Well over a half billion dollars is shelled out annually by the Pentagon to propagandize and galvanize public support of its wars based nearly entirely on lies — because, after all, war crafted to prop up the military-industrial machine’s profiteering can indeed be a tough sell. In the latest report on Public Relations Spending from the Government Read More…
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Al-Qaeda Videos Aren’t the Only Media the US Has Faked
When a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism is headlined “Fake News and False Flags” you know that something is so rotten in the state of Denmark (or the District of Criminals) that the stench can no longer be ignored. Long story short: “The Pentagon gave a controversial UK Read More…
5 Stories the Media Ignored While Reporting on the Kim Kardashian Robbery
One of the saving graces of the ailing corporate media — for the folks setting the agenda, anyhow — is its relentless ability to hyper-focus the public’s attention on altogether meaningless events. Take, for instance, an armed robbery that sees property stolen but no one harmed. Such an event is unfortunate, yes, but such is Read More…
America’s Secret Cerebral Campaign – Psychological and Informational Operations
Propaganda comes in many shapes and sizes – and our government seems to employ each one with taciturn precision: from popular artwork, to political ads, news, media, television shows, film and even music. “Psychological and informational operations” they’re called, America’s secret cerebral campaigns. In America’s recent past, psychological operations (or Psy-Ops) were not technically legal for the Read More…
Pentagon Caught Paying PR Firm $540 Million to Make Fake Terrorist Videos
According to a new joint investigation by the Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the Pentagon paid a PR firm based in the U.K. over half a billion dollars to make fake terrorist videos in Iraq as part of an enormous propaganda campaign. PR firm Bell Pottinger fabricated short TV segments designed to imitate Read More…
Pentagon Admits To Using Black Soldiers As Test Subjects During WWII
The study, allegedly intended to test the effects of gases on “black skins,” is just one of many criminal and racist studies carried out by the US government in the last century. Though the Pentagon admitted as early as the 1990s that enlisted soldiers in WWII were used as unwitting test subjects in military experiments, Read More…