Winter Soldiers Left Out in the Media Cold

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Mike Booth

Last March 13-16 some 250 American veterans of the Iraq and Afghan occupations gathered at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD for the “Winter Soldier – Iraq and Afghanistan” conference, a replica of a similar event which took place in Detroit in 1971, during the Vietnam War. This recent weekend was devoted to [...]

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The Art of Democracy

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Mike Booth

U.S. Artists Mount Countrywide Art Protest
A couple of fine-art printmakers and veteran art activists have recently started a very interesting politiical ball rolling in the United States. Stephen Fredericks, of the New York Society of Etchers, and Art Hazelwood, longtime member of the California Society of Printmakers, have founded a movement–which they call a [...]

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Who is Pepe Escobar, Anyway?

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Mike Booth

Journalist Pepe Escobar is one of those remarkable Brazilians like the film director Fernando Meirelles or the photographer Sebastiao Salgado, rich in both human and professional qualities. In fact, all three of them are related to Sao Paulo. The first two were born in that city and Salgado studied economics at the university there.
Escobar was [...]

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“Well, some countries seem to be able to bomb others whenever they feel like it.”

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Mike Booth

This video is The Real News Network’s Pepe Escobar commenting on the Israeli bombing of Syria on September 6 of last year, an event which went uninvestigated by the mainstream Western media.

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Americans Victims of Pentagon Media PSYOPS

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Mike Booth

I’m Aghast But Not Surprised
In a bombshell article published yesterday in the NY Times, entitled “Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand,” investigative journalist David Barstow reveals a continuing Pentagon psychological operations (PSYOP) maneuver to disinform the American public through the manipulation of retired senior military [...]

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U.S. Shows Extreme Generosity with Refugees… from Justice

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Mike Booth

Plum Jobs Go to Coalition Collaborators
It has been heart warming to see the generosity with which the United States government, universities and businesses are treating Tony Blair, ex-prime minister of the U.K., and José María Aznar, ex-president of Spain. Both of these distinguished elder statesmen were named to prestigious professorships at American universities, and [...]

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I’d Like You to Meet Lewis Lapham

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Mike Booth

I’ve been an unconditional admirer of Lewis Lapham ever since I discovered Harper’s Magazine many years ago. Lapham was the editor of Harper’s for 30 years, from 1976 to 2006. His current title is “editor emeritus,” which is not to say he’s retired. He still writes his regular Notebook feature for Harper’s and he’s embarked [...]

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The Ford Foundation and the CIA: Two-Headed Philanthropy – III/III

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Mike Booth

American academic, Joan Roelofs, in Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (State University of New York Press, 2003) argues that Ford and similar foundations play a key role in co-opting opposition movements:

While dissent from ruling class ideas is labeled ‘extremism’ and is isolated, individual dissenters [...]

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Iraq: Who Won the War?

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Mike Booth

This article in today’s Independent provides a nice summing up of what the U.S. and Britain have achieved with their war on Iraq.  Authors Raymond Whitaker and Stephen Foley have prepared a thorough and dispassionate report from an independent British point of view. It makes fascinating–and depressing–reading.  At the end of the piece they offer [...]

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Ford Foundation/CIA: Two-Headed Philanthropy – II/III

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Mike Booth

So when my conversation with the South American Gentleman turned to my old classmate, I asked him, “What’s Old Friend up to these days? Is he still at the Ford Foundation?”
“No,” said SAG, “he reached a very high position in the Ford Foundation, but then left them and went to work for a Washington [...]

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