Apr 7, 2026 | WAR: By Design
Major news outlets transformed a routine military rescue into a Hollywood-style narrative using identical dramatic language and synchronized messaging from anonymous government sources.
Apr 6, 2026 | WAR: By Design
Planet Labs implements indefinite embargo on Middle East satellite imagery following White House pressure, blocking independent verification of war damage.
Feb 25, 2015 | Black Technology, WAR: By Design
An unnamed scientific researcher walks out to her mailbox, shuffles through some bills and advertisements, and pulls out an envelope containing a CD of pictures from a recent scientific conference the researcher had attended in Houston. Excited – though maybe a bit...
Feb 13, 2015 | WAR: By Design
Israel’s “Smart” Weapons Kill Sabah Abu Jayab, known to her family and friends as Um Ahmad, walked through her home pointing out everything that had to be replaced after Israel’s 2014 assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. “This is all new,” Um Ahmad, a...
Jan 31, 2015 | News, WAR: By Design
Israeli Strikes on UN Forces: A Pattern of Lethal Attacks On January 28, 2015, Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, taking the life of 36-year-old Spanish peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria served with the United Nations...
Oct 3, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, News, WAR: By Design
How Western Governments Used Graphic Videos to Build Support for Military Action In the fall of 2014, a wave of alleged execution videos attributed to the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as IS or ISIL) dominated global headlines. These recordings, depicting masked...
Sep 27, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, News, WAR: By Design
How Western-Backed Regime Change in Libya Set the Stage The militant organization known as the Islamic State, previously called Al-Qaeda in Iraq and later rebranded under its current name, represents one of the most brutal armed groups in modern history. Its members...
Sep 21, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Abuses of Power, Video, WAR: By Design
Few developments in domestic law enforcement should alarm Americans more than the quiet emergence of private military-style contractors conducting armed raids on U.S. soil. In 2014, two largely overlooked incidents in California signaled a troubling new chapter in the...
Jul 15, 2014 | Government Agenda, WAR: By Design
Gaza (along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem) is occupied Palestinian territory under international law, determined by the vast majority of the world, as well as the highest court in the world, the UN’s International Court of Justice. Gaza cannot commit...
Jul 12, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, WAR: By Design
How America’s Police Became a Domestic Army Across the United States, local law enforcement agencies have undergone a dramatic transformation — acquiring battlefield weapons, adopting military tactics, and deploying heavily armed units against civilian...
Jul 2, 2014 | Globalist Corporations, News, WAR: By Design
In 2007, weeks before Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Nisour Square in Baghdad, the State Department launched an investigation into the private military contractor’s operations in Iraq. The inquiry was cut short under extraordinary...
May 14, 2014 | Globalist Corporations, Video, WAR: By Design
War For those who are completely new to the Palantir Platform or could simply use a refresher, this talk will start from scratch and provide a broad overview of Palantir’s origins and mission. A live demonstration of the product will help to familiarize...
Apr 9, 2014 | Government Agenda, News, Video, WAR: By Design
In early 2014, as political turmoil engulfed Ukraine following the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, videos surfaced online showing unidentified armed men operating in the eastern city of Donetsk. The footage sparked heated debate about who these individuals...
Dec 7, 2013 | WAR: By Design
Deadly Attack on Yemen’s Military Headquarters In December 2013, a coordinated assault on Yemen’s Ministry of Defense compound in Sanaa killed more than 50 people, including foreign medical workers. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed...
Oct 9, 2013 | WAR: By Design
In 2013, families of Navy SEAL Team 6 members killed in a 2011 helicopter crash in Afghanistan succeeded in pressuring Congress to launch an official investigation into the incident. The crash, which killed 30 Americans on August 6, 2011, represented the single...
Jun 17, 2013 | WAR: By Design
If twitter is any gauge, a lot of people think this article in Wired about General Keith Alexander is just all kinds of kewl: General Keith Alexander, a man few even in Washington would likely recognize. Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come...
Jan 14, 2013 | Activism, WAR: By Design
“If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries. “As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80 percent of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families.
Nov 19, 2012 | News, WAR: By Design
A short interview broadcast by CNN late last week featuring two participants – a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli within range of the rocket attacks – did not follow the usual script. For once, a media outlet dropped its role as gatekeeper, there to mediate and...
Nov 8, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
“Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record — presented with minimal gloss — of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza (dubbed ‘Operation Cast Lead’) by the Israeli military. Filmed by several Palestinian...
Nov 8, 2012 | Government Agenda, WAR: By Design
When President Obama first entered office, unmanned aerial strikes happened sporadically — perhaps once every couple of weeks. By 2012, these operations had become the backbone of American counterterrorism policy worldwide. The administration systematized lethal drone...
Nov 8, 2012 | WAR: By Design
A look at life under occupation. Gaza has the look of a Third World country, with pockets of wealth surrounded by hideous poverty. It is not, however, undeveloped. Rather it is “de-developed,” and very systematically so, to borrow the term from Sara Roy,...
Nov 8, 2012 | WAR: By Design
A History of Blame and Deflection In September 2012, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that corruption in his government had reached a level “not ever before seen in Afghanistan.” He claimed that under the Soviet...
Oct 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
The September 11, 2012 attack on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens, became one of the most contentious national security controversies of the Obama era. Beyond the initial debate over what triggered...
Oct 24, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
http://youtu.be/MMirTxSlhBA Greenwald is that increasingly rare commodity in the US, a true journalist. I don’t agree with him on a lot of things, but he is definitely correct here in debunking the hogwash about “humanitarian” wars. Nobody goes to...
Oct 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, WAR: By Design
Romney Endorsed Obama’s Drone Strategy During the 2012 Foreign Policy Debate During the October 2012 foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney essentially gave his stamp of approval to President Obama’s use of unmanned aerial strikes. Regardless of which...
