Envalentonada por los resultados de las recientes elecciones, la derecha en Venezuela –tanto sus representantes autóctonos como los agentes del imperialismo que operan en ese país- ha profundizado una estrategia de lucha política que, en los hechos, colocó al gobierno chavista a la defensiva o, cuando menos, en un estado de alerta ante las amenazas [...]

Edward S. Herman (co-author with Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent’): All the problems of the propaganda media model we talked about in the book have grown worse; new media like Real News show potential but need funding for more investigative journalism

The taking of US diplomatic personnel hostage by radical Iranian activists and angry crowds in November of 1979, and then the backing for this action of the government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was profoundly illegal. I know some of the former hostages, and deeply sympathize with their trauma. Nothing justifies what was done to them.

And A Licence To Lie Is Hollywood’s Gift A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media.

Many have pointed out that Kathryn Bigelow’s film endorses torture. But why has such a film been made now?       Here is how, in a letter to the LA Times, Kathryn Bigelow justified Zero Dark Thirty’s depicting of the torture methods used by government agents to catch and kill Osama bin Laden:

Seven Easy, Onscreen Steps to Making U.S. Torture and Detention Policies Once Again Palatable On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s deeply flawed movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, opens nationwide. The filmmakers and distributors are [...]

¿Sabe usted en qué se parecen Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly y Julio Rodríguez? Los tres son periodistas, o personajes mediáticos, u opiniólogos. Esa es la más fácil de las semejanzas. Está claro también que los tres trabajan para los mainstream media, es decir, para medios propagandísticos de capitales corporativos y empresariales. Y, desde luego (¿de [...]

Un filme Norcoreano contra los países occidentales. Lo más sorprendente aparte de las ironías implícitas, es lo simple que es reflejar todos los males y perversiones que los supuestos “países desarrollados y democráticos” tienen. Cuando algo es cierto, es difícil llamarlo propaganda.

El candidato presidencial de los partidos de coalición de la oposición, Henrique Capriles, llevó a cabo un acto el 10 de junio para inscribir formalmente su candidatura en contra del presidente Hugo Chávez.  “Cientos de miles” de venezolanos – según Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) y The Miami Herald – desbordaron las calles del centro [...]

Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could. Today, at the Tu Du paediatrics hospital [...]