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Daily Briefing—29th April 2010

Posted: 29 April 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
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News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

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Chomsky’s Lectern: What’s Ahead for the U.S.? (mp3)

Posted: 5 October 2009 by Noam Chomsky in Af-Pak War, Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political Science
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Professor Noam Chomsky discusses his coming book—Hopes and Prospects, to be released 1 January 2010—the military coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, his meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, mainstream media’s “narrow criticism” of state power, U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, and the meetings between world “leaders” and Iran with Matt Martin and listeners at KALW 91.7 FM in San Fransisco (52:11):

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Daily Briefing — 2nd-3rd July 2009

Posted: 2 July 2009 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Af-Pak War, Afghan surge, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Alvaro Uribe, Amnesty International, Amy Goodman, anarchism, anti-Statism, Chad, civilians, Colombia, Cynthia McKinney, Democracy Now, diplomacy, DR Congo, drones, ElBaradei, fascism, FBI, free press, free speech, Gareth Porter, gay rights, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, George Bush, Glenn Greenwald, Hamas, Hizbollah, Honduras, human rights, IAEA, India, Industrial Worker, international law, Iran, Iran election, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, IWW, Jeremy Scahill, law, Mairead Maguire, Manuel Zelaya, Maziar Bahari, media, Middle East, Mohamed el-Gharani, Mousavi, MSM, neoconservatives, North Korea, NPR, nuclear weapons, Obama, Pakistan, Palestine, PBoC, People’s Bank of China, Philip Giraldi, rape, Ray Odierno, renminbi, Roberto Michelett, Saddam Hussein, Taliban, terrorism, torture, UK, UN, US, War, war crimes, West Bank, Yukiya Amano, Zionism

Glenn Greenwald continues to slam NPR for banning the word “torture” and ducking his interview offers; Philip Giraldi on America’s obsession with creating enemies; 120,000 troops to remain in Iraq at the end of the year; Israel used Palestinian children as human shields in the Gaza Massacre; Afghan and Pakistani civilians grow colder toward the U.S. are it keeps killing people all around them; The Washington Post selling lobbyists access to Obama Administration and Congress; and more… (more…)

The 21st Century ‘Military-Industrial-Media Complex’ (Video)

Posted: 12 May 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political Science
Tags: 9/11, ABC, Amy Goodman, Barry McCaffrey, Bob Scales, CBS, Cheney, CNN, David Barstow, DN, Don Sheppard, fascism, FOX News, George Bush, inspector general, Iraq, Iraq War, John C. Garrett, Ken Allard, law, libertarian, liberty, media, Middle East, military analysts, military industrial complex, Montgomery Meigs, MSM, MSNBC, Newspeak, NPR, NYT, Obama, Pentagon, Pulitzer Prize, retired military, Rumsfeld, terrorism, Thomas G. McInerney, Tom McInerney, Torie Clark, US, War, Wayne Downing

The NY Times investigative reporter who the mainstream media won’t interview, David Barstow, interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! (DN!) for the first time since winning the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the corporate war machine’s propaganda wing: the Pentagon. (more…)

“Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (Video)

Posted: 2 January 2009 by Sayyid in International Affairs, Palestine-Israel
Tags: 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

– Israeli Newspeak Hits a New Low (Even for Them)

– The Politics of State Terror