By Sharon Weinberger "The strategic communication problem is to make good news as entertaining as bad news," says a new report by the Defense Science Board, a senior-level Pentagon advisory panel that normally looks at science and technology issues. Though the panel has done other reports on strategic communication, this one is significant in that the panel reaches beyond the Pentagon ...

By JOANNE MARINER Restrictions of all sorts have multiplied in the heightened security environment of the last six-and-a-half years, so it should be no surprise that, around the world, legal restrictions on speech have tightened. Since 2001, there has been a clear trend toward prohibiting speech perceived as supporting terrorism, and toward barring the dissemination of materials--including books, videos, and other forms of written and graphic communication--that are believed ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MFa7ZKQWo[/youtube]  A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to speak out about their experiences as self-described "brutal occupiers of a disputed land." Producer: Sat ...

We Are Change Ireland attended the Training Day on the Lisbon Treaty on Jan 2008 in Dublin. This was organized by Irish MEP Kathy Sinnott. Danish MEP Jens-Peter Bonde exposes the lies and manipulations by the EU elites to hide the significance of the treaty by making it unreadable. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kr0Foq3CQE[/youtube]

Dana Gabriel A global transformation is being manifested through corporations, the media, entertainment, and the educational system. The social engineers and the agents of change wish to purge our children's beliefs, value system, their independence, and their individuality. They are being replaced with more global beliefs, universal values, and interdependence. Their fragile little minds are being molded and shifted into group-think, while parental authority and influence is being undermined. The United ...

Documentary about Sibel Edmonds' case called Kill The Messenger ("Une Femme à Abattre") premiered in France. The documentary focuses on both Ms. Edmonds's personal struggle to expose the criminality that she claims to have uncovered while at the FBI, and also the alleged 'secret' itself — the network of nuclear black-market, narcotics and illegal arms trafficking activities. [googlevideo]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1991080575212848283&q=Kill+the+Messenger&total=364&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0[/googlevideo] ..

Conyers Staffer Says They Are Choosing to Let Bush Continue Violating Laws By Donna Norton, Sonoma County PDA On January 25th, I had a telephone conversation (40 mins +) with a legislative assistant in Conyers' office regarding impeachment. He had obviously been well-instructed on how to express their current policy. Our conversation included both Bush and Cheney, and took some strange turns, but this is basically ...

Sunday Times: illegal bugging of Muslim MP - Wilson Doctrine breached ? Spy Blog The Sunday Times leads with an interesting scoop, involving two topics about which we have written about here on Spy Blog, namely the Wilson Doctrine executive administrative prohibition on tapping or bugging the communications of Members of Parliament, and the controversial attempt by the US government to extradite British Muslim IT technician Babar Ahmad ...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is reportedly eying a new political office -- president of Europe. Blair has been discussing the post of president of the council of the European Union, a post created by the revised E.U. treaty, The Guardian reported. The president is to be the permanent head of the council of ministers. French President Nicolas Sarkozy would like Blair to have the job, the report said. Blair's ...

Philip Giraldi Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned whistleblower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington’s highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Edmonds’s account is full of dates, places, and names. And if ...