War and Empire Links: A Sampler

So, you watch CNN or NBC and don't know what to think... about Syria, about Iran, about Yemen, about Russia.

Consider that you're not getting the full story from mainstream media.
In fact, that's all propaganda. It really is an Orwellian world.

And its been going on for a very long time... at least since Edward Bernays, circa 1928.

If you want to immunize yourself from the government-approved talking-points, you need to read non-mainstream media, which has been labelled by some as "fake news" but is actually the real journalism that is being done to try to counter the actual fake news we're inundated with all the time by the usual sources (Washington Post, ABC, BBC, etc.)


For starters, read anything and everything by

Caitlin Johnstone,

including:

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-you-can-be-absolutely-certain-that-mainstream-media-lies-about-everything-a5eec69a9264

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/05/09/we-are-being-lied-to-about-yet-another-middle-eastern-country-by-yet-another-us-president/

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/04/12/the-us-empire-has-been-trying-to-regime-change-syria-since-long-before-2011/

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/04/10/when-a-government-declares-a-verdict-before-an-investigation-its-because-theres-a-preexisting-agenda/

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/04/25/never-let-anyone-call-you-crazy-for-doubting-establishment-war-narratives/

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/05/08/why-you-should-celebrate-loudly-and-unapologetically-when-john-mccain-dies/

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/05/03/israel-is-trying-to-manufacture-support-for-iran-sanctions-to-effect-regime-change/


Chris Hedges

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pandoras-box-of-war-3/

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/deadly-rule-oligarchs/

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/empty-piety-american-press/

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/donald-trump-tyranny

Ian Welsh

http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-world-is-going-to-hell-because/

http://www.ianwelsh.net/stopping-violent-international-aggression/


Glenn Greenwald

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/trumps-support-and-praise-of-despots-is-central-to-the-u-s-tradition-not-a-deviation-from-it/


Eric Margolis

https://orientalreview.org/2017/10/27/raqqa-destroyed-to-liberate-it/

Eric Zeusse

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/04/30/how-facebook-etc.-suppress-key-truths.html

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/04/17/why-trusting-us-government-and-mainstream-media-makes-you-dupe.html


Dmitry Orlov

https://toolatefor2.blogspot.ca/2018/03/the-incomparable-dmitry-orlov.html

https://toolatefor2.blogspot.ca/2017/11/dmitry-orlov-explains-world-like-few.html

https://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2018/04/the-importance-of-looking-dangerous.html


Pepe Escobar

http://www.atimes.com/article/syria-iran-chaos-international-relations/


William Engdahl

http://thesaker.is/the-rape-of-russia-saker-blog-exclusive-interview/


William Blum

https://williamblum.org/aer/read/140

https://williamblum.org/aer/read/156


Stephen Cohen

https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-is-revealing-alarming-truths-about-americas-political-media-elites/


James Howard Kunstler

http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/state-of-failure/

Paul Craig Roberts

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/04/24/where-is-the-shame/


John Pilger

http://johnpilger.com/articles/inside-the-invisible-government-war-propaganda-clinton-trump

Howard Zinn

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176052/best_of_tomdispatch%3A_howard_zinn%2C_the_end_of_empire

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States?from_search=true


Noam Chomsky

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176038/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_rogue_states_and_nuclear_dangers

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55227.Failed_States?from_search=true


Sheldon Wolin

https://www.thenation.com/article/inverted-totalitarianism/

John Bellamy Foster

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186043.Naked_Imperialism

Andrew Bacevich

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-washington-assured-russia-nato-would-not-expand/

Tom Englehardt

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176410/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_america_last/

Chalmers Johnson

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175578/best_of_tomdispatch%3A_chalmers_johnson%2C_the_cia_and_a_blowback_world

Jeremy Scahill

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175766/tomgram%3A_jeremy_scahill%2C_the_fantasy_of_a_clean_war

Laurie Calhoun

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2685

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25198104-we-kill-because-we-can

Other Sites:

Sic Semper Tyrannis

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2017/10/america-desperately-seeking-an-enemy-by-publius-tacitus.html#more


Vineyard of the Saker

http://thesaker.is/when-sanity-fails-the-mindset-of-the-ideological-drone/#f1

http://thesaker.is/the-warmakers/


Moon of Alabama

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/yemen-having-lost-the-war-saudis-try-genocide-.html#more

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/09/a-short-history-of-the-war-on-syria-2006-2014.html

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/05/trump-ends-the-nuclear-deal-with-iran-whats-next.html





Other random links, for further background

https://toolatefor2.blogspot.ca/2018/04/war-and-empire-links-april-2018.html

https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-325-the-information-industrial-complex/

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/27/weapons-inspector-refutes-u-s-syria-chemical-claims/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/state-of-fear-how-historys-deadliest-bombing-campaign-created-todays-crisis-in-korea/235349/

http://lobelog.com/killing-more-innocents-than-we-admit/

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/libya-the-forgotten-reason-north-korea-desperately-wants-23129?page=show

https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/war-making-age-imperial-presidency-war-without-war-powers-not-new-american-way.html

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/04/middle-east-nightmare-made-washington.html

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/05/07/war-and-empire-american-way-life.html

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/04/22/ukraine-korea-syria-iran-falsifying-history-uncle-sam-way-war.html

https://israelpalestinenews.org/oil-for-israel-the-truth-about-the-iraq-war-15-years-later/

https://toolatefor2.blogspot.ca/2017/05/book-intro-war-and-empire-american-way.html