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Dec 1132 min read

Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality by David Cromwell and David Edwards

“On August 4th, it was reported another attack occurred. It was not clear then that that attack had occurred. We made every possible...

Sep 28, 202323 min read

Not the Chilcot Report By Peter Oborne

"neither the United Kingdom nor the United States had the intelligence that proved conclusively that Iraq had those weapons. The Prime...

Jul 15, 202338 min read

To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq By Robert Draper

“Richard B. Cheney Oral History, Secretary of Defense,” Presidential Oral Histories, Miller Center, University of Virginia, March 16–17,...

Dec 13, 202236 min read

Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W Bush

"When I interviewed Haig in the early 1990s, I asked him if he was troubled by the pattern of deceit that had become the norm among...

Sep 28, 202276 min read

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War By Craig Whitlock

“There was no campaign plan”: Gen. Dan McNeill interview, undated, Lessons Learned Project, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan...

Jun 16, 202270 min read

Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan By Scott Horton

Mark Tran and Matthew Weaver, “ISIS Announces Islamic Caliphate in Area Straddling Iraq and Syria,” Guardian, June 30, 2014 Daniel...

May 7, 20223 min read

Rise of Islamic State By Patrick Cockburn

"What my constant cry was that our biggest problem was our allies. Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks...

Apr 29, 20224 min read

Under the Black Flag: An Exclusive Insight Into the Inner Workings of ISIS By Sami Moubayed

Abolition of the Caliphate 1924 "As recently as last week, as the chairman alluded to, Stuart Levey, who is the Under Secretary of the...

Apr 14, 202239 min read

The Management of Savagery By Max Blumenthal

"Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs that the American intelligence services began to aid the...

Apr 14, 202285 min read

Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East By Christopher Davidson

"But not a word of criticism or of disapproval have I heard of Hitler. He is as immune from criticism as a king in a monarchical country....

Mar 14, 202252 min read

Enough Already: Time To End The War On Terrorism By Scott Horton

"far from being religious zealots, a large number of those involved in terrorism do not practice their faith regularly. Many lack...

Feb 18, 202231 min read

America's Deadliest Export Democracy By William Blum

"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," agrees Weinstein. The biggest difference is that when such...

Feb 18, 20224 min read

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making By David Rothkopf

"This paper has provided a first estimate of the world distribution of household wealth. It is evident that the distribution is highly...

Jan 28, 202210 min read

Giants: The Global Power Elite By Peter Phillips

"The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion...

Jan 21, 202275 min read

Killing Hope By William Blum

"If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them...

Dec 3, 202115 min read

The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by Book by Colin A. Ross

Wernher von Braun Tuskegee Syphilis Study "The year 1963 marks the 30th year of the long-term evaluation of the effect of untreated...

Nov 17, 202119 min read

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control By Stephen Kinzer

"When Churchill spoke of a world “made darker by the dark lights of perverted science,” he was referring to the revolting experiments...

Oct 5, 20210 min read

Rhodes: The Race For Africa By Antony Thomas

"Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world...

Apr 10, 202114 min read

The Scientific Outlook By Bertrand Russell

"The advantages of world-wide organization, both in preventing the waste of economic competition and in removing the danger of war, are...

Mar 31, 20215 min read

The Impact Of Science On Society By Bertrand Russell

"There is, it must be confessed, a psychological difficulty about a single world government. The chief source of social cohesion in the...