NDAA on trial: Obama Administration fights ban on indefinite detention of Americans

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Aug 13, 2012 by RTAmerica

White House lawyers have been recently defending the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. They have been arguing that jailing Americans indefinitely without trial in some instances is necessary for the safety and security of the country.Tangerine Bolen of Revolution Truth and a plaintiff in the case against the NDAA joins RT’s Kristine Frazao to discuss the matter.

Chris Hedges: Systems of Power Want to Control Systems of Communication

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with Chris Hedges
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July 20, 2012

Jul 20, 2012 by wearechange

At an Occupy event in Philadelphia, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange runs into Pulitzer Prize journalist Chris Hedges and gets his take on the state of journalism today.

Top UK Award Goes to Journalist Who Exposed Secrets of Afghanistan War

Congratulations to Gareth Porter
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The Martha Gellhorn Trust
Press Release
June 15, 2012

Gareth Porter, the Washington-based journalist, has won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for 2012 for his investigation of US ‘killing strategy’ in Afghanistan, including the targeting of people through their mobile phones.

The judges said: ‘In a series of extraordinary articles, Gareth Porter has torn away the facades of the Obama administration and disclosed a military strategy that amounts to a war against civilians.’

Chris Hedges: Those who are most attracted to war are the most incapable of love

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with Chris Hedges
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April 13, 2012

Apr 12, 2012 by UCtelevision

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Author and journalist Christopher Hedges speaks of the despair, destruction, love and truth that he found during his long career of covering wars and social justice throughout the world. Hedges is interviewed by Dean Nelson as part of the 17th annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University.

John Pilger: Real Journalism

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Abirproduction on Mar 19, 2012

Researched, Produced and Directed by Abir Alsayed

A part of Asdekaa Al Arab series

Chris Hedges and David Zucchino On War Reporting

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with Chris Hedges
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Feb. 15, 2012

uncjschool on Feb 15, 2012

War correspondents Chris Hedges and David Zucchino, a 1973 graduate of the UNC journalism school, had a discussion with UNC J-school students on Feb. 13, 2012, in Carroll Hall.

Hedges spoke later that evening as part of the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Vision Series.

What Will We Do Now Without The Fearless Leader? by Daniel N. White

by Daniel N. White
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December 29, 2011

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I mean the United States, not North Korea, of course. The Koreans will get along if not fine, at least no worse than before Kim Jong Il’s recent departure from the scene. No, the United States faces a crisis it is completely unprepared for. We have had entirely too much invested in demonizing Kim and his nation and what with the recent exit of Gadaffi from the scene, and Saddam’s and Osama’s too, all the leading bugbears of the US’ national security (read: permanent war fear and of late permanent war) state are gone, and we must ask ourselves what are we to do now, with them all gone? Who can replace them? How can we replace them in time to keep people from asking embarrassing questions about our gross overexpenditures on our transparently incompetent and incapable military?

John Pilger: The Reason for WikiLeaks – Justice

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One of the things that almost has never come out of the generally appalling media coverage of Julian and Wikileaks, is the REASON for Wikileaks.

It had a moral base. It was about Justice. He wrote it on the home page of the first Wikileaks. It wasn’t necessarily finally defined, but to use that expression… he nailed his colours and the colours of Wikileaks to the mast.

Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism’s Role is Taboo by John Pilger

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By John Pilger
Information Clearing House
www.johnpilger.com
Dec. 2, 2011

On 22 May 2007, the Guardian’s front page announced: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which included “forging ties with al-Qaida elements”. The coming “showdown” was an Iranian plot to influence a vote in the US Congress. Based entirely on briefings by anonymous US officials, Tisdall’s “exclusive” rippled with lurid tales of Iran’s “murder cells” and “daily acts of war against US and British forces”. His 1,200 words included just 20 for Iran’s flat denial.

Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress

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with Chris Hedges
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August 24, 2011

The Leonard Lopate Show
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Former New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges tells us what he calls “the myth of human progress” and looks at the underlying causes of global conflict.

Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War, interviewed by Luis Fernando Cárdenas

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by Luis Fernando Cárdenas
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August 17, 2011

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Guernica: Journalists in Mexico live in constant danger. A photojournalist from the newspaper El Diario was recently murdered in Juárez. The newspaper responded by printing an op-ed piece addressed to the cartels titled, “What do you want from us?” Can you speculate who is responsible for these attacks against the media and why?

The Myth of The New York Times, in Documentary Form by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
July 8, 2011

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The documentary film “Page One: Inside the New York Times” is an infomercial for The New York Times. It says nothing about the internal dynamics of the institution. It fails to portray the titular Page 1 process. Most of the film is devoted instead to profiling the paper’s quirky media reporter, David Carr. This focus on Carr, who is at times engaging and at times pedantic, leaves viewers as ignorant about the workings of the paper as when they went into the theater.

Amy Goodman Hosts Discussion With WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange and Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek

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www.democracynow.org
July 2, 2011

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Within the past year, whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released three of the most significant leaks of classified information in history: the Iraq War Logs, the Guantánamo Bay files and Cablegate. Since then the world has undoubtedly changed. Ambassadors have resigned amid scandals exposed by leaked cables; governments have ordered reviews of their computer security; and pro-democracy movements have swept across the Middle East and North Africa—in part fueled, some believe, by WikiLeaks revelations.

In This New World Lies Will Become True by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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June 27, 2011

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I visited the Hartford Courant as a high school student. It was the first time I was in a newsroom. The Connecticut paper’s newsroom, the size of a city block, was packed with rows of metal desks, most piled high with newspapers and notebooks. Reporters banged furiously on heavy typewriters set amid tangled phone cords, overflowing ashtrays, dirty coffee mugs and stacks of paper, many of which were in sloping piles on the floor. The din and clamor, the incessantly ringing phones, the haze of cigarette and cigar smoke that lay over the feverish hive, the hoarse shouts, the bustle and movement of reporters, most in disheveled coats and ties, made it seem an exotic, living organism. I was infatuated.

Bill Moyers: Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power

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Democracy Now!
June 8, 2011

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In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we are joined by legendary journalist Bill Moyers, a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, a publisher of Newsday, and senior correspondent for CBS News. Public television is where he has made his home, producing many groundbreaking shows and winning more than 30 Emmy Awards.