Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in Palestine, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [youtube]ycgi0hUihCs[/youtube] This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political […]
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Paul J. Balles explains why the 60 million right-wing Christians in the USA who expect a “second coming” of Jesus Christ into the Holy Land are in for a shock. Read the rest here
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“To Shoot An Elephant” is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. [youtube]JXHB2dnd42Q[/youtube] Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians on the receiving end of tanks, helicopter […]
20 years ago the United States and its allies launched Operation Desert Storm to fight back Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Has the United States learned any lessons since? [youtube]CEyIsoGLzko[/youtube] Author John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine says the US mainstream media worked as agents for the government, if you […]
There has been a fresh round of articles appearing recently concerning world population, suggesting that journalists may have grown tired finally of writing / worrying / bullshitting about climate change. Indeed, Google Trends indicates that articles on population growth have doubled since 2008. Apparently, 2011 is the year the planet […]
The Islamabad government has admitted for the first time that there are US Marines operating in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, a report says. The disclosure has been made during a closed-door meeting of the parliamentary committee on defense, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. Senator Khurshid Ahmed, a member […]
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions is a two-edged sword, bringing relief to starving Gazans, and starvation to the occupier. It was almost exactly two years ago that Israel launched its invasion of Gaza, carrying out 22 days of murder and mayhem, killing 1400 and leaving 5400 civilians crippled for life.
The United States government has repeatedly stated that the treat from Al-Qaeda against America is very real, and that all action is being taken to eliminate that threat. Nobody in their right mind would question such a serious assessment about a sensitive national security matter from the world’s leading democracy. […]