Truth Emergency and Media Reform By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff In the United States today, the rift between reality and reporting has reached its end. There is no longer a mere credibility gap, but rather a literal Truth Emergency. Americans cannot access the truth about the issues that most impact their lives by relying on the mainstream corporate media.  A Truth Emergency is a culmination of the failu ...

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This March shocking new details have been revealed about George W. Bush and his legal council John Yoo’s memos outlining the destruction of the United States Republic. The memos laid the foundation for the President to order the military to wage war against the US population and to rewrite of the US Constitution. Constitutional scholar Michael Ratner describes in an interview that what Bush and his cronies ...

As the old Bush policies continue to fail and corruption in the Mexican police department reigns, we are stuck with a problem and a predicament from hell. With headless corpses being found all along the border and entire towns under siege, it is only a matter of time before this problem is actually in our backyard. Immigration is a touchy subject and many politicians will not take a stance because of it. In ...

Here are some stories currently under review at Media Freedom Foundation and Project Censored as compiled by the Director, Dr. Peter Phillips. These are validated independent news stories ignored, distorted, or undercovered by the corporate mainstream media. This is part of a new and ongoing role Project Censored is playing in reporting valid news, vetted by college and university students and professors, a ...

I always find it amusing when people, correction, uninformed people get up in arms over a news story that they really don’t have a clue about. I love it when someone reads a headline and simply guesses what the story is about, or only watches one news channel and therefore only gets one slanted side. This is particularly amusing in the case of AIG. Most people have no clue about AIG, not only pertaining to ...

       More people are killed or seriously injured in U.S. hospitals annually than from airline and automobile accidents combined. An estimated 1.3 million people a year receive some kind of injury related to treatment at hospitals, and 180,000 of those people die.      About half of those deaths – 80,000 to 90,000 of them – are preventable, the results of negligence, such as prescribing the wrong medicine, ...

A report conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency casts doubt over whether Israel will survive as a country beyond the next twenty years.  The CIA expects an inexorable movement away from the colonial Apartheid state and a return of Palestinian refugees. The Report expects that Zionists in the millions will emigrate from Israel to the United States, Europe and Russia.  The Report says as Americans learn ...

Iraq by the numbers...OverviewMore SpecificsOne million dead Iraqis, four million refugees, almost 5,000 US soldiers dead and another 35,000 wounded Americans with hundreds of thousands applying for VA benefits...a bankrupt economy and a $3.2 trillion war. Blame the new guy. Mission Accomplished. Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, recently remarked upon former Vice President Dick ...