‘Aleppo Boy’ versus ‘Mosul Girl’: How the Western MSM Peddles War Propaganda

‘Aleppo Boy’ versus ‘Mosul Girl’: How the Western MSM Peddles War Propaganda

The world recently got a crude lesson as to how the Western media machine manipulates its news coverage to fit NATO’s regime- change agenda. During two parallel global events – the Russian-backed liberation of Aleppo and the US-backed liberation of Mosul – viewers witnessed the tragic circumstances of two children, with two radically different media…

The Bankers of Death: Rockefeller, Morgan, and War

The Bankers of Death: Rockefeller, Morgan, and War

This article is excerpted from Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy, chapter 8, “Rockefeller, Morgan, and War” (1984; 2011). During the 1930s, the Rockefellers pushed hard for war against Japan, which they saw as competing with them vigorously for oil and rubber resources in Southeast Asia and as endangering the Rockefellers’ cherished dreams of…

Saudi Arabia’s Brutal and Futile War in Yemen Turns Two

Saudi Arabia’s Brutal and Futile War in Yemen Turns Two

The war has failed to achieve any of its aims. The Saudi-led—and U.S.-backed—war in Yemen turns two on March 26. The war, initially dubbed “Operation Decisive Storm,” and now more ironically called “Operation Restoring Hope,” has failed to achieve any of its aims. Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who Saudi Arabia erroneously claims are Iranian proxies, have…

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA): Washington’s Little Known Spy Agency

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA): Washington’s Little Known Spy Agency

US spying is institutionalized – on anyone, anywhere for any reason or none at all. Invented national security threats, targeting dissent and whistleblowers, along with challenging press freedom undermine fundamental rights. In Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the Supreme Court called “(f)reedom of thought the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”…