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Forte: Human Terrain System in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary: Searching for Evidence of the Positive
Blog Post, July, 31 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Using the Afghan War Diary leaked via Wikileaks, what kind of "positive" case can be made for the U.S. Army's Human Terrain Teams, which embed civilian social scientists in counterinsurgency? The answers show what is limited and what is missing fr...
Dimaggio: Polarized Politics, American Style
Znet Article, July, 28 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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The Pew Research center reports in its July national survey results that the public believes the Democratic Party is more to the left than Republicans are to the right.
Forte: Counterinsurgency: It's Bloody Horrible
Blog Post, July, 19 2010
Maximilian Forte
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The compliant media have produced some wonderful buffoonery in the place of critical analysis. One example is Charlie Rose's discussion about counterinsurgency, gushing with flattery toward "humanitarian" imperialists like Sarah Sewall at Harvard,...
Weisbrot: Life Imitates Art
Znet Article, July, 18 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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It's nice when you make a documentary about how the major media outlets misrepresent reality, and the media response to the film proves your point. In fact, the media's response to Oliver Stone's "South of the Border," which I wrote with Tariq Ali...
Young: Good Left, Bad Left
Znet Article, July, 17 2010
Kevin Young
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Faced with a tide of protest in Latin America against the US and US-allied leaders, the US government has tried to limit its loss of control over the hemisphere. One strategy for doing so has involved promoting what it considers the "good," respo...
Forte: Grace McFate: Anthropology, Avatar, and the Human Terrain System in the Italian Press
Blog Post, July, 15 2010
Maximilian Forte
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A review of an article in Italy's Corriere della Sera (with translation) about the Human Terrain System, comparing it to the film Avatar, and implying that McFate is a genius superstar; low on facts, and some falsehoods presented as well. David Pr...
Pilger: The Charge Of The Media Brigade
Commentary, July, 08 2010
John Pilger
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The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years...
Young: Honduras, Iran, and the Propaganda Model
Znet Article, July, 05 2010
Kevin Young
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Government repression in Iran and Honduras in the summer of 2009 was at least roughly comparable. Consistent and honest news media could thus be expected to devote at least roughly comparable levels of attention and indignation to the two cases. I...
Wilpert: New York Times to Oliver Stone
Commentary, July, 01 2010
Gregory Wilpert
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It is truly amazing how a long-time Latin America correspondent who accuses Oliver Stone’s recently released documentary “South of the Border” of “mistakes, misstatements and missing details,” manages to get practically every single statement of h...
Forte: The Military’s Media Whores: On Ethics, Power, Rapport and Responsibility
Blog Post, July, 01 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Who do the media serve? What is ethical reporting? How are the media becoming a form of militainment? What is being sacrificed for the sake of good PR for the Pentagon?
Fisk: Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda
Znet Article, June, 27 2010
Robert Fisk
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Journalism has become a linguistic battleground – and when reporters use terms such ‘spike in violence’ or ‘surge’ or ‘settler’, they are playing along with a pernicious game, argues Robert Fisk.
Forte: Marjeh, Afghanistan: X-ray of McChrystal’s Bleeding Ulcer
Blog Post, June, 27 2010
Maximilian Forte
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How Marja/Marjah/Marjeh went from being a city, to a town, to a rural area, and from a success story, with proclamations about the end of the Taliban, to a "bleeding ulcer." Also, the role played by the Human Terrain System, a critical diagnosis o...
Forte: General Stanley McTerror: The Shocking Admissions the Media Treated as Unremarkable
Blog Post, June, 23 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Look the other way, the mainstream media lets go without comment the real story of state terrorism contained in McChrystal's remarks. But let's focus on Obama's hurt feelings instead.
Dimaggio: Strategic Interests at the Empire’s Periphery
Znet Article, June, 22 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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The conflict in Kyrgyzstan has ushered in one of the most pressing humanitarian crises that Americans aren't hearing about. There's been relatively little attention to Kyrgyzstan - a mountainous, landlocked Muslim country in Central Asia - by eit...
Schechter: Memories And Misery In CNN Land While Homeowners
Commentary, June, 20 2010
Danny Schechter
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Somehow, I can’t escape CNN. Last Saturday I joined Ted Turner, Wolf Blitzer and more than 300 current and former CNN employees at a celebration of the network’s 30th anniversary at the National Press Club in Washington. I was there as one of the ...
Forte: Militainment: U.S. Military Propaganda in the News Media, Hollywood, and Video Games
Blog Post, June, 13 2010
Maximilian Forte
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Focusing on Hollywood's alliance with the Pentagon, news media owned by military contractors, and video games used as recruitment tools.
Forte: Video Propaganda: Human Terrain System on National Geographic
Blog Post, June, 10 2010
Maximilian Forte
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A bizarre piece, featuring the two program managers of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain system, as nearly silent or unnamed actors in this staged photo op to advertise the program to American and international audiences. Another instance of the mains...
Pilger: The Black Art Of ‘Master Illusions’
Commentary, June, 03 2010
John Pilger
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How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”. In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive...
Vltchek: Discredited And Servile – Western Mass Media Perverts Information About Thailand
Commentary, May, 25 2010
Andre Vltchek
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Rebellion had been crushed and Bangkok streets were covered with blood, mostly that of poor Thai peasants with their origins in the country's north or northeast. Armored vehicles had crashed through the barricades made of old tires and bamboo ro...
Friel: Bjorn Lomborg on CO2
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Howard Friel
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Politically and scientifically speaking, the most important fact to know about global warming is that the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions very steeply and very quickly, despite the fact that this is probably the most complicated and com...
