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?
Body Counts Rise As Chaos Deepens: Is There A Way Out?
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.
Oh, Ye Masters of War: Marking 9/11 Again With A New Dragon To Slay
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.
Just What We Need: Another War
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?
Outrage: On the Beheading of Our Media Brother James Foley
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.
Back In Iraq: We Only Want To Save You
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.”
The Iron Dome Inside Heads of Israel’s Leaders
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.
How Perception Management Works in Israel’s 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.
The World Cup Spilleth Over: As the Soccer Games End, Political Ones Begin
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.
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.
Can We Stop America’s 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.
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.”
