Political Deception Links
Criminal StateCriminal State provides the tools required to restore informed choice and to protect freedom from those who deceive and manipulate in order to dominate. Today’s wars are catalyzed with false beliefs, manipulated impressions and half-truths. On that battlefield (the shared field of consciousness), the power of association is often deployed as a weapon — either to accredit or to discredit. In either case, the goal is the same: to influence behavior inconsistent with the real facts. Thus the first book in the Criminal State series is titled Guilt By Association — How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War. The only modern aspect of this manipulation is the technological means with which to wage war by way of deceit on a global scale. Criminal State provides the “tools of perception” so that you can see for yourself “the people in between” — those between you and the facts. With those tools, you will see who is complicit in the criminality chronicled in this account. And you will understand why those responsible can only operate with impunity so long as their operations remain non-transparent. We invite you to make history by using these tools to help expose and counter the duplicity that has shaped history to date ...
John PilgerJohn Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958. He regards eye-witness as the essence of good journalism. He has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter, beginning with the Vietnam war in 1967. He is an impassioned critic of foreign military and economic adventures by Western governments. "It is too easy," he says, "for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our' interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as always benign when the opposite is usually true. It's the journalist's job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society." Noam Chomsky wrote: "John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration " ...
Paul Craig RobertsPaul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice ...
Global ResearchThe Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research organization and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists. The Global Research website was established on the 9th of September 2001, two days before the tragic events of September 11. Since September 2001, we have established an extensive archive of news articles, in-depth reports and analysis on issues which are barely covered by the mainstream media. In an era of media disinformation, our focus has essentially been to center on the "unspoken truth" ...
