Pen and Sword

Part I described how the Pentagon's use of retired military media analysts to funnel propaganda through the mainstream media fit into a...

It's fitting that as young Mr. Bush exited the world stage, the military pardoned itself for lying about his woebegone wars in Iraq and...

In December 2008, Joe Klein of Time magazine called the war in Afghanistan an "aimless absurdity." Our new president is onboar...

In a parting gesture, young Mr. Bush gave us the opportunity to laugh him off the world stage, perhaps the only fitting way to celebrate the...

We'll never have a clearer demonstration of the Israel Lobby's unwarranted influence over the U.S. media. Israel, backed and arme...

"Leave them nothing but their eyes to cry with." -- Attributed to a Union colonel of the Civil War serving as an adviser to th...

Thanks to investigative journalist Gareth Porter we know that in January 2006, when Hamas won a 56 percent majority in the Palestinian parl...

I don't know if there's a good guy in the Gaza Strip travesty ; if there is one, it sure isn't young Mr. Bush, or Lord Cheney, o...

We got through Christmas without having NORAD accidently blow Santa out of the sky, but don't let your guard down yet. While visions of...