Sensationalist Media Miss the Mark by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
April 10, 2012

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March Madness comes once a year. Media Madness is year-round. What the mass media choose to cover and feature try to turn the priorities of any sane society upside down.

People of vice, war, money, spectator sports and business receive media attention – oftentimes ad nausem. People of virtue, peace, civics, health, labor and community engagement have to beg for media attention. Which of these two groups represents the most basic values of a civilized society that would restrain the excesses of the other group? You can guess!

Søren Kierkegaard: Sea of Faith (1984)

Soren Kierkegaard studying (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Where Are All the Bodies Buried? by Michael Parenti (2000)

by Michael Parenti
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Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
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Z magazine, June 2000
April 13, 2012

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NATO commits acts of aggression

In March 1999, NATO forces launched an 11-week nonstop aerial attack upon Yugoslavia that violated the UN charter, NATO’s own charter, the U.S. Constitution, and the War Powers Act. Yugoslavia had invaded no UN or NATO member. The Congress had made no declaration of war. No matter. The “moral imperatives” and humanitarian concerns were heralded as being so overwhelming that legalities would have to be brushed aside. Here were mass atrocities perpetrated by the demonic Serbs and their fiendish leader, Slobodan Milosevic not seen since the Nazis rampaged across Europe; something had to be done-so we were told.

Weird Winter – Mad March

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Apr 16, 2012 by greenman3610

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The 1979 Iranian U.S. Embassy Siege and Hostage Crisis. Was it a Covert CIA Operation? by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
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East Africa
April 13, 2012

It was one of America’s most humiliating episodes during the past 50 years, ranking along with the hurried retreat from Saigon in 1975 and the Bay of Pigs fiasco off Cuba in 1961 – the US embassy siege in Tehran when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days in Iran.

Now, more than three decades later, former hostages are seeking legal damages against the government of Iran for their ordeal. One of the Americans who had been held captive told the New York Times:

Israel Denies Entry to Hundreds in Day of Action + Flytilla Protesters Arrested

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Apr 16, 2012 by TheRealNews

Dozens arrested in an international day of solidarity where 1500 activists tried to land in Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport to travel to the occupied Palestinian territories.

First They Come For the Muslims by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
April 16, 2012