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Posts Tagged ‘MSNBC’
Media Manipulates ‘End’ of Iraq War
Posted: 31 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Barack Obama, Blackwater, Bush Administration, CNN, combat troops, corporatism, Dick Cheney, FAIR, FOX News, Halliburton, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi oil, Jeremy Scahill, media, mercenary firms, Michael Corcoran, Middle East, military industrial complex, MSNBC, New York Times, Newspeak, Obama Administration, oil, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, PSCs, Rachel Maddow, residual forces, War, War on Terror, Washington Post, Xe
Michael Corcoran: Just as the media lied to help us get into a war, they are now lying us out of one.
Iraq War Ends Again Without Really Ending… Again (mp3)
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: AntiWar.com, Bush Adminsitration, Chris Matthews, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, extrajudicial assassination, Iraq, Iraq withdrawal, Jason Ditz, Keith Olbermann, media, mercenary firms, Middle East, MSNBC, NBC, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, private contractors, PSCs, Rachel Maddow, Scott Horton, United States, US embassies, War on Terror, Warfare and Conflict
Jason Ditz, news editor at AntiWar.com, discussed the Orwellian ‘end’ to the Iraq War at AntiWar Radio with Scott Horton (20:48):
Evening Briefing—19th Aug 2010
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACTA, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Logs, AIG, Baha'i, BP, China, CIA, Death Penalty, Dennis Kucinich, Eden Abergil, extrajudicial assassination, Federal Reserve, Gaza, Gaza blockade, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, IDF, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Islam, Islamophobia, Jason Ditz, John Robbins, Keith Olbermann, Monsanto, MSNBC, national debt, NBC, NY Times, Pakistan, Park 51, Phillipines, religion, Roderick Long, Sharia Law, South Africa, Taiwan, Task Force 373, terrorism, TF 373, unemployment, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, Zionism
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Daily Briefing—22nd June 2010
Posted: 22 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: activism, Africa, al-Quds, Alastair MacDonald, Amira Hass, Andy Worthington, arsenic, Bangladesh, Blackwater, BP, Bush Administration, cap and trade, carbon tax, CCR, Chicago Police, China, Citigroup, CNY, Colombia, direct action, DPRK, East Jerusalem, Faisal Shahzad, Fareed Zakaria, Federal Reserve, flotilla, G20, Gaza blockade, Glenn Greenwald, gold, Google, Green Revolution, Gregory White, Gulf oil spill, habeas corpus, IAEA, indefinite detention, India, Iran, Israel, Jeff Stein, journalism, JPMorgan Chase, Juan Manuel Santos, Julian Assange, Kashmir, Kelley Vlahos, Lebanon, Mika Brzezinski, mining, Monsanto, MSNBC, North Korea, Obama Administration, Palestine-Israel, Paul Joseph Waton, police brutality, renminbi, SCOTUS, settlements, Sheldon Richman, Steve Watson, Syria, torture, tuberculosis, Turkey, UNRWA, USDCNY, Wendy McElroy, West Bank, Wikileaks, Will Grigg, William Fisher, Xe, yuan
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Was Joe Stack a Terrorist? (Video)
Posted: 16 April 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: 9/11, American Empire, anti-Americanism, Bush Administration, Chris Matthews, Democrats, fascism, imperialism, IRS, Islamic terrorism, Joe Stack, Joe Vernon, liberals, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, MSNBC, neoconservatives, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Osama bin Laden, progressives, Rachel Maddow, Republicans, Steve King, tea party movement, terrorism, US, War, War on Terror
Jack Hunter, a.k.a. “The Southern Avenger”, doesn’t think to nonsensically disagree he was. But adds that understanding terrorism isn’t condoning it, but imperative to ending it—no matter what dirt on what hemisphere on which the terrorist was born (5:24):
If This Be Sedition, Make the Most of It
Posted: 8 April 2010 by Kevin Carson in International Affairs, National News, Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, Bush Administration, C4SS, Center for a Stateless Society, Chris Matthews, dissent, fascism, Glenn Greenwald, Howard Zinn, Hutaree, Keith Olbermann, Kevin Carson, libertarian, liberty, militia movement, MSNBC, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, Obama Administration, progressive, Rachel Maddow, Sara Robinson, sedition, tea party movement, US, Wikileaks, William Blum
Kevin Carson on the Orwellian usage of the ‘sedition card’ by the tyrants’ willing servants.
How ‘Progressives’ Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the F.B.I.
Posted: 31 March 2010 by Editors in National News, Political ScienceTags: ACLU, Albert Einstein, Anthony Gregory, anti-Statism, antiwar movement, Big Brother, Branch Davidians, Civil Rights Movement, COINTELPRO, Cold War, conspiracy, fascism, FBI, FDR, government surveillance, human rights, Hutaree, law, libertarian, liberty, Martin Luther King, media, MLK, MSNBC, Newspeak, privacy rights, propaganda, Rachel Maddow, sedition, terrorism, The Modern Militia Movement, US, Waco, WWI, WWII
Anthony Gregory at The Independent Institute blog, The Beacon, on the ‘progressive’ media’s embrace of government thugs at war with people.
Scahill and Greenwald on Media Elite Manufacturing Consent for Self-Proclaimed ‘Establishment’ (Video)
Posted: 1 October 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Amy Goodman, anti-Statism, Arianna Huffington, Bill Moyers, blogging, CBS, Chuck Todd, corporate media, corporatism, democracy, Democrats, free press, George Bush, Glenn Greenwald, GritTV, groupthink, independent journalism, international law, internet media, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Flanders, law, libertarian, media elite, Middle East, MSNBC, NBC, New York Times, Newspeak, NPT, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, Obama, Republicans, terrorism, Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw, torture, US, War, War on Terror, WMDs
A must watch: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald, two of our most respected voices speaking truth to illegitimate power, on GRITtv with Laura Flanders, Wednesday. Mr. Scahill and Mr. Greenwald discuss the media elite and how—in their own words—form the “political debate” by not reporting facts, but an ESPN-esque play-by-play of what those in power are asserting. They go after the major TV networks and print media, Chuck Todd, Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw and others on how they ‘manufacture consent’ for torture and immoral war in this 60 minute video, but the segment with Mr. Scahill and Mr. Greenwald ends at the 29:30 mark:
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Military Sources: McChrystal Report Calls for 500,000 Troops in Afghanistan
Posted: 27 September 2009 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Afghan surge, ANA, Andrea Mitchell, ANP, Bob Woodward, COIN, conscription, counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, draft, Iraq Surge, ISAF, Kimberly Kagan, Middle East, MSNBC, NATO, Newspeak, Pentagon, Stanley McChrystal, terrorism, US, War, War on Terror, Washington Post
msnbc’s Andrea Mitchell reports that–according to military sources–redacted in the report [.pdf] submitted to the Pentagon by the top U.S.-NATO commander, General Stanley McChrystal, is the assessment that 500,000 troops are needed in Afghanistan between the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Afghan National Army (A.N.A.). By this fall, the U.S. share of the—over 100,000-troop—ISAF coalition is to be around 68,000 and the A.N.A. is currently numbered at around 92,000 (0:53):
Court Ruling: Federal Reserve Makes Public ‘Involuntary Investors’
Posted: 25 August 2009 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: bailout, banking, Bloomberg News, corporatism, economy, fascism, Federal Reserve, FOIA, Great Recession, healthcare, libertarian, liberty, Loretta Preska, Mark Pittman, market-anarchism, Medicaid, Medicare, Michael Bloomberg, MSNBC, Newspeak, social security, US, Wall Street, War on Terror
In November 2008, Bloomberg filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to force the Federal [sic] Reserve to ‘disclose emergency loan deals’. Monday, a federal judge ruled against the FED.
Bush-Obama ‘Christian Crusader’ Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder (Video)
Posted: 5 August 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National NewsTags: Afghanistan, Amy Goodman, Blackwater, Christian, Crusades, Democracy Now, Erik Prince, fascism, George Bush, Haji, Hillary Clinton, human rights, international law, Iraq War, Jeremy Scahill, Keith Olbermann, Knights Templar, law, manslaughter, mercenary, Middle East, MSNBC, murder, Obama, US, War on Terror, Xe
Jeremy Scahill broke this story yesterday and spoke with Keith Olbermann on msnbc last night and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! (DN!). In a sworn affidavit, an ex-Blackwater operative and an ex-U.S. Marine — know only as John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 — implicated the founder of Blackwater founder Erik Prince in murder(s). Blackwater was the Bush Administration’s hand-picked private mercenary squad in Iraq and Afghanistan that continues to operate under the Obama Administration.
John Doe #2 swore: “To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.”
Wall Street Reaping Outsized Profits Trading With The FED
Posted: 3 August 2009 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: Adam Kokesh, Bank of America, banking, Berni Sanders, Bill O'Reilly, Brian Stelter, Chris Matthews, Citigroup, Constitution, corporatism, credit derivatives, Dylan Ratigan, economy, FDIC, Federal Reserve, fiat money, GAO, GE, Glenn Greenwald, Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulsson, HR 1207, JP Morgan Chase, Keith Olbermann, libertarian, liberty, market-anarchism, Morgan Stanley, MSNBC, Newspeak, Obama, Rachel Maddow, Richard Wolffe, Ron Paul, Ryan Grimm, Timothy Geithner, tyranny, US, Wall Street
‘Wall Street banks are reaping outsized profits by trading with the Federal [sic] Reserve,’ Henny Sender reports today. The FED is one of Wall Street biggest customers for shit with no value. “You can make big money trading with the government,” said an executive at a leading investment management firm. “The government is a huge buyer and seller and Wall Street has all the pricing power.”
If you’re unsure how this works, msnbc’s Dylan Ratigan recently broke it down real well (8:39):
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