"In a society where critical analysis and explanation of violent attacks of this nature are dismissed as terrorist sympathizing, there is a stultifying logic that assumes that contextualizing an event is tantamount to justifying it. This crippling impediment to public dialogue may be why the militarized response to the Boston Marathon bombings, infused with the More
"In a society where critical analysis and explanation of violent attacks of this nature are dismissed as terrorist sympathizing, there is a stultifying logic that assumes that contextualizing an event is tantamount to justifying it. This crippling impediment to public dialogue may be why the militarized response to the Boston Marathon bombings, infused with the More
Nygaard Notes Independent Periodic News and Analysis Number 531, May 17, 2013 On the Web at http://www.nygaardnotes.org/ This Week: Death, Danger, Fear, and Media ****** 1. “Quote” of the Week: "Seen as Accidental and Therefore Easily Forgotten.” 2. “Not Simply about Watching Something Unfold” 3. Death, Danger, Fear, and Media 4. Crime? Accident? Or Something Else Entirely? 5. Ethical More
Nygaard Notes Independent Periodic News and Analysis Number 531, May 17, 2013 On the Web at http://www.nygaardnotes.org/ This Week: Death, Danger, Fear, and Media ****** 1. “Quote” of the Week: "Seen as Accidental and Therefore Easily Forgotten.” 2. “Not Simply about Watching Something Unfold” 3. Death, Danger, Fear, and Media 4. Crime? Accident? Or Something Else Entirely? 5. Ethical More
"...while corporate media does indeed have a conservative slant, they also have an interest in convincing you that their reporting is neutral." By Larry Butler (about the author) Op Eds 4/28/2013 opednews.com Good Press Conference by www.mcmurraymusings.com "Liberal media bias" is one of those axiomatic slanders that is self-evident among conservative believers. Seldom do progressives respond in any way more meaningful than More
"...while corporate media does indeed have a conservative slant, they also have an interest in convincing you that their reporting is neutral." By Larry Butler (about the author) Op Eds 4/28/2013 opednews.com Good Press Conference by www.mcmurraymusings.com "Liberal media bias" is one of those axiomatic slanders that is self-evident among conservative believers. Seldom do progressives respond in any way more meaningful than More
And Then There Was One> Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth By Tom Engelhardt May 7, 2013 TomDispatch.com It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia. Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops under More
"I am moved to recount a bit of my lengthy talk with the Afghan minister after reading reams of meretricious bunkum about Afghanistan from the pens of US propaganda repeaters pretending to be reporters." By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Friday, 10. May 2013 GregPalast.com "Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry More
"I am moved to recount a bit of my lengthy talk with the Afghan minister after reading reams of meretricious bunkum about Afghanistan from the pens of US propaganda repeaters pretending to be reporters." By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Friday, 10. May 2013 GregPalast.com "Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry More
The HBO host has become a leading advocate of the view that Islam is uniquely violent and threatening. Does that hold up under critical scrutiny? Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk Saturday 11 May 2013 09.25 EDT [Video below] From l to r: Glenn Greenwald, Joy Reid, Charles Cooke, Bill Maher on HBO's "Real Time", May 11, 2013 Photograph: screen More
The HBO host has become a leading advocate of the view that Islam is uniquely violent and threatening. Does that hold up under critical scrutiny? Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk Saturday 11 May 2013 09.25 EDT [Video below] From l to r: Glenn Greenwald, Joy Reid, Charles Cooke, Bill Maher on HBO's "Real Time", May 11, 2013 Photograph: screen More
Change the Media, Change the World Panel description (full panel below): [youtube=http://youtu.be/5c8SnIjziQc] Full panel video: [youtube=http://youtu.be/vk3UDKwimH0] Published on Apr 11, 2013 videofreepress· Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is More
