Modern Censorship in Corporate Media

Staff / Truthdig Sep 10, 2011 Project Censored, a media research program founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, has for a long time drawn attention to stories that the mainstream media for one reason or another censor or ignore. The project will publish its 2012 edition this month, highlighting the most censored stories in the last year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

China’s Top Gun

Staff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2011 The Chinese air force is drawing snickers after part of a video of military maneuvers broadcast on Chinese state television turned out to be not images of the country’s new stealth fighter but scenes from the American movie "Top Gun." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pakistan Papers Publish Faux WikiLeaks

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2010 An already fraught relationship between India and Pakistan got a bit more taut after a lapse of journalistic responsibility led several leading Pakistani papers to publish fabricated WikiLeaks cables that more resembled anti-Indian propaganda than diplomatic correspondence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Declassified: Bush’s Iraq Scheming Began in 2001

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2010 The National Security Archive has obtained documents confirming and expanding on what we already knew: The Bush administration was determined to invade and occupy Iraq whether there was justification or not. (continued) Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Fox News: Home for Wayward Analysts

Staff / Truthdig Sep 2, 2010 To all pundits, politicians and journalists who got everything wrong about the Iraq War, fear not. You may have no credibility, but Fox News is your refuge and your benefactor. As Media Matters documents, the propaganda network has only added to its collection of mendacious war boosters since helping to launch the Iraq disaster. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Said What?

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2010 Sound the alarm: The Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition exam taken by high school students across the U.S. uses a quotation from the late Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said. Some Jewish students are complaining that use of the Said material politicizes the test. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Taliban’s Glossy New Front in the Battle for Hearts and Minds

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Apr 3, 2010 It's sleek, it's glossy, it's in eloquent Arabic, Pashto and Dari, and it pours derision on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan; it is the brand new propaganda wing of the Taliban: not just Internet video of attacks on the Western armies in Helmand and Kandahar, but professionally produced magazines.It's sleek, it's glossy, it's in eloquent Arabic, Pashto and Dari, and it pours derision on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan; it is the brand new propaganda wing of the Taliban. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Georgia Wags the Dog

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2010 Call it reckless and/or call it propaganda: A Georgian newscast used footage of Russian troops crossing Georgia's borders in 2008 to present a "simulation" of possible events, including Russian tanks en route to the capital and the killing of the nation's president. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rights Groups Give FIFA a Yellow Card

Staff / Truthdig Nov 27, 2009 Zimbabwean human rights groups have called out soccer's international governing body for handing Robert Mugabe, the country's notorious leader, a "propaganda coup" when he was permitted to hold up the World Cup trophy while it made its way through the African continent. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

American News Ticker Goes Dark in Havana

Staff / Truthdig Jul 28, 2009 After vexing Cuban officials (and citizens, no doubt) for three years, a U.S. government-sponsored electronic billboard that featured news and information blips tailored for a Cuban audience from an American-friendly angle has been switched off in the interest of changing the diplomatic tone between the two countries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Protecting the Homeland From Homeland Security

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2009 As previously reported on Truthdig, there's a lot going on in Homeland Security that doesn't make it onto the reality show of the same name. The Center for Investigative Reporting's G.W. Schulz continues to dig into the department's unsavory bits, including an immigration officer who was arrested for allegedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl in Rio while there on official business. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Aldous Huxley, 1958: ‘Brave New World’ Just Around the Corner

Staff / Truthdig Dec 10, 2008 It's always a little spooky and a little funny to listen to a person from the past predict a future that may have already come to pass. In this clip from 50 years ago, Mike Wallace interviews "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, and while some of what Huxley says sounds goofy, some sounds uncomfortably familiar. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )