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Brave New Films: Martin Luther King and the War
January 19, 2011
"A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just."...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
Vince Warren, Russ Baker, Afghanistan and U.S. Debt
January 18, 2011
Accountability and transparency are two key elements to a responsible government, notes Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and WikiLeaks and other sites like it help fulfill the transparency side of things, at least. Accountability, though, at least from the U.S. government, seems to be slow in coming--and Vince notes that the Tunisian people, who removed their despot, could use our support as well.
Rethink Afghanistan: Pentagon's Half-Billion Dollar PR
September 10, 2010
General Petraeus is all over the media these days, but the attempt to sell the war in Afghanistan is much bigger than that. As this video from our friends at Brave New Films shows,the Pentagon's $500 million budget for public relations aimed at the U.S. people is churning out propaganda hand over fist.
Islamophobia Back with a Vengeance, 9 Years Later
September 10, 2010
It's the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon this weekend, and while one war has ostensibly been wound up, another still rages--and inside the U.S., the culture wars have reached a fever pitch, with Islamophobic ugliness centering on the anniversary seemingly everywhere. From a pastor in Florida threatening to burn Qurans on Saturday (and terror alerts being issued because of his actions) to the ongoing media arguments over the Cordoba House community center, American Muslims feel threatened, and the outreach to the larger Islamic world is threatened.
Greg Grandin, Islamophobia and 9/11, and Pentagon PR
September 9, 2010
September 11 is not only an infamous date in the U.S.--in Chile, it marks the anniversary of the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. This year, 33 miners will spend that anniversary trapped underground, and Greg Grandin notes that Chile is seeing what amounts to the "Shock doctrine with a human face" under its current regime--deregulation leading to safety issues like that in the mine. Meanwhile, Mexico continues to see ever-escalating violence from drug cartels, and the U.S. State Department is now calling it an "insurgency."
The F Word: All The News That's Fit To Print?
March 18, 2010
A top general appears in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee and what does he say? Well, it depends what you read, doesn't it? Read the New York Times, the Hill and most of the U.S. press and the general came out (as it were) for the first time, for a review of the Pentagon's Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy. Significant, newsworthy? Absolutely. But just as newsworthy were comments the General made about U.S./Israel relations. Comments which didn't make it into those papers.
Off the Map and Outside the Law
March 2, 2010
In Trevor Paglen's new book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, he investigates the "off the map" locations of covert government activity: including the "salt pit" in Kabul where Khaled El-Masri was held.
Mapping Torture, Renee Feltz, and Hebron
March 1, 2010
In Trevor Paglen's new book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, he investigates the "off the map" locations of covert government activity: including the "salt pit" in Kabul where Khaled El-Masri was held.
The F Word: Media Monsters Threaten Net Freedom
December 7, 2009
Comcast, the nation's biggest cable and broadband Internet company, has plans to take over NBC Universal. The result would be a new kind of media monster that would not only produce some of America's most popular entertainment but also control viewers' access to it.
Week in Review: Maintaining Bush's Propaganda Program?
October 30, 2009
Earlier this week, we spoke to Brad Jacobson, investigative journalist with The Raw Story, about his series on a Pentagon program that, under George W. Bush used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.

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