Posted on May 16, 2008 by Mike Booth
Last March 13-16 some 250 American veterans of the Iraq and Afghan occupations gathered at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD for the “Winter Soldier – Iraq and Afghanistan” conference, a replica of a similar event which took place in Detroit in 1971, during the Vietnam War. This recent weekend was devoted to [...]
Filed under: Iraq, US media, United States, gringos, politics, sources | Tagged: Afghanistan, Alternet, American mainstream media, American mainstrr, Democracy Now, Indy Media, information blackout, Iraq, media blackout, NY Times, occupation, our boys, The Guardian, The Real News, Truthout, Winter Soldier | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 3, 2008 by Mike Booth
Posted on April 30, 2008 by Mike Booth
Journalist Pepe Escobar is one of those remarkable Brazilians like the film director Fernando Meirelles or the photographer Sebastiao Salgado, rich in both human and professional qualities. In fact, all three of them are related to Sao Paulo. The first two were born in that city and Salgado studied economics at the university there. Escobar [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Mike Booth
I’m Aghast But Not Surprised In a bombshell article published yesterday in the NY Times, entitled “Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand,” investigative journalist David Barstow reveals a continuing Pentagon psychological operations (PSYOP) maneuver to disinform the American public through the manipulation of retired senior military officers employed by the media as news analysts. [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by Mike Booth
This is television for people who hate television. Why hasn’t someone done this before? It would have to come from Canada, wouldn’t it. Look at any of their stories and see the difference. Is this left-wing journalism? Founder Paul Jay says no, it’s just journalism. He also says, “Most people are aware that politicians are [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by Mike Booth
I’ve been an unconditional admirer of Lewis Lapham ever since I discovered Harper’s Magazine many years ago. Lapham was the editor of Harper’s for 30 years, from 1976 to 2006. His current title is “editor emeritus,” which is not to say he’s retired. He still writes his regular Notebook feature for Harper’s and he’s embarked [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by Mike Booth
For most of my adult lifetime the New York Times, the American newspaper of record, was practically an object of reverence for me. “All the news that’s fit to print…” proclaimed the masthead, and still does. I still read it online even though, over the years, it has lost some of its luster. To begin [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2007 by Mike Booth
The British reporter, Robert Fisk, was not only a valuable source for me in researching and writing The You of My Song, but a significant moral support, as well, when it came to writing not just with honesty, but with conviction. Now, after spending more than three decades covering the most conflictive areas of Europe [...]
Filed under: Iraq, The You of My Song: Notes from a Voluntary Exile, books, politics, sources | Tagged: foreign correspondents, John Malkovich, Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, Robert Fisk, The Conquest of the Middle East, The Great War for Civilization, The Independent, The You of My Song, YouTube | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 5, 2007 by Mike Booth
Most of us agree that free access to reliable information is essential for democratic societies. Until recently most of our information came from books, magazines, newspapers and radio and television news. Most of this news arrives late, in bits and pieces, and comes straight from “official spokespersons” via the mainstream media. Not only that, we [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2007 by Mike Booth
I want to mention another honest, independent journalist, one whom some consider to be the finest investigative reporter of our time, and point you to a revealing video interview where you can very quickly take the measure of the man. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million. Pulitzer [...]
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