Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS

Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch.  DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …

Review: We Meant Well – How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

Peter Van Buren  5.0 out of 5 stars Six Stars & Beyond–Open Heart Surgury on a Corrupt Ignorant Government,September 29, 2011 FINAL REVIEW The author himself begins the book with a reference to Dispatches (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) followed by Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition, to which I would add A Rumor of War. …

Mini-Me: Video Scan of Occupy Wall Street, Topless Videos (6) and Photos (4)

UPDATE 26 Oct 2001:  Newly available offerings added. Topless Protesters at Occupy Wall Street (requires YouTube sign-in) VIDEO: Best Group Topless (requires YouTube signin) VIDEO: More Topless Protesters Making Sense at Occupy Wall Street Video: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Topless Naked Girls Video: Occupy Wall Street Protest: “Topless” Against Christopher Columbus Day   OCCUPY WALL STREET …

Cynthia McKinney: Hands Off Libya — 21 Sep Protests

Phi Beta Iota:  The following is being circulated world-wide (less US “mainstream” media), and represents both an African view, and the view of those associated with Cynthia McKinney and her related concerns of 21st Century imperialism and genocide against black Africans at the hands of the Libyan forces seeking to topple Qathafi. Hands off Libya …