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Showing videos filed under: freedom flotilla
Norman Finkelstein: Results, Not Rhetoric
July 8, 2010Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing their countries' foreign relations resembles two lovers discussing their future together. Though they have squabbled in the past over trivial things (things like settlement expansion that most other countries deem flagrant violations of international law), their July 6th meeting at the White House showed that their "unbreakable bond" cannot be shaken.Norman Finkelstein, Immigration, and Who Fights and Why?
July 7, 2010Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing their countries' foreign relations resembles two lovers discussing their future together. Though they have squabbled in the past over trivial things (things like settlement expansion that most other countries deem flagrant violations of international law), their July 6th meeting at the White House showed that their "unbreakable bond" cannot be shaken.Shayana Kadidal: SCOTUS Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid
June 23, 2010While foreign terror is unspeakable, domestic infringements on constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, are necessary for national security. In Holder vs. Humanitarian Law project, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional law that it is illegal to, “knowingly provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.”Humanitarian Law Project, Afghanistan & McChrystal, and Drones
June 23, 2010In Holder vs. Humanitarian Law project, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional law that it is illegal to “knowingly provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization,” overturning multiple lower court rulings that the law was too broad or vague. This terror-inducing “material support” and “resources” includes, but is not limited to humanitarian aid and non-violent resistance tactics. Under this law, humanitarian assistance on the recent Freedom Flotilla to Gaza could feasibly be legally charged and President Jimmy Carter’s quest for Middle East peace, which involved some communication with “terrorists,” could have quite possibly landed him behind bars.The F Word: "Bloody Sunday" Apologies, What About Monday?
June 16, 2010Yesterday, a prominent world leader made an official apology to his nation. “What happened...was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong. The Government is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the armed forces. And for that, on behalf of the Government, indeed on behalf of our country, I am deeply sorry.”Ann Wright: Pirates and PR
June 8, 2010Most Freedom Flotilla survivors describe how Israeli Defense Force treated the activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla as an appalling act of piracy, but if one gets their news from the mass media, like many Americans, they would think otherwisMike Papantonio, Ann Wright, and Learning from Roosevelt
June 7, 2010Oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, but something else has been gushing too lately: BP's public relations offensive. From controlling media access to the site, as Mac McClelland reported to us last week, to buying up search terms on the Web so that Google drives traffic to BP's own website, the oil company seems determined to burnish its image even as its oil continues to cover the coasts.Jim Naureckas: Trusting the Wrong Sources
June 4, 2010Oil gushers and Israeli commandoes dominated the headlines this week, but the news too often seemed to come from the same sources, over and over again. Cable news hosts and guests alike repeated the Israeli government's statements on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza--or what they termed a lack of one--and BP managed to continue to control access to its oil, coating beaches in the Gulf of Mexico.Jim Naureckas, Health Care Costs, and Arizona Protests
June 3, 2010Oil gushers and Israeli commandoes dominated the headlines this week, but the news too often seemed to come from the same sources, over and over again. Cable news hosts and guests alike repeated the Israeli government's statements on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza--or what they termed a lack of one--and BP managed to continue to control access to its oil, coating beaches in the Gulf of Mexico.The F Word: Flotilla Video as a Weapon
June 3, 2010A picture's worth a thousand words, but what those words are depends a whole lot in American media, at least, on pre-existing official attitudes. Take the picture of Neda Agha-Soltan -- last year, she became the face of Iranian resistance after a Youtube clip circulated showing the young protestor’s tragic death. Yet the video from the activists on the Freedom Flotilla has been described as a weapon, worthy of attack.
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