We Trained Terrorists In Nevada (and in Afghanistan and in Vietnam and in El Salvadore and in Miami and in the SOA)

by Scott Creighton Seymour Hersh has an interesting article in the New Yorker magazine about how the Joint Special Operations Command conducted training starting in 2005 for members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, the MEK for short. The MEK is a known terrorist organization listed as such by the U.S. government. His article is well sourced and [...]

More Disinformation from CIA Honeypot Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald

by Scott Creighton (H/T Gretavo from WTCdemolition) Peppered into the mix with information we already know, the CIA backed psyop called “Wikileaks” likes to toss out some pure disinformation which helps their various causes. In today’s case it’s nothing less than trying, once again, to connect 9/11 to Saddam Hussain in an obvious attempt to [...]

Freedom is the Freedom to Say 2+2=4

by Scott Creighton What happens to a country when it doesn’t hold it’s leaders responsible for criminal acts and outright lies told to their own people? The people get more outrageous lies and criminal behavior from their government. It is an unavoidable cycle. In a world devoid of accountability and the rule of law, the [...]

How propagandists function: Exhibit A

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon Jeffrey Goldberg, in the new cover story in The Atlantic, on an Israeli attack on Iran: Israel has twice before successfully attacked and destroyed an enemy’s nuclear program. In 1981, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iraqi reactor at Osirak, halting — forever, as it turned out — Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions; and in [...]

What collapsing empire looks like

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military [...]

Israel attacks aid ship, kills at least 10 civilians

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon … It hardly seemed possible for Israel — after its brutal devastation of Gaza and its ongoing blockade — to engage in more heinous and repugnant crimes.  But by attacking a flotilla in international waters carrying humanitarian aid, and slaughtering at least 10 people, Israel has managed to do exactly that.  [...]

Why Brian Ross of ABC News Needs to be Fired

Can the president kill U.S. citizens at will? Can the CIA? Do these questions deserve “mulling over” Mr. Ross? by Scott Creighton Brian Ross is at it again. Someone call Glenn Greenwald. In an article posted on ABC News this morning, Brian Ross seems to be up to his old tricks, helping the dangerous imperialist agenda of yet [...]

Healthcare industry stocks explode as bill progresses

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon The Senate passed its health care bill “by standing up to the special interests who prevented reform for decades and who are furiously lobbying against it now” – Barack Obama, December 21, 2009. ____________ “‘Healthcare shares rose on Monday as a bill to reform healthcare passed the first critical test in the [...]

Obama’s Sophomoric Ft. Hood Sales Pitch

by Scott Creighton A few days ago, I told a family member that the Ft. Hood story just didn’t “sound” right and after reading some reviews of President Obama’s Ft. Hood speech, I am certain now that the official narrative has been completely managed and manipulated from very early on.

Arianna Huffington is a Lying Warmonger of the “Progressive” Kind

by Scott Creighton I’ve said it before and I will say it again; Arianna Huffington is nothing more than an ex-republican, DLCish, corporatist shill in “progressive” disguise. Watch as MSNBC (disclaimer: MSNBC is partly owned by GE… war profiteer extraordinaire) helps spin up lies and disinformation for the imperialist war effort of the Obama administration. [...]