Former Antiterror Officials Find Industry Pays Better: “Dozens of members of the Bush administration’s domestic security team, assembled after the 2001 terrorist attacks, are now collecting bigger paychecks in different roles: working on behalf of companies that sell domestic security products, many directly to the federal agencies the officials once helped run.” (New York Times )

“Long before celluloid and pixels were invented, Plato understood that “those who tell the stories also rule.”…

Now, However, we are witnessing a mounting resistance, particularly from Asia and the Muslim world, to the American media’s libertarian and secular messages.

There is also resistance to the mere fact of America’s overwhelming cultural dominance… ” (Internatlional Herald Tribune op-ed)