Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.