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Biden: Cheney ‘not entitled to re-write history’
David Edwards and Gavin Dahl/Raw Story
The Sunday morning talk shows heated up this morning with Vice President Joe Biden firing back at former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticisms.
Earlier, Cheney told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Biden was “dead wrong” in his recent assertion that a 9/11-style attack wasn’t likely in the near future. Biden responded on [...]
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Shorter Question Everything
Haiti
Haitian authorities say more than 150,000 bodies have been buried in Haiti since the devastating January 12th earthquake. Haiti’s Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue suggested the death toll could rise to 300,000. Lassegue said, “Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble.” As many as 800,000 Haitians are now homeless in the capital [...]
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Nation: The Haiti Haters
Amy Wilentz/The Nation
The Haitian tragedy has opened up a whole new industry for what I call the genteel racist point of view. A week into the crisis I heard an otherwise intelligent report on NPR in which the correspondent opened her piece from Port-au-Prince by declaring that it “is not falling into a…pit of violence,” [...]
Hey Corporate Media, “Looting” Is a Racist Code Word
Chloe Cockburn, Blog of Rights / Alternet
When the news camera captures footage of a Haitian man taking rice, what does it show? Theft? Survival? What if that man is white?
In the aftermath of the earthquake, there have been numerous reports of dangerous looting in the capital. (See examples here, here, and here). The Washington [...]
Hiding War Horrors from Americans
consortiumnews.com/Sherwood Associates
Editor’s Note: Propaganda is not just about lying, indeed outright falsehoods are a minor part. Effective propaganda is about highlighting favorable information and hiding the negative. And it’s especially effective if the work is done by a supposedly “free” media.
Legendary psy-warrior Edward Lansdale once said the trick of great propaganda was not to plant [...]
Greenwald: Helen Thomas deviates from the terrorism script
Glenn Greenwald/Salon
(updated below)
Following up on Thursday’s post concerning our collective refusal to discuss how American actions and policies fuel Terrorism: at a White House press conference yesterday with Janet Napolitano and John Brennan, Helen Thomas shows — yet again — that she’s one of the very few White House reporters willing to deviate [...]
French Media Caught Red-Handed: Honduras Coup Protest Photo Presented as Iranian
Global Research / Indymedia UK
The German daily Junge Welt reported [1] that the French public national television channel “France 2″ has diffused an image of a protest in Honduras against the June 2009 military coup and portrayed it as young Iranians resisting security forces during the Ashura day protests in Tehran.
This abuse of images was [...]
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Greenwald: Inside the mind of Newsweek on “terrorism”