Mongoose: $540M for Fake News? How Much Open Source Intelligence Could That Buy for Special Operations Forces?

Pentagon paid PR firm 540mn to make fake terrorist videos The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.   . . .    The firm created television ads showing Al-Qaeda in a negative light …

Robert Steele: Reflections on The People’s Army, The Constitution, & Grand Strategy

These are my personal views that do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense or any element thereof. Reflections on The People’s Army, The Constitution, & Grand Strategy Robert David Steele DOC (11 Pages) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Army-Constitution The People’s Army – the Continental Army rooted in home-spun militias – was formed and …

Michael Kearns: Jean Baudrillard on Four Realities

“Postmodernist French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal. Where Plato saw two types of representation—faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum)—Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality; (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is …

Robert Parry: Jonathan Marshall on US Arms Makers Inciting a New Cold War

US Arms Makers Invest in a New Cold War Behind the U.S. media-political clamor for a new Cold War with Russia is a massive investment by the Military-Industrial Complex in “think tanks” and other propaganda outlets, writes Jonathan Marshall. Think tanks like the Lexington Institute are prime movers behind the domestic propaganda campaign to revive …