News and History

Is John Zogby the most unbiased name in socio-political polling, or is he merely selling his services to promote his clients' agendas?

The private Saudi flight that George W. Bush doesn't admit existed.

Reconstructing the chaotic morning of 9/11 from NORAD's control room audio tapes -- and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up.

By Michael Bronner, Vanity Fair, August 2006

How school textbooks go from the publisher to your child's classroom.

At what point does providing comforts to soldiers turn into excessive materialism -- and what effect does that have on "winning hearts and minds"?

The New York Times published an article on Al Qaeda's threats against the United States on September 9, 2001 -- then removed all traces of it from their archives after September 11. Read it here.

The following is the prepared text of the speech Bill Moyers gave June 3, 2005 at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C.

Three years ago, I was a Marine Corps captain on the Iraqi/Kuwaiti border, participating in the invasion of Iraq. Awestruck, I heard our howitzers thunder and watched artillery rockets rise into the night sky and streak toward Iraq -- their light bathing the desert moonscape like giant arc welders.

(Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)

by H. Michael Sweeney

Built upon Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin, the following may be useful to the initiate in the world of dealing with veiled and half-truth, lies, and suppression of truth when serious crimes are studied in public forums.

Liberal? Conservative? It's not about ideology. The real battle is over the proper role of journalism.

How government protects big media -- and shuts out upstarts like me

by Ted Turner

A top-secret British government document with meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002, summarizing the Bush Administration's desire for war with Iraq and the British government wondering how to justify it.

Over the past few years, Party Builders Associates has aided countless individuals and groups to form vanguard parties intelligently tailored to their own needs. These people are now leading creative, happy lives fighting one another. What we've done for others, we can do for you.

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Curt Vendel is a normal guy. Mostly. By day, he works as a computer engineering consultant for Manhattan investment banks. He has a wife. He has a dog named Gizmo. Then there's his other life. He estimates he spends about $15,000 a year on Atari, and when he starts talking about the company his dark brown eyes can wander a bit, as if fixed on a higher purpose. His calling -- preserving Atari's history -- might sound odd, or funny, or just a tad obsessive. Who cares about Atari anymore anyway?

As president, will George W. Bush prove himself to be a compassionate conservative or master of whatever it takes to win?

by David Pacheco

Osama and I go way back. Way, way back. Back even before the last time he hated the U.S. before they trained him and gave him money and then he liked them and now he hates them again. We've never been particularly close, mostly because of the religious differences (he's an Extreme Fundamentalist Muslim, whereas I think women are human beings). But still, he calls me every time he's in town, we hang.

by Isaac Asimov

I received a letter the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important.

Stuff That Happened from 1001 C.E. to 2000 C.E.

by Roger M. Wilcox