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“They” say, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” Want to bet? Check out all the ways the government has been hiding the truth from you.
Fourteen years ago, after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the United States government initiated its “war on terror,” with the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001, which expanded into Pakistan, and of Iraq in 2003. While the corporate media has occasionally acknowledged the 6,800 American soldiers, and the 7,000 contractors who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, they consistently ignore Iraqi and Afghani deaths, which exceed one million, giving the western public no context to understand the attacks lead by the Islamic State in Syria and Levant (ISIL).
According to a study from Facebook, the world is actually smaller than we think. Contrary to the century old theory of degrees of separation between any two people on the planet.
Two Romanian cartoonists wish to bring attention to touchy subjects. They have used their unique style of illustration to depict the insanities of modern-day society.
Since President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, an estimated 2,464 people have been killed by drone strikes targeted outside of the United States’ declared war zones; this figure was posted in February 2015 by Jack Serle and the team at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who maintain a database of all known strikes—based on fieldwork, media reports, and leaked documents—which provides a clearer picture of the scale and impact of the US drone program than the episodic reporting provided by corporate media.
New research has found, for the first time, a scientific solution that enables future internet infrastructure to become completely open and programmable while carrying internet traffic at the speed of light.
Parents may now be relieved that Mattel is introducing new Barbie dolls with different body types, hairstyles and colours, eye colour, in response to decades of criticism of the old impossible body type Barbie inflicted on young girls as beautiful.
The energy in these mantras helps to put our intentions out into the world, bringing them back to us. Each word carries a specific vibration. These vibrations, coupled with clear intention and consistent repetition, will help anchor your ideas and desires into physical form.
Science is proving how deeply connected we as human beings are to music. The author weighs in on the issue.
18-year-old Monntel West’s life might very well be changed now that a video of West playing the piano has gone viral. Playing at a piano in a mall in Lansing Michigan, West didn’t realize he was being videotaped.
The Department of Defense have involved themselves with the production of Hollywood films since shortly after World War Two. The Pentagon keeps secret the changes it makes, leaving it open to accusations that it’s waging a pernicious PR campaign to recruit TV-addict kids and rewrite history.
X-Files creator Chris Carter said Edward Snowden and issues like the 9/11 conspiracy, war in the Middle East, NSA spying, chem-trails etc will be fair game in the new revival of the show.
Bowie’s ideas constantly pushed boundaries of creativity, sexuality, and custom. Since the news of his death was posted on his Facebook page, there has been an outpouring of love from Bowie’s friends and fans.
Mass surveillance has “badly shaken writers’ faith that democratic governments will respect their rights to privacy and freedom of expression,” according to a January 2015 PEN America report based on the responses of 772 writers from fifty countries. Reporting for Common Dreams, Lauren McCauley covered not only the PEN America report, but also a July 2014 report by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch indicating that US journalists and lawyers increasingly avoid work on potentially controversial topics due to fear of government spying.
Russell Brand looks at the new powers brought in by David Cameron to supposedly aid in counter terrorism, but instead, turns us all into terror suspects.
