The unredacted Guantanamo files show clearly that the trail to Abbottabad Pakistan was known to the US intelligence services at least since 2005, when al-Libi, another Abbottabad dweller, was captured. Timing is everything. The US President announced killing of Osama bin Laden just as Wikileaks completed its publication of Guantanamo files. Was it coincidence? An […]
Posts Tagged ‘mainstream media’
WikiLeaks Internet Freedom and the Free Press
February 17, 2011“The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty” – Adlai E. Stevenson, Illinois Governor and Ambassador to the United Nations. 1900 -1965) “Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to […]
Might this make one question MSM reporting of the War in Afghanistan?
April 7, 2010Salon reports an example of how the Western mainstream media covers the war and its atrocities: On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in […]
Jesse Ventura commentary on 9/11
March 18, 2010Following arer excerpts of a column by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura: You didn’t see anything about it in the mainstream media, but at a recent conference in San Francisco, more than 1,000 architects and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress begin a new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center […]
A Definition of Mainstream Media
February 7, 2010Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progressive thought is tantamount to a definition of the mainstream media. It doesn’t have to be a […]
