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The End of the War of Images on the American Public

juancole.com — The Bush administration set some of the rules, the US corporate media set others. The effect was to mask for many years from the US public the sheer horror of what happened there. Former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly stood before the camera and told baldfaced lies. There was no looting. There was no guerrilla war. There was no...

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  • poopsybythebay, on 02/27/2009, -0/+7I love Juan Cole--there is no one better on middle eastern affairs.
  • SteffenfromEU, on 02/27/2009, -0/+6I am happy to hear this. There are good starts for democracy is coming back!
    So i can only hope it will come out still a lot of hidden things Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney & co. did not like people would know because they wanted their wars. So about Sept. 11 should come out more too.
    Let's stop stupid wars and stop waste of huge amount of money, nature and live. Let's invest into own country and future! Yes we can!
    Best wishes, Steffen http://changeforbetterworld.blogspot.com/
  • biblebelter, on 02/27/2009, -0/+6good op-ed on budget transparency
  • JoeParanoid, on 02/27/2009, -0/+3They understood people don't reason, they fall for false analogies and images, which is what the anti-global warming arguments are based on. Only when things get dire and personal enough, do people break through the conditioning (and sometimes they simply attach a different narrative to explain their circumstances).
  • sarahlee, on 02/27/2009, -0/+3Agree. A must read - thank goddess for RSS feeds.
  • dtr300, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2You might also like Marc Lynch:

    http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/

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