MEDIA ROOTS — Five years ago, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling courageously asserted USA’s military generals were failing in their duty to provide policymakers with candid appraisals of war. Unfortunately, generalship has only deteriorated since then. Today, Pentagon leaders lie directly through euphemism, omission, and talk of progress. Euphemism Generals euphemize in order to shape public discourse in their favor and … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Former Air America radio show host Rachel Maddow has, by now, become MSNBC’s de facto ‘liberal watch dog,’ long since the network kicked Keith Olbermann to the curb and told Cenk Uyger that Washington ‘doesn’t like his tone.’ In a world where the Republican propaganda machine has been able to characterize a network part-owned by software giant … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — If one looks at a map of the Middle East’s US foreign policy points of interest over the last decade, it’s obvious the objectives stated in the neo-con think tank Project for a New American Century (PNAC)’s 2001 foreign policy prescription, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, have been carried out. One by one, the US has strategically taken out … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Welcome to the future of combat: robot wars. Take official numbers of troop withdrawal with a grain of salt, because their work is now being done by unmanned predator drones and private mercenary armies (which make up at least half of the US military presence abroad). Although the use of predator drones is not a new … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — As scores of political prisoners languish in U.S. prisons and solitary confinement and California prisoners wage hunger strikes to call attention to inhumane conditions inside the prison-industrial complex, Bradley Manning, held by the U.S. military, ranks among the most high profile and highly targeted by the U.S. government. Various reports have directly confirmed Manning has endured cruel and … Read More
