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Selling a war in 1917: the Creel Committee and modern propaganda
In 1917 the US built a propaganda machine in a week: 75,000 volunteer speakers, posters, films, forged documents and laws against dissent. What the record shows about the Committee on Public Information.
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Gulf of Tonkin, 1964: the attack that did not happen
A reported attack on US destroyers in August 1964 led Congress to vote 416-0 and 88-2 for war powers. The NSA's own historian later concluded the second attack never happened. How a non-event was presented as certain.
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Nayirah, 1990: how an atrocity story is built
A 15-year-old's four-minute testimony about babies taken from incubators helped sell the 1991 Gulf War. She was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, coached by a PR firm. How the story was built, and why real atrocities still get dismissed.
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Iraq 2002–2003: how the case for war was made
The case for invading Iraq rested on a few weak strands of intelligence, presented with certainty while dissent stayed hidden. What the US Senate (2004, 2008) and the UK Chilcot Inquiry (2016) later found, and the regime's own bluff.
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The press and the agency: Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee
"Project Mockingbird" in the CIA's own files is a 1963 wiretap of two columnists. The Senate's Church Committee found covert ties to about 50 US journalists and over 1,000 subsidised books. Documented, disputed and legend, separated.
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The "corpse factory": WWI atrocity propaganda and its long shadow
In 1917 Britain's papers said Germany boiled its dead for fat; a minister found "nothing incredible" in it. It was false. In 1942 true reports of mass murder were dismissed as "too similar" to that old lie. How atrocity propaganda backfired.