By Friday, September 14 (2001), the tone of television coverage had moved from shock to fury, legitimizing, even advocating, total vengeance, no matter what the consequences. This was especially evident in one of the worst journalistic innovations of the past twenty years, the use of the sensationalizing banner headline designed […]
Fascism
DO THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS BLAME BUSH FOR 9/11 ? I learned about 9/11 from the news. Before the second plane had crashed, people in the crowd told me and the rest of America it was Osama bin Laden and Arab hijackers trained in Afghanistan with the help of Saddam Hussein. […]
[ What Really Happened.com is running a lot of interesting 911 materials at the moment. This from the excellent Washington’s Blog ] 9/11 Commissioners: The 9/11 Commission’s co-chairs said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges […]
[ … just like it already has been doing for decades ] The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to introduce any terms agreed in a Middle East peace deal over a period of decades rather than years, it has been claimed. Amid growing but guarded optimism surrounding last […]
[ my guess is that “it’s just not an election issue” ]
… can be found here
“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the TV watcher […]
“When you have a powerful and single-minded lobby that is able to manipulate your government in such a fashion that it pours its national treasure into a racist state, arms it and protects it to the point of becoming an accomplice to its crimes, and, by doing so, willfully alienates […]