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Counterspin Radio> Pardiss Kebriaei on Terror Speech, Bob McChesney on Digital Disconnect
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. […]
Thomas Hedges> Access Skews Coverage of Syrian War
Access Skews Coverage of Syrian War By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law Mar 8, 2013 truthdig.com The attacks are a reminder that the civil war in Syria is not a romantic democratic uprising, although one could get that impression from accounts in mainstream media outlets. That’s because American newspapers largely use photographs and quotations […]
Patrick Cockburn> Descent Into Holy War> Syria
What is Really Happening in Syria Descent Into Holy War “I have now been in Damascus for 10 days, and every day I am struck by the fact that the situation in areas of Syria I have visited is wholly different from the picture given to the world both by foreign leaders and by the […]
Robert Dreyfuss> Obama on Petraeus, Iran, Syria
Obama on Petraeus, Iran, Syria Robert Dreyfuss on November 14, 2012 – 4:28 PM ET TheNation.com On foreign policy and national security, President Obama’s first news conference knocked down conspiracy theories and scandal-mongering over the David Petraeus affair, raised a glimmer of hope on talks with Iran, and—thankfully—refused, so far at least, to join France in […]
Nicolas J.S. Davies> Armed Rebels and Middle-Eastern Power Plays: How the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria
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 […]
Jay Janson> Syria: NY Times’ Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time
Syria: NY Times’ Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time By Jay Janson November 2, 2012 A veil of disinformation by Western business controlled media, never possible by any outright State-controlled media, has descended on the world. But with technology is racing toward easy electronic access to documented history, those employed […]
Steve Breyman> Neocons to the Front: Five Reasons Not to Intervene in Syria Now
Neocons to the Front: Five Reasons Not to Intervene in Syria Now Neoconservative enthusiasm for intervention, perhaps somewhat dimmed by years of death, destruction, and failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, was reinvigorated by the fall of Gaddafi. By Steve Breyman (about the author) Oct. 1, 2012 opednews.com Last Friday (9/28), neocon military historian and columnist Max Boot […]
Syrian opposition, Western powers push for regime change in Syria
Syrian opposition, Western powers push for regime change in Syria By Johannes Stern 5 September 2012 wsws.org The Western powers and the pro-imperialist Syrian opposition are intensifying their campaign for regime change in Syria. On Monday the Syrian opposition reiterated its calls for military intervention in Syria, demanding more weapons to fight the regime […]
Skelton> The Guardian> The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking?
The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking? The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections. Time for a closer look … Charlie Skelton guardian.co.uk Thursday 12 July 2012 10.48 EDT Click> Video> Inside Syria – Has the UN observer mission failed in Syria? The […]
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