Several prominent figures, including Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, warned the EU Parliament that its proposed censorship measure would begin transforming the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. MINNEAPOLIS – For much of the year, independent media has felt the sting of Read More…
Social Engineering
The Persistent Myth Of U.S. Precision Bombing
Opinion polls in the United States and the United Kingdom have found that a majority of the public in both countries has a remarkably consistent belief that only about 10,000 Iraqis were killed as a result of the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq in 2003. Estimates of deaths in Iraq actually range from 150,000 to 1.2 million. Part of the reason for the seriously Read More…
White Helmets: A Tool For ‘Regime Change’ In Syria that’s Too Important To Stop Funding?
Washington’s decision to resume funding for White Helmets after a brief freeze highlights how important the controversial group is for the US-promoted regime-change agenda, journalists and Syrian conflict observers have told RT. “The Pentagon planners have probably finally realized just how important the White Helmets are to the regime change operation,” Mike Raddie, co-editor of BSNews Read More…
Despite 17 Years Of War, US Commander In Afghanistan Warns Against Pullout
Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lt. Gen. Austin Scott Miller claimed that he was seeing “progress” in the US war in Afghanistan. He admitted, however, that 17 years of war “is a very long time.” Lt. Gen. Miller is nominated to be the latest in a long line of commanders for the occupation Read More…
Is This The Century of Secession?
Here is the political question of our time: Will it be one future for all, or many futures side by side? Read on. —Any movement toward secession is a good thing, no matter how ill-conceived. It puts a different idea in minds: defect, decentralize, opt out, strive to become more self-sufficient. This idea can spawn Read More…
Border ‘Crisis’ – Is It All About The Children…Or Hatred Of Trump?
Demagogues on both sides are using the border “crisis” to score political points, both for and against President Trump. The real issues — the cause of the problem rather than the symptoms — are rarely debated on the mainstream media and in the halls of Congress. Drug war? Interventionist foreign policy? Welfare state? Government’s undermining Read More…






