Beverly Bandler | Consortium News | 2 Nov 2014 Many Americans still count on the mainstream media to define reality for them, but too often the MSM spins false narratives that protect the powerful and diminish democracy, as happened in the long-running denial of cocaine trafficking by President Reagan’s beloved Nicaraguan Contra rebels, writes Beverly Bandler.…
in News | 31 Oct 2014 BELGRADE – Trilateral Commission, frequently referred to as “World Shadow Government”, will hold the regional meeting of its European group from Friday to Sunday in Belgrade. The three-day meeting, bringing together members of the global economic and political elite, will be closed to the public, which spurs even more…
by BBC | October 28, 2014 Declassified US records reveal the nation’s intelligence chiefs used hundreds of Nazis as spies and informants after World War Two. Central Intelligence Agency officials are said to have turned to the country’s former enemies to help beat the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Academics studying the documents say…
by kurtnimmo | October 27, 2014 How do Wall Street, oil companies and the shadow government agencies like the CIA and NSA really shape the global political order? That’s the question author Peter Dale Scott examines in his forthcoming book “The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil and the Attack on U.S. Democracy,”…
by Jordan Michael Smith | Boston Globe | October 20, 2014 The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender…
Storm Clouds Gathering | 7 Jan 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ERfxWouXs?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] It has always been in the interest of the ruling class to cultivate illusions which obscure the true nature of the game. Time to look behind the curtain. “Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are…
Robert David Steele | Public Intelligence Blog | 16 Oct 2014 Shadow Government by Tom Engelbardt (foreword by Glenn Greenwald) 5.0 out of 5 stars Responsible and Compelling — Avoids Some of the Darkest Facts, October 16, 2014 A more timely relevant book for US citizens could not be imagined, at least by me. By…
Peter Dale Scott | WhoWhatWhy | 5 Oct 2014 Peter Dale Scott is considered the father of “Deep Politics”— the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose influence on the political realm transcends the elected, appointed and career officials who come and go. A Professor of English at Berkeley and a former Canadian diplomat, he is the…