IntroductionThe Genocidal Intent of Israel’s Military OperationUS Support for Israel’s Assault on Gaza’s Civilian PopulationContinued Warnings of a GenocideThe Biden Administration’s Persistent Complicity in Gaza’s Humanitarian Catastrophe Introduction Under the...
IntroductionIsrael Is a Fundamentally Racist RegimeThe US Supports Israel’s Belligerent Occupation‘AIPAC!’A Manufactured ControversyGoldberg’s Hypocrisy Introduction The news media has been abuzz this week with reports about how Minnesota Representative Ilhan...
The Media’s Longstanding Propaganda NarrativeStill At It…How the CIA Armed Extremist Groups in SyriaThe Rise of ISISConclusion The New York Times has habitually downplayed the early role of the CIA in coordinating the flow of arms to armed rebels...
As usual, the New York Times is spinning information to willfully obfuscate the role of the U.S. in arming Syrian rebels whose ranks include al-Qaeda-affiliated and other Islamic extremist groups, with most of the arms falling into the hands of the...
FPJ — One theme we repeatedly hear about the Obama administration’s plan to bomb Syria is that the U.S./NATO bombing of Kosovo serves as a model. An examination of the reason for this is instructive. It is well understood that the U.N. Security Council...
An image from a paper by Richard M. Lloyd for Tesla Laboratories, a Department of Defense contractor. The New York Times reports: A new study of images apparently from the Syrian attack last month concludes that the rockets delivering toxic sarin gas to...
FPJ — On Wednesday, August 14, the Egyptian military perpetrated its third massacre of protesters since it overthrew the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in a coup d’etat. The attack occurred in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda...
The New York Times reports: As foreign fighters pour into Syria at an increasing clip, extremist groups are carving out pockets of territory that are becoming havens for Islamist militants, posing what United States and Western intelligence officials say may be...
It was obvious from the beginning that there was some kind of cover-up going on with the attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 last year. The most probable explanation I encountered was that the CIA was in Libya, where the U.S. intervened to back armed rebels...
FPJ — When the Obama administration announced on July 25 that it was free to violate U.S. law by continuing to finance the Egyptian military to the tune of $1.5 billion annually, even though it was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected...
An Associated Press article last month titled “US surveillance, arming of Syrian rebels under debate as House takes up defense bill” enlightened us that: The House also will consider an amendment that would bar funds for any military action in Syria if it violated the...
The great John Pilger has an article in The Guardian on the detrimental effects on the health of Iraqis of the U.S. use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions. Pilger writes that among the doctors he spoke with, there was little doubt that DU was...
The New York Times reports on Russia sending “advanced antiship cruise missiles to Syria”, noting that the Yakhont antiship missile system provides the Syrian military a formidable weapon to counter any effort by international forces to reinforce Syrian opposition...
The U.S. media is in full propaganda mode manufacturing consent for increasing intervention in the Syrian conflict, as I’ve commented about repeatedly. Here are two quick additional examples from the same day in the New York Times. Under the headline...
New York Times columnist and former executive editor Bill Keller offers Americans a concise version of the propaganda case for war with Syria in a recent article. He writes: The United States has supplied humanitarian aid and diplomatic pressure. But our reluctance to...
A New York Times article on how the Obama administration is considering directly arming the Syrian rebels states in the second half (bold emphasis added): Last fall, President Obama rejected a proposal to arm carefully vetted elements of the opposition that originated...
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are up to their usual warmongering, urging the Obama administration to escalate its policy of supporting armed rebels in Syria and illustrating remarkable cognitive dissonance. Graham describes the administration’s policy as...
The New York Times talks about “deep divisions” within the Obama administration about the U.S. role in the Syrian conflict: Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta acknowledged that he and the...
The New York Times reports under the headline, “France Says Syrian Rebels Need Aid to Fend Off ‘Chaos’”: France’s foreign minister warned countries supporting the Syrian opposition on Monday that unless they honored their pledges of aid, the...
FPJ — A recent editorial in the New York Times titled “The Syrian Refugee Crisis” offers several examples of how the newspaper of record serves as a propaganda outlet to manufacture consent for U.S. foreign policy. It begins: More than 60,000 innocent civilians...