To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
Posts Tagged ‘ABC’
WikiLeaks Current Project Reveals ‘Abusive Mass Spying’
Posted: 22 June 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: ABC, Adrian Lamo, Afghanistan, anarchism, Andrew Fowler, anti-Statism, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, CIA, CID, Collateral Murder, Echelon, Ellen Nakashima, espionage, Farah Massacre, Garani Massacre, Glenn Greenwald, Grenai Massacre, human rights, Julian Assange, libertarian, MI6, Mike Gogulski, Newspeak, State Department, US, War, War on Terror, West Baghdad Massacre, whistleblowers, Wikileaks
WikiLeaks founder recently hinted at ‘anarchistic’ leaking of documents relating to a deadly 2009 U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan and the future leaking of wide-reaching detailed spying ‘affecting many people and organizations.
“Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (Video)
Posted: 2 January 2009 by Sayyid in International Affairs, Palestine-IsraelTags: 242, 338, ABC, AIPAC, CAMERA, CBS, Chomsky, CNN, consulate, corporatism, Ehud Barak, elite, fascism, Fisk, FOX, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, George Bush, Hamas, human rights, international law, Israel, jewish, Kadima, labor, Likud, Livni, lobby, media, Media Foundation, MSM, NBC, neighborhoods, Netanyahu, Newspeak, NPR, occupier, Palestine, PR, propaganda, public relations, right wing, settlements, territories, terrorism, UN, UN Security Council, US, War, Zionism
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites–oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others–work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.
Media Foundation – “Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” – 2006 (1:19:14):
More on Israeli Newspeak:
– Obama, Gaza and the Hypocrisy of American ‘Liberals’
– Israel Succeeds at Missing Targets
On Investigation and Prosecution of Bush Administration Members for Torture (Video)
Posted: 23 December 2008 by Sayyid in National News, Political ScienceTags: ABC, Amy Goodman, Cheney, civil liberty, confession, Democracy Now, Department of Justice, enhanced interrogation, George Bush, Gitmo, GTMO, Guantanamo, human rights, interview, Jerrold Nadler, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Michael Ratner, Mukasey, Obama, pardon, Paul Jay, The Real News Network, torture, TRNN, War on Terror, waterboarding
The New York Times editorial from last week, “The Torture Report,” is a must-read for some back-story.
Last week, outgoing US Vice-President Dick Cheney made a series of remarkable comments in his exclusive interview with ABC. Cheney admitted to playing a role in the authorization of the use of waterboarding and other ‘aggressive interrogation techniques’, defended the decision to listen-in on domestic phone calls, and essentially provided broad approval for all the actions taken by his government over his tenure. In the first part of our interview with Michael Ratner, Michael gives his analysis of both the significance of the interview, and what he believes are Cheney’s motivations for such an uncharacteristic offering of information from the notoriously secretive VP.
BIO:
Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.
Part One (8:24):
Part Two (13:13):
Democracy Now! – “Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Calls for Independent Counsel to Investigate Cheney and Rumsfeld for Violating Torture Laws”:
Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York has urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and other senior Bush administration officials for violations of the law relating to the torture of prisoners in US custody. Nadler is the chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Part One (10:37):
Part Two (10:42):
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