace Process Harming Israel’s Relations with Turkey and Egypt

It’s no secret that the inability to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict harms U.S. and Israeli interests in the region and that a viable, fair peace agreement would help ensure Israel’s long term security. Despite this, neoconservatives, Christian Zionists and some Jewish organizations roundly denounce this view, known formerly as linkage, because it helps them rationalize […]

Israel Lobby Gives Clinton & Obama Their Marching Orders

Over at Politico former AIPAC spokesman, Josh Block, argues that President Obama and Secretary Clinton better damn well get on top of this Palestinian statehood thing! Of course, Obama and Clinton are on top of this issue to such a degree that it begs the question, if the statehood declaration is only symbolic and largely […]

Washington Post Ombudsman Defends Jennifer Rubin’s Post About the Norway Attack

What is the point of having an ombudsman if all they are going to do is get defensive and rationalize the nonsense that gets printed by their writers/bloggers? So much for accountability. I won’t bore you with a total re-hashing of the controversy, which I wrote about at length when it happened. I was one […]

The National Security State: If We Keep This Up The Terrorists Win

The events of 9/11 have spawned an understandable focus on security, however, the extent of fear-mongering, Islamophobia and ongoing curtailment of civil liberties, along with the meteoric rise of an unwieldy national security state which operates like a secret government within a government, is at odds with the principles and values of representative democracy. The […]

This is why I love Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is a well-known progressive blogger over at Salon who made a name for himself analyzing the legal implications of the Bush administration’s illegal domestic spying, among other things, including the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. He has become a huge thorn in the side of the lazy, sycophantic media and also […]

Thanks to Iraq Invasion Iran is Now the Driving Force in That Country

This was totally foreseeable, not that any of our leaders, the media or the think tanks and commentators will take any responsibility for championing a disastrous war that has made us less safe while empowering Iran. No, now they are busy working on the next war- Iran! Oh, the irony. And because the media unquestioningly […]

It’s Only Terrorism If The Perpetrator Is Muslim *updated*

Yesterday I wrote about how the media’s response to the attack in Norway changed dramatically after it was revealed that the perpetrator was a White, right-wing Islamophobe who was an avid reader of American right wing blogs. What was initially described as an obvious terrorist attack soon became the work of a “lone wolf” motivated […]

*updated* Neocons & Islamophobic Right Not So Interested in Oslo Bombing Now That It’s Clear It Was Not Perpetrated by Islamofascists

Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up. I have been crazy busy at work and at home and was barely able to watch/listen to/read that much about the tragic terror attack in Oslo. But one of the things I did initially hear is that it must be the result of a Jihadi movement. Now that […]

Why All the Iran Fear-Mongering Now?

I wrote about this earlier this week because I noticed an uptick in the articles appearing in the MSM and on right wing blogs about the imminent threat posed by Iran. There is always some fear-mongering boiling under the surface but this almost seems like a coordinated effort to get Iran back on the front […]

Flashback: Israel Planned False Flag Attack Against Egypt, Great Britain & US

I bring this up because I just saw it on twitter and thought it was interesting. Documents declassified in 2010 shed some insight into an incident referred to as the Lavon Affair and also attempts by the Israel Lobby to exert a bit too much influence over our foreign policy. Granted, this was the 1950’s- […]

Secretary Clinton Announced Willingness for Dialogue w/ Muslim Brotherhood and Neocons Heads Explode

Part of the neocon book of hypocritical non-diplomacy is a policy of never talking with people with whom you disagree, except when you do talk to them. Then, when other people do the exact same thing, you denounce them as cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Secretary Clinton on Friday announced the obvious- that the U.S. would be […]

The Politicization of Terrorism and the Role of the Neocons

It’s pretty obvious by now that whom we deem a “terrorist” is largely political. You would think after some of our disastrous foreign policy blunders such as arming the Mujahadeen, aka Al Qaeda and Bin Laden, during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, being best friends with Saddam for a period when it suited our economic […]