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  By Peter Ford Published by GlobalResearch. Originally published by Patreon. Peter Ford will be speaking at Imperialism on trial, a series of speaking events being held in four cities in the United Kingdom in July 2018. The objective of this meeting is to show Syria in perspective. That is, Syria as she really is after eight years of war, not as she is almost universally portrayed in the West. A brave stand by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria over alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma. I shall look at the broad picture, but I want to zero in by dealing with the report presented yesterday by the Commission on Syria. I am not going to endorse that report but I want to begin by congratulating the Commission for standing firm and refusing to make premature pronouncements about the alleged use of prohibited weapons in Douma. In doing so...

    290475″ data-end=”1530428399″> Take a look at the short video below that Facebook suddenly sends me today, Saturday June 30, 2018 about my being so important for communities and how great Facebook is at creating a community feeling worldwide. Many thanks, I guess I am supposed to say. Well, I don’t. First, I detest these – I assume, artificial intelligence-based – videos where everything is soooo filled with stock photos, stock happy children, all dancing and having a gooood stock time and the stock music is just mechanical sing-along kitsch…OK, just had to let it out! Second, Facebook has destroyed the worldwide reach TFF and I had until about a year ago – thanks to their “algorithm”, political interference and tracking. We’re basically – that is, 90% or so – reaching only people in Denmark, Sweden and other Nordic countries and the rest outside. All the people I interacted...

  Af Jan Øberg Det er mere end 7 år siden volden brød ud i Syrien, i Daraa. Det er det, TV2 vil fortælle os om hér. Og tidligere har fortalt hér. Skønt de mange år har man desværre ikke lært den lektie, der er så enkel: At volden kun er symptom på underliggende konflikter. At det det handler om ikke er volden/krigshandlingerne – men det der har fået volden til at bryde ud. At man kun kan komme frem til en fredelige fremtid hvis man forstår hvad konflikterne handler om. At medier, der kun fokuserer på volden men ikke kerer sig det mindste om årsagerne til den, gør volden meget mere “naturlig” og “uundgåelig.” I det aktuelle tilfælde stiller TV2 sig helt klart på de unge mænds side, der med våben i hånd bekæmper deres egen regering. De fremstilles som helt, der har startet krigen og – ja, hvordan...

US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows By Tom Secker and Matthew Alford Published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project for people and planet. Support INSURGE to keep digging where others fear to tread. Tom Secker and Matthew Alford report on their astonishing findings from trawling through thousands of new US military and intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents reveal for the first time the vast scale of US government control in Hollywood, including the ability to manipulate scripts or even prevent films too critical of the Pentagon from being made — not to mention influencing some of the most popular film franchises in recent years. This raises new questions not only about the way censorship works in the modern entertainment industry, but also about Hollywood’s little-known role as a propaganda machine for the US national security apparatus. • • When...

Here is what the Guardian’s critic, Peter Bradshaw, has to say about it as film, as drama.  One wonders what role such a “Destiny Pictures” production has to do with handling and solving one of the most dangerous issues facing humanity – that of a country loaded with nuclear weapons telling a military dwarf that it should not have a single of these weapons? One wonders whether Mr. Trump, who during his long press conference after the meeting seemed very proud of having shown this on his iPad to the allegedly impressed Chairman Kim, sees this as a way of bonding? Whether it comes out of a reality  show master’s way of thinking – or it was made to impress Kim, alternatively threaten him into submission by a medium that is known to fascinate him: movies. At another level, we are here facing the complete intellectual decay of US international...

  Rusland og Vladimir Putin har en lang og væmmelig historie bag sig. Den ene fortælling efter den anden i de danske medier har berettet om forkastelig adfærd fra Rusland, som har manifesteret et stereotypt og negativt billede af vestens fjende nummer ét. I løbet af foråret 2018 har de danske medier fortalt om to sager, hvor anklager om, at Rusland står bag, er blevet bragt i de danske medier, uden at beviset er blevet fremført. Sergei og Julie Skripal, der blev forgiftet den 4. marts 2018 og senest den russiske journalist Arkadij Babtjenko, hvis død den 29. maj 2018 viste sig at være iscenesat. Spørgsmålet er, hvilken betydning har det for at skabe fred med Rusland? Det vil jeg forsøge at give et perspektiv på i denne artikel med udgangspunkt i begrebet ”Masterplots”. English summary at the bottom Denne analyse tager udgangspunkt i, at alle skriftlige gengivelser er en...

  Af Jan Øberg 11. juni 2018 Artiklen publiceredes den 10. jun i 2018 og overskriften må vække opmærksomhed. DR stiller ikke spørgsmålet om det er OK at USA har dem. Nej, man forklarer hvorfor det er OK. DR’s journalist trækker ikke substantielle modargumenter frem og interviewer kun en ekspert hvis udsagn bekræfter at det er OK. Efter hvad man kan søge sig frem til har journalist Josefine Hummelmose ingen som helst specielle kvalifikationer hvad angår disse spørgsmål. Hun tog studentereksamen i 2013 og er, iflg sin Facebook side, praktikant på DR og har arbejdet på bar og restaurant. Det er jo i og for sig helt i orden, men spørgsmålet er hvilken kvalitetskontrol DR bør udøve, hvilken mere erfaren kollega eller redaktør, der har set manuskriptet igennem inden publicering? Emnet er ikke ligegyldigt. Kvaliteten på en artikel om atomvåbnene må vel være mindst lige så høj som hvad der...

  Af Jan Øberg 11. juni 2018 Udenrigsudvalget have den 6. juni indkaldt to personer til at diskutere den så kontroversielle Magnitzky-lov om sanktioner mod russiske enkeltpersoner, der menes at have tjent penge i forbindelse med forbrydelser mod menneskerettigehderne. Det har DR skrevet om blandt andet den 13. marts 2018, der indledes sådan: “For at ramme Ruslands præsident, Vladimir Putin, skal man gå efter hans venner og allierede i form af rige russiske forretningsmænd og oligarker. Sådan lyder det fra en række af Folketingets større partier. Og i forlængelse af giftangrebet på den russiske eksspion Sergej Skripal og hans datter Julia i den engelske by Salisbury, som Storbritannien beskylder Rusland for at stå bag, bør Danmark netop indføre sanktioner mod særligt udvalgte russere tæt på Putin.” Det er altså Skripal-sagen, der har sat især Venstre igang. Skripal-sagen forsvandt pludselig fra medier skønt to i princippet dødsdømte pludseligt rejste sig fra...

  We must end this Russophobic insanity   By Jack F. Matlock, Jr. June 4, 2018 That saying – often misattributed to Euripides – comes to mind most mornings when I pick up The New York Times and read the latest “Russiagate” headlines, which are frequently featured across two or three columns on the front page above the fold. This is an almost daily reminder of the hysteria that dominates our Congress and much of our media. Originally published by The Nation on June 1, 2018, here The New York Times, of course, is not the only offender. Its editorial attitude has been duplicated or exaggerated by most other media outlets in the United States, electronic and print. Unless there is a mass shooting in progress, it can be hard to find a discussion of anything else on CNN. Increasingly, both in Congress and in our media, it has been...

  The violence in Syria has occupied the world since it broke out in 2011. The underlying conflicts and various explanations are still lost in the heated debate about the violence and who is to blame – both of which are much easier than understanding this hugely complex conflict formation in a longer time and space perspective. Teachers in international politics, activists and journalists would do wise in trying to find pedagogical examples of just how differently the same problem can actually be perceived. This edition of BBC’s “Hard Talk” could be used in classrooms – for a better understanding of why we still don’t understand much of the underlying issues in the case of Syria. This – indeed hard – discussion is between two men who both have knowledge, passion and self-esteem. They are also both arguing well their viewpoints – which are about as different as can be...

  Af Jesper Munk Jakobsen* 23. april 2018 Danmark har ikke tradition for at redde civile menneskers liv i Mellemøsten, når vi involverer os i konflikter ved at anvende militær. Regeringen bakker op om endnu en militæraktion i Mellemøsten, og nu står den danske befolkning igen som statister i en film, som har været spillet gentagne gange de sidste 16 år. Vesten griber til missiler og affyrer dem med besked om, at de redder endnu en befolkning i Mellemøsten. Det er dermed ikke uvant territorium for de danske medier, at Danmark bakker op om militæraktioner i Mellemøsten. Ifølge Anders Samuelsens Tweet den 12. april er det for de civile syreres skyld, at Danmark nu støtter op om et missilangreb i Syrien. Med Irak-krigen i frisk erindring vil jeg påstå, at udenrigsministerens påstand om, at man hjælper de civile i Syrien ved at affyre 105 missiler, kunne udfordres af den danske...

By Adam Johnson FAIR Originally published by FAIR on April 18, 2018 here “Only…with the departure of the Assad regime, will it be possible to ensure that Syrians do not suffer more atrocities,” the Washington Post (4/14/18) editorialized.     A survey by FAIR of the top 100 papers in the US by circulation found not a single editorial board opposed to Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syria. Twenty supported the strikes, while six were ambiguous as to whether or not the bombing was advisable. The remaining 74 issued no opinion about Trump’s latest escalation of the Syrian war. This is fairly consistent with editorial support for Trump’s April 2017 airstrikes against the Syrian government, which saw only one editorial out of 47 oppose the bombing (FAIR.org, 4/11/17). The single paper of dissent from last year, the Houston Chronicle, didn’t publish an editorial on last week’s bombing. Seven of the...