Corporate Media

Published on Friday, July 1, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap

In the year and a half since the Citizens United decision, Americans from all walks of life have become concerned about corporate dominance of our government and our society as a whole. In Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court (in an act of outrageous “judicial activism) gutted existing campaign finance laws by ruling that corporations, wealthy individuals, and other entities can spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.

Throughout the country people have responded by organizing against “corporate personhood,” a court-created precedent that illegitimately gives corporations rights that were intended for human beings.

This is from interpress check it out:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53790 -Rick

By Gareth Porter and Jim Lobe*

WASHINGTON, Dec 6, 2010 (IPS) - The dominant theme that emerged in U.S. media coverage of the first round of Wikileaks diplomatic cables last week was that Arab regimes in the Gulf - led by Saudi Arabia - shared Israel's view that Iran's nuclear programme had to be stopped by military force, if necessary.

The New York Times generated that narrative with a front- page story featuring an alleged quote by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urging the United States to "cut off the head of the snake", as well as other statements by Gulf Arab leaders suggesting support for military action.

Check out this good article about the biased media coverage of Wikileak's Afghan War Diary: http://tiresiasspeaks.wordpress.com/

Here is a link to Danny Glover interview on Al Jazeera:

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/2010/06/2010627721966...

This is from Center for Biological Diversity.  -Rick

Even as the
BP spill gushes millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the
agency tasked with overseeing offshore drilling is continuing to exempt
dangerous new drilling operations from environmental review. Since the
BP oil-rig explosion on April 20, an investigation has revealed that the
U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service has approved

By Chris Hedges

Next week, Seattle will get our chance to weigh in on the future of the Internet, as the FCC returns to Seattle with a pair of events focused on preserving an open Internet.

On Tuesday evening, Apr 27, FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker and staff will be featured guests at a community conversation on open Internet and net neutrality, organized by Reclaim the Media. The event begins at 6:30pm at Asian Counseling and Referral Service, 3639 Martin Luther King Way in Seattle. Details here.

AP

Blood is seen near a shoe and a hairband inside a
room where five members of an Afghan family were killed near Gardez, in
Paktia province, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010.

(updated below - Update II)

by Prof. Marc Herold

Examining
a microcosm can shed light on the larger reality. I have chosen to
analyze a small mountain hamlet, Chagoti Ghar (Chergotah), located some
forty kilometers east of Khost city in eastern Afghanistan in a time
frame separated by eight and a third years – November 23rd 2001 and
March 24th 2010. Both times, two Afghan civilians perished as a result
of foreign occupation fire. In both instances, the U.S corporate media
was silent. Both times, to pierce the veil of silence spun by the
American military industrial media information complex (MIMIC) a person
had to turn to independent, regional media; in November 2001 to the

By Malini Shankar

BANGALORE, India, Mar 3, 2010 (IPS) - Community radio is moving from the margins to the mainstream in many
countries in Asia, carving out spaces from where they respond to public needs
ranging from disaster management to gender awareness, cultural identity and
belonging.

This was proven in Papua New Guinea in January, during a tsunami
triggered by an earthquake.

"No adult died because adults knew that when the sea withdraws (from the
shore), it portends the arrival of a tsunami, and all the adults fled to higher
ground," said Aloysius Laukai of New Dawn FM station. However, "the

Interpress can be a good source of international news not found elsewhere. -Rick

Published on Monday, February 15, 2010 by Al-Jazeera-English
Cuba's Aid to Haiti Ignored by the US Media?

by Tom Fawthrop

Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims.

[After the quake struck, Haiti's first medical aid came from Cuba. (Gallo/Getty)]After the quake struck, Haiti's first medical aid came from Cuba. (Gallo/Getty)
Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck.

However, their pivotal work in the health sector has received scant media coverage.

WASHINGTON,
Dec 28 (IPS) - U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document
published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes
an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a
"neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according
to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.