Iraq is invaded… and the first casualty of war is truth
BY MARK STEELE, THE INDEPENDENT You expect lies, but usually they’re found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets […]
Iraq is invaded… and the first casualty of war is truth
Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Thursday 6 October 2016 3 April 2003 You expect lies, but usually they’re found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets rumbled the next day. So the news starts “Oh, apparently that uprising we yelled about […]
SERIOUSLY? Pentagon Paid for Fake ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos
Source: The Daily Beast A controversial foreign PR firm known for representing unsavory characters was paid millions by the Pentagon to create fake terrorist videos. THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM […]
Robert Fisk: Israeli disinformation sullies a rare moment of wartime compassion
Robert Fisk: Israeli disinformation sullies a rare moment of wartime compassion For years, the Israelis have used this wartime operation to justify their mass killing of civilians When will the Israeli government stop misusing the RAF’s wartime raid on the Gestapo’s Danish headquarters to justify their killing of children? Their […]
Washington keeping lying about Syria CW
The weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) issue has been the excuse of choice for the US administrations in order to threaten some countries, such as Syria or Iran, or invade others, such as Iraq. The common point of all these allegations is their falsehood. Nowadays, everybody knows that Iraq did […]
Foreign media portrayals of the conflict in Syria are dangerously inaccurate World View
It is naive not to accept that both sides are capable of manipulating the facts to serve their own interests By PATRICK COCKBURN for The Independent Sunday 30 June 2013 Every time I come to Syria I am struck by how different the situation is on the ground from the […]
How much is the US military spending on ‘war propaganda’? See: Special Operations Command leads propaganda fight
Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 2:53PM EST December 6. 2012 – WASHINGTON — The military’s Special Operations Command has become an emerging player in the Pentagon’s propaganda efforts to confront violent extremists around the world, according to documents and a new report from a non-partisan think tank. Special Operations Command, […]
Paid Advertisements passing as ‘News’. (Who pays for it?) (and why?)
an example: http://www.publici.com/content/russians-are-fleeing-syria?gclid=CNvPoITl0LMCFQzKtAod1EYA7A ‘Russians are fleeing Syria’ Why does this organization need to submit these articles as a paid advertisement? And more important: Who pays for it? and why? Who has the answers?
US formally ends war effort in Iraq
The article is not worth reading. Therefore I am just copying one of the comments: MUKHTAR N. SHEIKH, Dec 16, 2011 10:04 Queer, isn’t it? After all the deaths (4,500 […]