[youtube=http://youtu.be/o6kdi1UXxhY] In this episode of Truth in Media, Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media. Swann takes on the central issue of whether or not ISIS was created by "inaction" by the United States government or by "direct" action. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times More
Vijay Prashad says the Saudis and Iran must be part of a regional solution that includes ending support for jihadists in Syria; the solution will not come from the US military [youtube=http://youtu.be/fiLoTDQehXg] Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! More
Link: http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin053113.mp3 or Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Did Barack Obama's National Defense University speech signal a sea change in White House terrorism policy? That depended on who was doing the listening. For most corporate media, Obama made a sharp turn, speaking of more limited drone killing policies, and discussing the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. More
Link: http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin053113.mp3 or Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Did Barack Obama's National Defense University speech signal a sea change in White House terrorism policy? That depended on who was doing the listening. For most corporate media, Obama made a sharp turn, speaking of more limited drone killing policies, and discussing the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. More
Access Skews Coverage of Syrian War By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law Mar 8, 2013 truthdig.com A Free Syrian Army fighter displays a damaged ordinance in Aleppo, Syria. AP/Andoni Lubak The attacks are a reminder that the civil war in Syria is not a romantic democratic uprising, although one could get that More
Access Skews Coverage of Syrian War By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law Mar 8, 2013 truthdig.com A Free Syrian Army fighter displays a damaged ordinance in Aleppo, Syria. AP/Andoni Lubak The attacks are a reminder that the civil war in Syria is not a romantic democratic uprising, although one could get that More
Armed Rebels and Middle-Eastern Power Plays: How the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria “But one of the basic questions that historians will have to answer about the Arab Spring is this: why did revolutions against Western puppets in the Arab world remain mainly nonviolent, while those against independent governments turned into bloody More
Armed Rebels and Middle-Eastern Power Plays: How the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria “But one of the basic questions that historians will have to answer about the Arab Spring is this: why did revolutions against Western puppets in the Arab world remain mainly nonviolent, while those against independent governments turned into bloody More
Syria: Shameful Performance of Western Media By As'ad AbuKhalil - Mon, 2012-07-30 19:11- Angry Corner Al Akhbar English The performance of the Western media (American, British, French and others) regarding the Syrian conflict has been quite shameful. One does not expect much from American media. Ill-informed foreign editors and correspondents and political cowardice turn American media More
Syria: Shameful Performance of Western Media By As'ad AbuKhalil - Mon, 2012-07-30 19:11- Angry Corner Al Akhbar English The performance of the Western media (American, British, French and others) regarding the Syrian conflict has been quite shameful. One does not expect much from American media. Ill-informed foreign editors and correspondents and political cowardice turn American media More
Syria: Shameful Performance of Western Media By As'ad AbuKhalil - Mon, 2012-07-30 19:11- Angry Corner Al Akhbar English The performance of the Western media (American, British, French and others) regarding the Syrian conflict has been quite shameful. One does not expect much from American media. Ill-informed foreign editors and correspondents and political cowardice turn American media More
Who is fighting in Syria? by Thierry Meyssan Though the Western press portrays the Free Syrian Army as an armed revolutionary group, for more than a year Thierry Meyssan has affirmed that it is on the contrary a counter-revolutionary body. According to him, it would have progressively passed from the hands of reactionary monarchies in the More
