Iran Revises Marie Colvin's Death; Syria's Media Cares About Censorship
It's been a big week of news for Russia, Iran, and Syria, which means their propaganda mills have been working overtime.
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It's been a big week of news for Russia, Iran, and Syria, which means their propaganda mills have been working overtime.
He just got finished with a drubbing from the right over Operation Fast and Furious and now it's the left's turn to attack U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
One of the most dubious revelations from the Stratfor document dump on WikiLeaks -- unfounded skepticism about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden's body -- is drawing the most attention in the media this week.
It's becoming difficult to keep track of the many complaints of election fraud following Vladimir Putin's overwhelming victory on Sunday in Russia's presidential election.
President Obama's pledge that the United States "will always have Israel's back" and will attack Iran if it develops a nuclear weapon reverberated across the world Monday.
Hollywood is obsessed with Chinese citizens pirating U.S. films, but do they know how often their films' posters are being ripped off?
WikiLeaks is trying to hang onto its dignity following its divorce from several mainstream media outlets by claiming it severed ties with those companies—not the other way around.
The race to prove who's more pro-Israel received a steroid injection this week with President Obama's speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday and today's visit to the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
From Cubans hawking cigar products to Egypt's corrupting state media to the vaunted penmanship of North Korea's "dear respected leader," today's propaganda report keeps you informed on the latest in state-sponsored agitprop. We begin in Iran!
The five U.S. soldiers responsible for incinerating a pile of Korans will be punished and could lose rank but that's not likely to quel the rage of Afghan clerics and citizens.
A bleak series of reports on retreating rebel forces in Syria depict a movement that's out-gunned, out-maneuvered and out of basic food and medical supplies.
The hunt for a third-party candidate to heal the nation's partisan-ravaged woes broke wide open Tuesday with Olympia Snowe's surprise departure from the Senate, followed by her veiled promise to work toward change "outside the United States Senate."
Fresh documents released by WikiLeaks raise new questions about the five-day war between Russia and Georgia in 2008. In particular, the role of Israel and its involvement in providing military intelligence to Russia in the run-up to war.
President Obama did the right thing when he apologized to Hamid Karzai for the Koran burnings in Afghanistan, but not for the reason he stated last night.
The U.S. economy is destined for a modest year of growth, according to economic experts and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Occupy Wall Street activists are up in arms over a new report describing Homeland Security officials monitoring Occupy demonstrations, but a closer look reveals much ado about nothing.
In the financial and political world, people care about the Nasdaq hitting 3,000 because people care about the Nasdaq hitting 3,000.
Three years after he was busted in a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigation, General Barry McCaffery is still stoking fears of Iran on NBC and consulting the network's executives and producers.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has imposed a complicated embargo on the media organizations he shared millions of Stratfor emails that, The Atlantic Wire has learned, has caused confusion and at least a few headaches and explains why so little has been published from the document dump.
WikiLeaks' steady drip of internal documents from the global intelligence outfit Stratfor hasn't unearthed any bombshells yet, but it has roped in a tantalizing roster of vaunted corporations and international actors that did business with the firm.
With an upcoming election in Russia, the 88th birthday of Robert Mugabe and an Iranian triumph over an Israeli filmmaker, it's been a busy day in propaganda for the world's authoritarian regimes.
In a sad development for those who grew up with her ubiquitous children's books, Jan Berenstain, co-creator of The Berenstain Bears, died on Friday at age 88 after suffering a severe stroke the day before, reports the Associated Press.
They weren't happy about it, but the German parliament voted to pickup Greece's tab once again in a bid to keep the Euro zone alliance strong, reports the BBC.
The journalist credited with bringing down U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal is joining the brave new world of #Fail, #LOL and #OMG.
It's supposed to be the president's signature legislative achievement, but a majority of registered voters in the battleground states that matter most support a repeal of the health care overhaul and say it's a "bad thing," according to a new USA Today/Gallup Poll.
Raking in far more than other phone hacking victims, singer Charlotte Church snagged a $952,000 settlement with the News International group, the AP reports Monday.
Virginia's proposed ultrasound bill requiring a transvaginal procedure prior to an abortion got a lot of women angry this week. Turns out, one of those women happened to be married to a GOP lawmaker.
The press is stirring up rumors of a near-divorce between Sarah Palin and her husband Todd but it looks like the "lamestream" media missed the joke.
There's nothing like a vague threat to show you mean business.
Painting a scary picture of a world with a nuclear-armed Iran, The Economist nevertheless argues emphatically against mounting an airstrike against the Islamic state.
As violence over the burning of Korans by U.S. troops in Afghanistan enter their fourth day, the controversy has hit the campaign trail with Newt Gingrich slamming President Obama's apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
In case you haven't noticed, gas prices are pushing $4 a gallon and since it's an election year, the burdensome price at the pump makes for excellent campaign trail fodder.
Wednesday night's GOP debate saw a lot of tough talk when it came to intervening in Syria, but a new report by the United States Central Command gives an ominous view of what destabilizing the Assad regime could do.
At noon today, the White House will unveil a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights announcing the cooperation of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL on a plan to install "Do Not Track" technology in Web browsers.
In 2008, White House Economic Adviser Christina Romer wrote a memo outlining a stimulus package as large as $1.8 trillion, only to have it buried by Chief Economic Adviser Larry Summers. Could it have saved the economy?
Iran can banish U.N. inspectors from its military sites but it can't obstruct the prying eyes of commercial satellites.
The Obama administration has a new corporate tax plan that is sensible, supported by both parties, and sure to fail.
Thanks to a host of military analysts, cartographers, and TV graphics departments, we have plenty of ideas about how an Israeli airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be carried out.
The cyberbullying trial following the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi in 2010 may be happening in New Jersey, but in India, the proceedings are being broadcast live as Indian-American defendant Dahrun Ravi faces up to 10-years in state prison.
GOP fundraisers have created a monster. Or better yet, an army of monsters. The super PACs assembled to support the GOP presidential candidates have become more powerful and more self-sufficient than the candidates' own campaigns.
Ron Paul may have an army of small donors but when it comes to billionaire sugar daddies, PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel is the financial stalwart of the campaign.
Counter-terrorism experts said Al Qaeda wouldn't vanish in a sweeping final act but in a gradual, winnowing decline. A new report out of Southeast Asia gives a sketch of what that looks like.
Jeffrey Kluger on John Glenn, Bill Keller on WikiLeaks, Drew Western on attack ads, The Washington Post on transparency, W. James Antle on Pat Buchanan.
The ProPublica editor explains two of his media obsessions: Sports and women's fashion.
The formation of an Occupy Wall Street super PAC by an activist in Decatur, Alabama is sparking a backlash from the movement's organizers in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
He's either a hero or a buffoon, but John Kinnucan, a tech analyst with Broadband Research, did nearly everything he could to goad the FBI until they came and got him.
Bobby Ghosh on Anthony Shadid, Gish Jen on Jeremy Lin, Kimberley Strassel on Oregon's Ron Wyden, Bloomberg View on the next World Bank head, and Charles Krauthammer on Obama and contraception.
The prospect of a nuclear-armed Tehran has loomed over discussions about a military intervention in Iran for years, but only recently have the country's ties to Al Qaeda crept into the mainstream.
Embracing Occupy Wall Street means embracing the language of the 99 percent—even when you're filing for a super PAC.
Mitt Romney slams China, Fareed Zakaria talks "zones of immunity," and The New York Times edit board gives a bipartisan round of applause.
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