Mnar Muhawesh, Founder and Editor In Chief, MintPress News, talked about how the tightly controlled corporate media ignores reporting and good journalism to follow directives on creating enemies and promoting wars. Almost all of the media outlets in this country are owned by a few corporations.  (See image below.)

https://vimeo.com/111387209

November 9, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Muhawesh is one of few Muslim journalists in the U.S. and of fewer still women Muslim journalists. In 2009, Muhawesh also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media.

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According to its web site (mintpressnews.com), “MintPress News is an independent online journalism startup that officially launched February 2013 providing issue-based-original reporting, in-depth investigations and thoughtful analysis of the most pressing topics facing our nation and its foreign policy through the lens of social justice and human rights.”

The Mint Press News administrative office is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota; however, journalists, correspondents and several editors and staff are based across the nation and world in California, New York, Washington DC, Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi, and several other states, and in several countries across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Her talk was sponsored by The Mideast Committee of WAMM (Women Against Military Madness).

Video by  Bill Sorem PRO

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