The Situation In Syria Is NOT Complicated — Here’s What You Need To Know

Caitlin Johnstone, April 10, 2017

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

The popular quote above has at times been attributed to Henry Ford, though it’s most likely a paraphrase of his actual words authored by Congressman Charles G. Binderup in 1938. In any case, it points to the self-evident fact that our economic system is so vastly complex that there are multiple contradictory schools of thought on how it works and how best to approach it. It’s so vastly complex that the few people who understand it are able to manipulate it to their advantage, and to the disadvantage of the overwhelming majority of people who don’t. There are a lot of shadows in all that complexity for the mechanisms of deception and exploitation to hide, and that’s exactly what happens; people get ripped off by a system they don’t understand....

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Beneath All This Surveillance Controversy Is The Unexamined Notion Of American Supremacy

Caitlin Johnstone/Newslogue/April 7, 2017

"This is all made possible by the unquestioned notion that it’s both acceptable and necessary to surveil other countries, even at the expense of American democracy. This notion of American supremacy, that it’s okay for America to do stuff like this but not other countries, really needs to be examined because it’s hurting Americans worst of all."

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Another Dangerous Rush to Judgement in Syria

ConsortiumNews/April 5, 2017

"With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday’s poison-gas deaths in a rebel-held area of northern Syria, the mainstream U.S. news media once more reveals itself to be a threat to responsible journalism and to the future of humanity. Again, we see the troubling pattern of verdict first, investigation later, even when that behavior can lead to a dangerous war escalation and many more deaths."

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. 

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