Category Independent Media
Corporate Media Beating the Drums of War — Mnar Muhawesh Speaks Out
Mnar Muhawesh, Founder and Editor In Chief, MintPress News, talked about how the tightly controlled corporate media ignores reporting and good journalism to follow directives on creating enemies and promoting wars. Almost all of the media outlets in this country are owned by a few corporations. Thank you so much for having me, I’m honored to be […]
▶ Corporate Media Beating The Drums Of War — Mnar Muhawesh Speaks Out
Mnar Muhawesh, Founder and Editor In Chief, MintPress News, talked about how the tightly controlled corporate media ignores reporting and good journalism to follow directives on creating enemies and promoting wars. Almost all of the media outlets in this country are owned by a few corporations. (See image below.) November 9, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Muhawesh is one […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Inside the American Terrordome
ISIS in Washington: America’s Soundtrack of Hysteria By Tom Engelhardt October 7, 2014 It happened so fast that, at first, I didn’t even take it in. Two Saturdays ago, a friend and I were heading into the Phillips Museum in Washington, D.C., to catch a show of neo-Impressionist art when we ran into someone he knew, heading […]
Evergreene Digest: Dennis Kucinich Blasts Congress For Lack Of War Vote
‘We Have A Constitutional Crisis’ American warmongers’ fatal conceit: The massive insecurity behind their calls for blood Who profits from our new war? Amanda Terkel, Huffington Post President Barack Obama had little trouble convincing Congress — even Republicans who usually fight tooth and nail against his policies — to go along with his plan to […]
How To Use Your Smartphone in a Protest
Practical tips, rights, and apps By Erin Kennedy www.thedialoguechronicle.com from PopularResistance.org August 27, 2014 Consider this scenario: Hundreds of people gathering at town square in the morning have become thousands by the afternoon. The chanting from the protesters is only drowned out by the growl of police tanks rolling up a residential street. No Justice! […]
▶ Jeff Nygaard talks about the media, Peacestock 2014
Since September of 1998 JEFF NYGAARD has published his own free newsletter on media, politics, and culture called “Nygaard Notes: Independent Periodic News and Analysis.” His work has appeared in the Star Tribune, Z Magazine, Counterpunch, Access Press, and various other publications. Jeff Nygaard Peacestock 2014 from Bill Sorem PRO Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up […]
▶ Israel vs Palestine – feat. DAM & Norman Finkelstein [RAP NEWS 24]
A quick look through satire at key issues re Palestine/Israel. Published on Apr 24, 2014 RAP NEWS 24: ISRAEL & PALESTINE [S02:E04]. Decades of failed peace talks have led nowhere; but do not lose hope just yet. Join Robert Foster as he attempts to host the first ever Middle East Peace Raps, using rhyme and reason to […]
▶ Truthout Interview: Mike Ludwig on TISA and Julian Assange
Truthout reporter Mike Ludwig talks to Ted Asregadoo about the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex documents that were recently published by WikiLeaks, and the current status of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. By Ted Asregadoo Truthout.org Video Interview 29 June 2014 Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, at a press conference during a court appearance […]
Somerset Bean: An infographic detailing Assange’s time in the Embassy and the circumstances that led to his asylum.
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Pressing Your Case: Nonviolent Movements and the Media (Parts 2, 3, and 4)
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) Introduction by Nada Alwadi Organizers and strategists of nonviolent movements often struggle in dealing with the mainstream news media. Some consider it their enemy, because coverage can be patchy or inaccurate. Others unrealistically expect the media to advocate for their causes. Yet few resources for activists have provided […]
Pressing Your Case: Nonviolent Movements and the Media (Part 1)
WHAT WORKS FOR THE MEDIA Organizing Notes May 22, 2014 The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) has helped develop “Pressing Your Case: Nonviolent Movements and the Media,” an educational video series to explore ways that nonviolent campaigns and movements can better relate to world media. It features four sessions, hosted by internationally known news […]
▶ Paul Jay: Break the Monopoly on Local TV News
TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay says we have to create local TV news that engages millions of people in finding solutions to the critical problems of our time This well-taken point about local media and worth watching. The statistics he cites re how people get their news reinforce the need for net neutrality, as the […]
▶ A model for independent funding: What Is the Financial Backing For The Real News?
Published on Mar 30, 2014 TRNN Hosts a discussion on the film ‘Shadows of Liberty’ The News Media: Censorship, Coverups and Corporate Control – Panel moderated by Paul Jay featuring film director JP Tremblay and journalists Kristina Borjesson and Glen Ford. watch full episode http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?o… TheRealNews Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is […]
MEETING WITH WHISTLEBLOWER JULIAN ASSANGE: FOUR WALLS
Threatened by the United States, the creator of WikiLeaks is confined for two years in a room at the Embassy of Ecuador in London. He received Eva Joly, who is working to break the deadlock. Friday, March 28, at the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Behind him a green background in front of which he filmed for […]
▶ An interview with Alexa O’Brien re Manning, WikiLeaks, and the U.S. government
Photo typischich.at An interview with Alexa O’Brien, who documented and researched, as an independent journalist, the entire Bradley (Chelsea) Manning trial and its wider context of a US inter-agency prosecution of WikiLeaks. Metahaven 2013. Produced in collaboration with Bureau Europa. Editor’s Comment: This video, recorded August 21, 2013, is full of information about the trial […]
▶ Creating a New Media Paradigm After Citizens United
Published on Mar 30, 2014 TRNN Hosts a discussion on the film ‘Shadows of Liberty’ The News Media: Censorship, Coverups and Corporate Control – Panel moderated by Paul Jay featuring film director JP Tremblay and journalists Kristina Borjesson and Glen Ford. watch full episode http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?o… TheRealNews Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the […]
Zeese and Flowers: People-Powered Media Mobilizes Masses While Mass Media Remains Silent
If we continue to build the independent, people-powered media, greater numbers of people will build up immunity to the destructive misinformation of corporate media. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers AlterNet February 7, 2014 CenterforMediaJustice.org Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/1000 Words In the last week, there were two major examples of how people-powered media can educate and […]
Bloggers To Receive Same Freedom of Speech Protection As Journalists, Court Rules
Reuters | By Dan Levine Posted: 01/17/2014 2:50 pm EST | Updated: 01/17/2014 4:50 pm EST HuffingtonPost SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 (Reuters) – A blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist and cannot be liable for defamation unless she acted negligently, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.Crystal Cox lost a defamation trial in […]
Nick Turse: America’s Black-Ops Blackout — Unraveling the Secrets of the Military’s Secret Military
“Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me. By Nick Turse January 7, 2014 TomDispatch.com Click here to read Tom Engelhardt’s introduction. More than a month before, I had called U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with a […]
William Rivers Pitt | Tonight, I Raise a Glass
WILLIAM RIVERS PITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:52 truthout.org Tonight, I raise a glass to many upon many, and to many more again. I raise a glass to those who ran to the sound and the smoke and the screams and the blood on Boylston Street in Boston, to do what […]
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