The Gulf War was the best managed war in history, from a PR perspective. Interestingly, though an unknown number of Iraqis were killed, buried in trenches and bombed, mostly, no images escaped to US television. At the same time, many US 'smart weapons' appear to have been virtually worthless despite wartime claims of A+ accuracy.
This article also brings to mind an account in the latest Harper's by a Gulf verteran Marine sniper who describes a complete clusterfuck as far as coordination and organization go, resulting in friendly fire casualties, which the military naturally minimized (i.e. lied about).

Bodies? What Bodies?

If at first you don't succeed, ...

The plan, known as eDNA, called for developing a new
version of the Internet that would include enclaves where
it would be impossible to be anonymous while using the
network. The technology would have divided the Internet
into secure "public network highways," where a computer
user would have needed to be identified, and "private
network alleyways," which would not have required
identification.

Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet

Fuck horatio alger, get yourself a rich daddy.

The Sons Also Rise

- Broke an exclusive story, “The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire” linking the CIA to Halliburton’s Brown and Root and from there to documented drug smuggling across Russia and the Far East.

- Four years of groundbreaking coverage on the role of drug cash in supporting the US economy.

- Two plus years of coverage of the CIA’s involvement in the Colombian drug trade, Plan Colombia, and the preparations for a war in Colombia to control both the drug trade and oil reserves on rebel-held territory. Heavy reportage connecting CIA and US contractors like DynCorp to criminal activities and drugs.

From The Wilderness Publications

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone makes milk cheaper by causing cows to pump out more of the stuff, and brings in lots of money for Monsanto. It also induces very elevated levels of IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor-1) which is a powerful tumor growth promoter. Only one test of safety was ever done, and the FDA will not allow anyone to see the raw data for peer review. Cheaper milk also means more small dairy farms go out of business. You won't find this out from Fox News, who is now suing the reporters who uncovered the story to keep them from INDEPENDANTLY publishing their findings. Find the full story of food industry business-as-usual here....

PR Watch: Monsanto and Fox: Partners in Censorship

] Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the
] time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they
] haggle over the price. Marxists think we should be bossed
] by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by
] businessmen. Feminists don't care which form bossing
] takes so long as the bosses are women. Clearly these
] ideology-mongers have serious differences over how to
] divvy up the spoils of power. Just as clearly, none of
] them have any objection to power as such and all of them
] want to keep us working.

The Abolition of Work--Bob Black

The FAA, NORAD and the military have cooperative procedures by which fighter jets automatically intercept commercial aircraft under emergency conditions. These procedures were not followed.
...
U.S. air safety and air defense emergency systems are activated in response to problems every day. On 9-11 they failed despite, not because of, the extreme nature of the emergency. This could only happen if individuals in high positions worked in a coordinated way to make them fail.

GUILTY FOR 9-11: BUSH, RUMSFELD, MYERS

Thanks flynn23:
Interesting analysis of news stories from 10 different media outlets. Passages are quoted from 1998 and 2002. All of these passages relate to the big lie that UN weapons inspectors were expelled from Iraq in 1998. It's a bold faced lie being propagated by the following culprits:

ABC News
NBC News
Associated Press, The
Los Angeles Times, The
National Public Radio
Cable News Network
USA Today
New York Times, The
Washington Post, The
Newsday

Not terribly shocking given the corporate media consolidation in the last decade (what are we down to now, like 4 or 5 major holding corporations?) but I've never seen it laid out in such a clear, concise before and after format.

Kill your television. Kill your radio. Free the internet.

History, recovered

] "[The Aquatic Ape Theory] points out that most of the "enigmatic" features of
] human physiology, though rare or even unique among land
] mammals, are common in aquatic ones. If we postulate that
] our earliest ancestors had found themselves living for a
] prolonged period in a flooded, semi-aquatic habitat, most
] of the unsolved problems become much easier to unravel. "

The Aquatic Ape Theory--Elaine Morgan

] "In childhood, a modern person travels an enormous
] distance between stone-age primitive creature and
] responsible contemporary citizen. When confronted with
] the awesome power of civilization whose first
] representatives are parents, teachers, priests (and,
] later on, police officers, legislators and bosses) the
] child faces, psychologically, the same situation as its
] tribal ancestors, namely, conform to the dictates of
] civilization or die. "

The Machine in our Heads--Glenn Parton