Via the Guardian: It’s almost as if… Rahm Emanuel… was lifting a page from… Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine… – as if he was reading her account of Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” as a cookbook recipe, rather than as the ominous episode that it was.… In record time, Emanuel successfully exploited the fact that Chicago will host the upcoming… G8… and… Nato… summit meetings to…
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NYTimes discusses future US role in Afghanistan but magically ignores mercenaries
This is typical corporate media reporting on “our” wars. Ideologically embedded New York Times reporters in Washington DC are handed information from the White House and essentially write a press release for the Obama administration. Any mention of the huge role of private contractors in Afghanistan, a group that will continue to grow, like in…
What White House press corps need to hear; you suck
Michael Hastings, author of the stunning new book The Operators, talks to Harpers: 4. Your book pays at least as much attention to the Pentagon press corps and its relationship with power as it does to Stanley McChrystal and his team, and you write that after your article ran, you found that you had few…
Why are still debating the morality of one-state solution?
Max Ajl wonders the same thing in Monthly Review: One state or two? … Boycott of Israeli goods or goods from the settlements? … Is the lobby the genesis of American wrongdoing in Palestine or is it imperialism? … The questions — regarding vision, strategy, and analysis — produce sharp cleavages on the Left. … Indeed, generally ones much…
Four handy rules to understand American empire
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald provides direction: The Rules of American Justice are quite clear: (1)… If you are a high-ranking government official who commits war crimes, you will receive full-scale immunity, both civil and criminal, and will have the American President demand that all citizens Look Forward, Not Backward. (2)… If you are a low-ranking member of the…
While Israel and its Western lobbyists push for war against Iran, some history
Robert Fisk explains (and mainstream journalists, including on ABC Radio’s AM this morning, who continually repeat White House and Tel Aviv propaganda against Tehran, should take note): Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary…
2011 was a year to remember
2011 In Review: Nation Shocked To Find Out Elizabeth Taylor Wasn’t Already Dead
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post on Western murder of Iranian nuclear scientists
The recent murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist by (probably) Israel or America was a huge international story but most of the Western media coverage refused to call the killing by its rightful name, murder. I was asked by Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post to comment about this press issue (my comment appears around 8:53):
Who is truly investigating Wikileaks (and why we have the right to know)
Because we need to put a serious check on out of control executive and corporate power (via the New York Times): This much is known: In its hunt for information about three people it believes to be associated with the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, the Justice Department has sought to extract details about them and their…