When this kind of information circulates around the world… Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what. Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring…
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Memo to journalists; your job is to deeply probe and offend the establishment over war
Is there a better description of what all reporters should be doing as explained here by American journalist Michael Hastings… in 2010? Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. My views are critical but that shouldn’t be mistaken for hostile – I’m just not a stenographer. There is a body of work that…
What Murdoch gave us all; hacking 9/11 victims
If true, this would be yet another example of the culture created by Rupert Murdoch. His legacy is some fine journalism and a whole heap of trash and bigotry. The International Herald Tribune reports: Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, relatives of some of the victims began suspecting that someone was eavesdropping on…
America is an Empire and has every intention of remaining so
Rest easy lovers of America starting and maintaining wars across the globe. The proposed cuts to the Pentagon’s budget won’t affect those conflicts. Former State Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who has occasionally questioned the power of the US state, just tweeted a very revealing statement that truly speaks for itself: Even with expected… #Pentagon… budget cuts, we…
Media wanted to back Iraq war (and the military merely helped the process)
Michael Hastings is one of America’s finest young journalists, an outsider who penetrates the system he’s paid to investigate. Unlike most hacks who love to be close to power and befriend those they’re supposed to critique, Hastings has a history of listening and reporting the reality behind the cretins and fools who run our criminal…
Iraqis should be thanking us for all we gave them (apart from mass death, of course)
“Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. “We have done a great thing as a nation. We freed a people and gave their country back to them.” “It is pretty exciting,” said another…
