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About Danny Schechter

Danny Schechter edits Mediachannel.org and blogs at newsdissector.net. He investigated financial fraud in The Crime of Our Time (Disinformation). His latest book is Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela (Madibabook.com. Comments to dissector@mediachannel.org

Ghosts of Vietnam Heard Again: Which Should We Listen To?

Danny Schechter: Whose voice should we listen to? Rory Kennedy with her slick and costly archive-footage based mockumentary of history, or Tiana who is struggling to bring Vietnamese voices and a deliberately buried history to life?

By Danny Schechter posted on December 19, 2014

Body Counts Rise As Chaos Deepens: Is There A Way Out?

Body Counts Rise

Danny Schechter: Its almost as if the US strategists have beheaded themselves when it comes to fashioning a sensible strategy that could work instead of the current one that is guaranteed not to.

By Danny Schechter posted on September 18, 2014

Oh, Ye Masters of War: Marking 9/11 Again With A New Dragon To Slay

Marking 9-11 Anniversary

Danny Schechter: That old “bomb them back into the stone age” strategy that failed time after time is back because the Pentagon doesn’t know what else to do.

By Danny Schechter posted on September 11, 2014

Just What We Need: Another War

Invading Syria Next

Danny Schechter: Why look back? No one wants to learn anything! Iraq 2 was a disaster. Can we expect Iraq 3 to be any better?

By Danny Schechter posted on August 29, 2014

Outrage: On the Beheading of Our Media Brother James Foley

James Foley Beheaded

Danny Schechter: They do their killing with the kind of “terrible swift sword” that we sing about in the Battle Hymn of The Republic, while we prefer no direct contact with our victims, relying on so-called “surgical” air strikes and drone attacks.

By Danny Schechter posted on August 22, 2014

Back In Iraq: We Only Want To Save You

Back In Iraq

Danny Schechter: Suddenly, the country we never wanted to have to think about again is back in the news and on our military agenda. So, after a few denials that troops would not, never, and no way be sent, sure’nuff, U.S, boots are back on the ground, but to play a very different “mission.”

By Danny Schechter posted on August 15, 2014

The Iron Dome Inside Heads of Israel’s Leaders

iron dome missile defense

Danny Schechter: It may not be much of a stretch to look at the “Iron Dome” counter-missile system utilized by the Israeli forces as a perfect metaphor for the men authorizing its deployment and use, the iron domes of the heads who head up Israel’s military, and orchestrate its most assuredly not defensive war against Gaza.

By Danny Schechter posted on July 30, 2014

How Perception Management Works in Israel’s War on Gaza

Israel War on Gaza

Danny Schechter: In all of its conflicts, Tel Aviv invents and then seizes a constantly reinforced “moral” high ground, immediately positioning itself as a victim, and defending its actions as defensive.

By Danny Schechter posted on July 19, 2014

The World Cup Spilleth Over: As the Soccer Games End, Political Ones Begin

World Cup

Danny Schechter: On a symbolic level, Brazil’s bashing at the feet of Germany using bum rush tactics compared to the Nazi “Blitzgrieg” brought smiles to Old Europe, and pain to a nation struggling with massive poverty and inequality.

By Danny Schechter posted on July 11, 2014

Sunshine On A Cloudy Day: A Screed

Danny Schechter: It's hard to keep a good conspiracy theory going when the espionage business seems to be having such hard times too, caught up in its own Dante-like circles of paranoia, unable to forecast much and doomed to making old mistakes.

Danny Schechter: It’s hard to keep a good conspiracy theory going when the espionage business seems to be having such hard times too, caught up in its own Dante-like circles of paranoia, unable to forecast much and doomed to making old mistakes.

By Danny Schechter posted on May 31, 2014

Can We Stop America’s Surveillance State?

American Surveillance State

Danny Schechter: Just as the publication of the Pentagon Papers in l971 did not end the Vietnam War, the leaks from a world of questionable ‘intelligence” has only made our spymasters more determined.

By Danny Schechter posted on May 18, 2014

Stressed: What Are They Trying To Tell Us?

Danny Schechter: Despite all the “regulations” in the Dodd Frank Financial “reform” and the Volcker Rule and The Fed’s “oversight:’ the banks seem to have free reign to do what they will despite the financial crisis, and the pathetic “recovery.”

By Danny Schechter posted on March 31, 2014

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