Michael Parenti is a political writer, historian, and culture critic. In this talk from 1993 he talks about media consolidation and the top-down control of information (Recorded 17 Oct 1993). From http://www.michaelparenti.org/InventingReality.html How much of what the news media tell us is true, and how does it control our view of the world? In this illuminating, provocative critique of the news media, […]
The people of Antakya blame Erdogan terrorist supporting foreign policy for the bombings in Reyhanli. BSN Editor’s Note: For almost two years, British MI6 and SAS have been training FSA terrorists in these gruesome acts directed initially against the civilian population of Syria.
Root-cause environmental and energy factors sparking violence will continue to destabilise Arab world without urgent reforms by Nafeez Ahmed The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to […]
5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror America’s allies are terrorists, warlords, and corrupt officials, plied with bounty payments and quid-pro-quo assassinations by Alex Kane The recent revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency has handed tens of millions of dollars over to the offices of the president of Afghanistan should come as no surprise. The CIA has […]
By Chris Hedges Murder is our national sport. We murder tens of thousands with our industrial killing machines in Afghanistan and Iraq. We murder thousands more from the skies over Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen with our pilotless drones. We murder each other with reckless abandon. And, as if we were not drenched in enough human blood, we murder prisoners—most […]
Since early 2011, Obama’s been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme’s familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism’s dark side by Stephen Lendman In the 1980s, CIA-recruited Mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan’s Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” He characterized Contra killers the same way. Naked […]
The tempo of events in Syria has accelerated in recent weeks. The government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies by Shamus Cooke With Obama’s blessing Israel fighter jets recently attacked Syria on three occasions; in one massive air strike […]
James Robertson talks frankly about democratising our money supply. Money as debt is not sustainable.
By David Cromwell The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25 per cent of the vote where it stood. This led to a deluge of media headlines and stories echoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s gleeful claim of a ‘game changer’ in domestic politics. The Conservatives ended […]
Simon Dixon shares with ted what the rules of banking mean, what will happen if we dont change the rules of banking and what we can do to change the rules of banking.
The Earl of Caithness speaks [prophetically] This speech was delivered by the Earl of Caithness in the House of Lords, Wednesday, 5 March, 1997. It is reprinted in full from Hansard, Vol. 578, No. 68, columns 1869-1871. The Earl of Caithness: My Lords, I too wish to thank my noble friend Lord Prior for initiating this debate. It comes at […]
In Britain, the modern age of banking began in 1640 when King Charles I, needing cash to pay the (English) army that he was raising against Scotland (of which he was also king!), seized the gold bullion that many merchants and nobles had placed in the Tower of London for safe-keeping. The 2nd Bishop’s War (founded on a difference of […]
