The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Southern Poverty Law Center Report: As Election Season Heats Up, Extremist Groups at Record Levels The American radical right grew explosively in 2011, a third consecutive year of extraordinary growth that has swelled the ranks of extremist groups to record levels, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The …
Evidence of War Lies Public Pre-War This Time By David Swanson WarIsACrime.org, 9 March 2012 When President George W. Bush was pretending to want to avoid a war on Iraq while constantly pushing laughably bad propaganda to get that war going, we had a feeling he was lying. After all, he was a Republican. But …
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A Propaganda Windfall for the Imperial State: Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence Edward Herman, Z Magazine | Book Review TruthOut.org, Sunday 4 March 2012 Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state, currently …
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When War is Promoted as a Remedy for Terror by Anthony J. Hall The You Tube of my San Francisco presentation on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is being presented to the public here for the first time in early March of 2012. Anthony J. Hall is Professor of Globalization Studies. His recent book, Earth …
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In support of the Berkman Center’s conference on truthness, below is an extract from THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Book / Evolver Edition, 5 June 2012). EXTRACT: I now realize that neither governments nor corporations are “fixed” obstacles. In a world of constantly changing information, it is …
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Truthiness in Digital Media a symposium that seeks to understand and address propaganda and misinformation in the new media ecosystem March 6: Symposium at Harvard University March 7: Hack Day at MIT Truthiness Wiki Page (Berkman, not Wikipedia) Tip of the Hat to Patrick Meier.
OWS: Prove That You Truly Represent the 99% Did the OWS movement ever truly represent the 99%. It’s looking doubtful. Most of the 99% aren’t anarchists. They don’t want to abolish government; they want to reform it. But the OWS movement was started by anarchists and has been run, to a large extent, on anarchic …
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