Media
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Globovisón: The Loose Cannon of Venezuelan Media By Carlos Ruiz
As the anti-capitalist character of the Chavez government revealed itself, it became starkly clear that democratic opinion was not being reflected in the established private media. Influential newspapers dropped their pretenses of varying ‘liberal’ tendencies, and increasingly appeared to be acting from an agreed playbook. Continue reading
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Internet Threatened By Censorship, Secret Surveillance, And Cybersecurity Laws By Stephen Lendman
Net Neutrality must be defended at all costs. Preserving a viable, independent, free and open Internet (and the media overall) is essential to a functioning democracy, but the forces aligned against it are formidable, daunting, relentless, and reprehensible. Some past challenges suggest future ones ahead. Continue reading
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Iqbal Jassat – ‘Terror’ Channels Face Freedom Threat
The current move to ‘cleanse’ the airwaves involves pro-Israeli members of the congress who are in the process of submitting a bill that seeks to target satellite stations as “terrorist organizations”. Continue reading
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“Guerrilla Ad Campaign Replaces “Study in Israel” Billboards”
The guerrilla ads replaced ads which also featured photos of groups of people, beneath the headline, ‘Study in Israel? You’d like it here.’ The ad campaign was part of an intensive campaign to promote study in Israel at California universities. Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: The Fun House Mirror: Distortions and Omissions in the News on Bolivia By Dan Beeton
Bolivia’s history, both recent and distant, is, of course, unique, complex, and worthy of careful analysis. When it pays attention to Bolivian politics, however, the U.S. press sometimes offers coverage that treats the current government of Bolivia as a threat, and one that perhaps lacks appropriate popular support. One can only hope other U.S. media… Continue reading
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Congo Ignored, Not Forgotten – When 5 million dead aren’t worth two stories a year By Julie Hollar
U.S. media haven’t always ignored the Congo; it was one of the top foreign affairs stories in the early ’60s (In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, 2002). At the time, the U.S. government was actively working to take down the newly independent country’s leader Patrice Lumumba and pave the way for greater U.S. business participation… Continue reading
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Capitalism Hits the Fan Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Continue reading
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The Hugo Chavez Show: the other side
Steve Ellner exposes the biased, anti-Chavez nature of the documentary The Hugo Chavez Show and asks the question: ‘Why is the US media incapable of presenting the other side when it comes to Chavez’s Venezuela?’ Continue reading
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Video: Is Zionism Racism? UK Ambassador gets grilled on the walkout
It is an incredibly important excerpt of a document on the nature of what the journalist clearly recognises as a “stunt” and the Ambassador insists upon calling a “protest”, falling all over his own rhetoric in the process. Continue reading
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Investigative journalism under threat from new regulations By Charles Arthur
Worries focus on the fact that every government department, local council and even quango can access this telephone and internet data, given a judge’s clearance. What will they use it for? Continue reading
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ADBUSTERS Win Legal Victory Against Canada’s Media Giants – Legal Action in the US Next
This is an inspiring idea for media activists and could pave the way for further legal victories down the road not only on the TV airwaves, but in cyberspace as well. Continue reading
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Up Is Down: The Military Budget By David Swanson
My point is not just that the military should be cut and that non-military investment produces more and better paying jobs. My immediate point is that we are not getting the news Continue reading
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Video: Reel Bad Arabs
Hollywood’s villification of Arabs Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 68, 4 April, 2009 Some thoughts about socialism
Wall Street has not only an army of lawyers and accountants, but a horde of mathematicians with advanced degrees searching for the perfect equations to separate people from their money. Continue reading
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The Deep Politics of Hollywood In the Parents’ Best Interests By Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham
Each of the dominant Hollywood studios (“the majors”) is now a subsidiary of a much larger corporation, and therefore is not so much a separate or independent business, but rather just one of a great many sources of revenue in its parent company’s wider financial empire. Continue reading
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Movies: Madrid Before Hanita & The Guernica Children
Two interesting and I think timely movies to see if you are in London. (The Guernica Children is directed by a cousin of mine Steve Bowles and was originally aired on BBC4 in the UK) on Sunday, 8 March, 2009 at 10:30 am at the Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Square. Nearest Tube, Russell Square (Piccadilly Line).… Continue reading
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Iqbal Tamimi – Palestinian Women Photojournalists
Palestinian women started taking photographs of families and holy places, ceremonies and weddings, but ended up taking pictures of bodies of killed young children, shelled schools ruined homes, and lots of blood Continue reading
The New Dark Age 