Author: Kevin Barrett

by Kevin Barrett 6/30/2009 Douglas Rushkoff got the idea for his new book Life, Inc., after he was mugged in his own neighborhood – twice. The first time, it was a real-world mugging in the streets. Then when he wrote about it on-line, he suffered a second, virtual mugging by angry neighbors afraid his report would hurt their property values.…

from Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters : If, as the experts say, torture does not yield timely and accurate information, then why has the U.S. government been torturing so many people? U.S. Senator Carl Levin offers the most plausible answer: “The (CIA’s torture) techniques are based on tactics used by Chinese Communists against American soldiers…

As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed“The Desert Horned Viper lurks in sand, only eyes, nostrils and horns above the surface…Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds…six people have been killed and 13 poisoned…’People…

Jessica McBride makes her living teaching Journalistic Ethics. That didn’t stop her from ambush-interviewing me on behalf of Karl Rove and the Republican propaganda machine, who were looking for an academic whipping-boy to discourage professors from expressing 9/11 skepticism. At the time, Jessica’s husband, District Attorney Paul Bucher, was running for State Attorney General, and the Republicans wanted to make…

At the invitation of the Spanish court investigating U.S. war crimes, William Pepper wrote an extensive brief on why they should target top Bush officials, not just their lawyers. It appears they have taken his advice–get ready for Nuremburg II, which, Pepper told me, will be far more important than Nuremburg I. Learn about the impending prosecution of the Bush…

Richard Falk (see yesterday’s post) has a sweet, gentle, reasonable, yet uncompromising way of telling the hard truths. Despite, or maybe because of, his sweet reasonableness, Dr. Falk has been reviled by such hardcore Zionists as Alan “torture is wonderful” Dershowitz, who called him such names as: € “supposedly impartial”€ “notorious crackpot”€ “rants”€ “fodder for conspiracy nuts all over the…

Tuesday, June 2nd, 9 – 10 a.m. Pacific/noon – 1 pm Eastern, http://www.NoLiesRadio.org: I will be interviewing Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, author or co-author of 20 books, and United Nations Special Human Rights Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories. In 2004 Richard Falk wrote the rip-roaring introduction to David Ray Griffin‘s The New Pearl Harbor,…

I usually don’t get along well with dead presidents (call me financially challenged) but JFK decided to make an exception for my upcoming London talk with Niels Harrit. Watch the great new trailer and listen to the amazing presidential endorsement here. Neils Harrit, in case you missed the biggest story of the year, is the lead author of the new…

Glen Yeadon, author of The Nazi Hydra in America, will be my guest tomorrow on Fair and Balanced. Tune in 9-10 a.m. Pacific (12-1 pm Eastern), NoLiesRadio.org. “The Nazi Hydra was conceived to fill a gap in the literature by providing a detailed overview of the influence of fascism within the United States. The intent and motivation for such a…

Tonight on Truth Jihad Radio, 5-7 pm Central, http://www.americanfreedomradio.com (to be archived here) I’ll start out interviewing Micheal Berger, co-writer/producer of the hot new film Life on the Edge of a Bubble: Blowing the American Dream. (Carol Brouillet’s review here). Michael Berger also produced Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic, an excellent film about the destruction of the World…