Dan Alba

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by Dan Alba (libertarian)

AP: Tobacco-tax plunder is a good idea
Published: March 31, 2009
Just another case of politicians and their corporate cronies 'rigging the apparatus' for a predictable financial surge in their areas of industry and war-making. And AP is eager to abet.

Ahistorical Parodists
Published: March 12, 2009
AP on the US-Iran row

The Obama 'Stimulus' and the 'Do Nothing' Hoover
Published: February 13, 2009
The AP Whopper of the Week

AP: Maybe Israel is targeting women, children and mosques; but ...
Published: January 4, 2009
The Associated Press and those 'Secondary Explosions'!

Famous Last Contributions of an AP Editor
Published: December 30, 2008
Or, Why The Associated Press and the 'Mainstream Media' Are Largely Responsible for the Theft of U.S. Tax Dollars to Subsidize Criminal U.S. and Israeli Warfare-Statism

Aristocratic Putsch
Published: December 21, 2008
The Propaganda Ministers have succeeded: the takeover may be irreversible; the cancer, irremovable.

MSM: 'Hooray! Obama to be noble tyrant, like past Dear Leaders!'
Published: November 12, 2008
AP Prepares the Chalice As MSM Usher the Next Despot to the Altar

Advocating Piracy
Published: October 27, 2008
The Role of Big Media in the Plunder

AP on Iraq: News Reports or Editorials?
Published: September 25, 2008
Is it just a coincidence that the more difficult the facts are for U.S. officials to concede, the less likely they are to be contextualized?

Corporate News Media 'Cover' Police-Statism at the RNC
Published: September 2, 2008
Thereby 'Covering' Themselves

'Russia v. Georgia' and the Media Spin Machine
Published: August 12, 2008
Right on cue, the neocons' back-pocket corporate media are rolling out the lies.

Another Huge Reason Why Corporate Media Are Criminally Complicit
Published: August 9, 2008
They run interference while the government mugs and rapes you.

UPI has officially reserved a spot in The Dock
Published: August 9, 2008
Though not the first instance of journalistic fraud by the once-lionized news service, this is perhaps the most dangerous yet.

Think Tanks to Holding Tanks, Board Rooms to Gallows: Part 3
Published: July 28, 2008
A Layman's Case against the Propaganda Ministry

Think Tanks to Holding Tanks, Board Rooms to Gallows: Part 2
Published: July 28, 2008
A Layman's Case against the Propaganda Ministry

Think Tanks to Holding Tanks, Board Rooms to Gallows
Published: July 28, 2008
A Layman's Case against the Propaganda Ministry

This Week in Apocalyptic Propaganda
Published: June 3, 2008
The latest chapter in self-destructive neocon hypocrisy has the neocons’ favorite U.S.-designated terrorist group propagating another elaborate pretext for further aggression against Iran.

When Corporate Media Were Imperial Shills, or: Now and Always
Published: April 23, 2008
This constitutional Republic is almost but a memory. It is urgent that we expose and correct the dangerous disinfo everywhere it surfaces; state-worshiping media certainly won't do it for us.

This Week in Apartheid Propaganda
Published: April 20, 2008
Your tax dollars hard at work, subsidizing death and tyranny for Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land.

Petraeus' Self-Demotion
Published: April 11, 2008
Courtesy of Ron Paul, of course.

Video: 'The High Tide'
Published: March 18, 2008
A Brilliant 3-D Animation of Ron Paul and His Message of Liberty

Associated Propaganda
Published: March 12, 2008
A Commentary on State-Worshiping News Agency Reports

Fig Leaves and Fuhrers
Published: March 4, 2008
Why the 'Neocon Empire' Hasn't Met the Fate of the Third Reich---Yet

The Irony of 'Appeasement'
Published: February 23, 2008
Major Media Still Abetting Terrorism, Promoting Aggression against Iran

Another Defense of Ron Paul
Published: January 23, 2008
In Response to 'Antiwar "Lefts" embrace ultra-right Republican candidate Ron Paul,' and Similar Anti-Paul Propaganda

John McCain: Enemy of Liberty (and its crew)
Published: January 20, 2008
Is the GOP on the verge of nominating another traitor?

'NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A Racist'
Published: January 13, 2008
Another anti-Paul smear-hoax is now on its last leg --- if it wasn't already.

Ron Paul vs. FOX Debate Fraud
Published: January 13, 2008
Another Look

Conjecture, Fallacy, Ignorance, and the Internet
Published: January 4, 2008
How Ron Paul's Critics Feign Opposition to His Message of Freedom, Prosperity, and Peace — and Why It's Backfiring on Them

Ron Paul Fraud-Smashing, Made Easy
Published: December 21, 2007
Part I: Huckabee Fascism

Should Warmongering Corporate Media Be 'Wiped Off the Map'?
Published: December 6, 2007
Until they begin to act responsibly and come clean with their readers, corporate media are deserving of the same fate they would have visited upon those they help to fraudulently demonize and wage war upon.

John McCain Is Terrified of Ron Paul
Published: November 29, 2007
Ron Paul's opponents within the ever-shrinking, pro-war, GOP base are intimidated by the Ron Paul campaign. During last night's CNN/YouTube debate it was John McCain's turn to embody that distinction.

Ron Paul vs. Flat Earthers (Again)
Published: November 21, 2007
Once the superficial layers of ad hominem and guilt-by-association have been melted, all becomes clear: Ron Paul and his supporters are being fraudulently smeared simply because their constitutional message of liberty, prosperity, and peace are impossible to defeat.

Someone Like Ron Paul
Published: November 13, 2007
In a political environment where the more strictly a public servant fulfills his oath of office the more radical he is, very few honest men persevere and even fewer excel. Among them, one man stands alone: Ron Paul.

The Truman Show Campaign (Another Commentary on Media 'Coverage' of Ron Paul)
Published: November 9, 2007
Media manipulation of public perception in political matters is certainly nothing new; but in the case of the Ron Paul campaign, it has never been so easy to read and expose.

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