Another fine example of how academia seems joined at the hip to US tyranny. Members of the American Psychological Association have reportedly been active in the shaping of and participating in the interrogation of the prisoners of America’s “war on terror.”
Last week, The New York Times reported that the Pentagon would try to use only [...]
Continue Reading June 16th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Defense Tech has dug up a piece of CIA history, namely the making of covert propaganda movies blending with contemporary culture. Such was the case with the animated 1955 version of “Animal Farm” for instance. The rights to the story were acquired and the script was edited to be more in line with the official [...]
Continue Reading March 12th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Noam Chomsky debated Alan Dershowitz at Harvard yesterday. Obviously, Dershowitz soon regressed to shouting and personal abuse. Some thoughts over at Metafilter. Even if one agrees with Dershowitz, no one can say that his style of debate is either eloquent nor decisive. Better luck in the jeering court room.
I’d still like to see Finkelstein debate [...]
Continue Reading November 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
NYT - Are you saying that America represents the ideal of democracy?
Jean Baudrillard: No, the simulation of power.
At 76, you are still pushing your famous theory about “simulation” and the “simulacrum,” which maintains that media images have become more convincing and real than reality.
Jean Baudrillard: All of our values are simulated. What is freedom? We [...]
Continue Reading November 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
I thought at first I would dismiss this out of hand, but then I got thinking. Perhaps it’s not as simplistic as Chavez’s presentation and some news sources make it out to be.
BBC - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged families not to mark Halloween, calling it a US custom alien to the South American [...]
Continue Reading November 2nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Sometimes you need a reality based story to counter the propaganda being unwittingly peddled by many of the corporate and government players. It turns out that Iran has a few tweaks of liberty and democracy that even most western nation states cannot claim.
Independent via Boing Boing - (3) More than 3,600 Iranians have been killed [...]
Continue Reading October 31st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Believe it or not but there are people dealing with the science of the matter. Hidden far behind the headlines and propaganda pieces of the corporate media and governments. Here is a particularly apt summary of some of the work by the New York Book Review.
Suicide bombing is increasingly becoming the weapon of choice for [...]
Continue Reading September 13th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The controversy is brewing before anyone has even seen them.
Slow to awaken after the 9/11 attacks, Hollywood has finally come around to contributing what it can in the War on Terror: namely, glossy, star-studded movies that sympathize with the enemy.
Hard to believe? Here’s the pitch: with box-office numbers trending down, studio executives are suddenly greenlighting [...]
Continue Reading August 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Not so surprising. This is but one of the hidden tolls of armed conflicts that are usually not debated as the drums of war start to beat.
A survey of troops returning from the Iraq war found 30 percent had developed mental health problems three to four months after coming home, the Army’s surgeon general said [...]
Continue Reading July 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues at the University of Western Australia published a study in the March issue of Psychological Science, detailing how Iraq war stories played tricks on the mind. The study, based on 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, is a quite fascinating account of how beliefs and memories are [...]
Continue Reading March 15th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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