How Israel's PR controls the media (video)

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; documentary directors Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff (mediaed.org, IMDB.com)

Why is the U.S. public unaware of the war crimes our government (military-industrial complex) and Israel are committing even though it's in the news all day long? Careful public relations, also known as well crafted propaganda. Jahlly and Ratzkoff explain in Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land.

This video shows how the foreign policy interests of American political elites -- working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies -- influence U.S. news reporting about the Middle East conflict.

Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land" provides a brief historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, [controlled] American public opinion.

- Exerpted from Media Education Foundation

What will it take to get the U.S. public's attention about our and Israel's crimes? Topless FEMEN protesters conduct a "Slut Walk" in Tel Aviv, May 10, 2014 calling attention to religious sexism, patriarchy, militarism, and crimes against humanity.

 

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land:

U.S. Media on Israel-Palestine

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage.
 

It focuses on the "crisis" [actually Israel's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity] in the Middle East, zeroing in on distortions in U.S. coverage reinforce false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
 

I did what you said. - You'll get over it.

This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites -- big oil, a need to have an American military base in the region, and others -- work in combination with Israeli public relations (PR) strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from Israel is reported.

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how -- through the use of language, framing and context -- the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied territories appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

Jewish-Israeli occupiers demand Muslim-Arab blood: All the U.S. gets in its mainstream media are slanted, spun, pro-Israeli images, explanations, and crafted talking points (newser.com)

 
The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics.

Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky. More

Arresting and imprisoning children 10 and older: Why is this Palestinian kid dressed in "concentration camp" garb being manhandled by a heavily armed adult Israeli militant?

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The Truth About Ukraine (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Christopher Greene, Alternative Media (AMTV)

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Misleading Mainstream Media Reports PROMOTE war:
Russia sending tanks across border into Ukraine, Kiev says

Sergei L. Loiko, Carol J. Williams

Russia goes back on its promise to secure its border with Ukraine against further infusions of weapons and fighters. Ukrainian troops destroy some of the Russian convoy.

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Christian Zionists and US lawmakers

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Brazil protesters disrupt Rio military parade 2013 (Al Jazeera America)

Salute to the Military (sutra)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Right Livelihood (ATI)

(BY) In this deleted "Family Guy" scene, football hero, ill-used "patriot," and friendly-fire victim Pat Tillman is doomed by his ignorance and hatred of 9/11 and craving for revenge. It was later revealed that he was posthumously exploited by the military for propaganda purposes.

Where are my heroes after raping and killing each other and our enemies? (Invisible War)

I'll kill you, you stupid &$#@%head! - Don't, I'm injured (Johnathan Hobin/In the Playroom)

  

Want to become a soldier? Reconsider

Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson version, "Discourse to Yodhajiva the Warrior" (SN 42.3)
Yodhajiva the headman went to see the [Buddha]. Having bowed, he sat respectfully to one side. While sitting there, he said to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, I have heard that it has been passed down by the ancient teaching lineage of warriors (the kshatriya caste) that:

(David Swanson/War is a Lie)

"'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting in battle, with the breakup of the body, after death, that warrior is reborn in the company of light beings (devas) slain in battle.'

"What does the Blessed One have to say about that?"
 
"Enough, headman! Set that aside. Do not ask this question."
 
But a second time and a third time Yodhajiva the headman asked.

"Headman, apparently I have not been able to get by saying, 'Enough, headman! Set that aside. Do not ask this question.' So I will answer directly: When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, his mind is already seized, debased, and misdirected by the thought (intention): 'May these beings be struck down, slaughtered, annihilated, utterly destroyed! May they cease to exist!'

(TM) Stewie talks to the famous WW II veteran who did as ordered and

dropped an atomic bomb on the innocent civilians of Hiroshima, Japan

"Fight War, Not Wars" (tcdailyplanet.net)

"If others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting in this way in battle, with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the hell called the realm of those slain in battle.

"But if he holds such a view as this:  'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting in battle, with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the company of light beings slain in battle,' that is his wrong view (miccha ditthi, the antithesis of right view).
 

Kill and keep killing till we tell you to stop!!

"I tell you, there are two destinations for a person with wrong view. Either one is destined for hell or the animal realm."
 
When this was said, Yodhajiva the headman burst into tears and sobbed. [The Buddha then said:] "That is what I could not get by you saying, 'Enough, headman! Set that aside. Do not ask me that.'"
 

"I am not crying, venerable sir, because of what the Blessed One said, but because I have been deceived, cheated, and fooled for a long time by that ancient teaching lineage of warriors."

(The View) Gov. Jesse Ventura outs government pro-war conspiracies

Part I: America's glorious "Invisible War" - women in the barracks

"... I don't think they [US military and politicians] are very honorable people. I know they were lying.... we feel that there could have been something else that happened to Pat [Tillman] but -- I mean, we can't prove it. Every bit of evidence has been destroyed. ... Rumsfeld, Abizaid, Myers, and Brown collectively said, 'I don't know, I don't recall, I don't remember' about 82 times, and no one on that panel pressed them. No one did their research." - Pat Tillman's mother Mary on CNN's "Larry King Live." Filmmaker Michael Moore also wants the truth.

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Mainstream Media: "Shadows of Liberty" (video)

Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; DemocracyNow.org; ShadowsOfLiberty.org

Freedom of speech? Not in mainstream

The documentary "Shadows of Liberty" had a very quiet US premiere at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver. The mainstream media made sure of that. Using individual cases of journalists whose attempts to tell startling stories about why things really happen only to be muzzled by corporations and the US government, the film shows how a corporate-controlled media silences the truth about issues ranging from war to labor abuses. In one instance, CBS refused to re-air an investigation by the prize-winning journalist Roberta Baskin on Nike's use of sweatshop labor in Vietnam.

 
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National Conference for Media Reform

LONDON - WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Julian Assange, CorpWatch's executive director P. Chatterjee, documentary filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay, and the Bertha Foundation's director of legal advocacy Jen Robinson discuss disintegrating press freedoms in the mainstream media following the private UK premiere of SHADOWS OF LIBERTY. This powerful documentary takes an intrepid journey through the dark corridors of the American corporate media landscape, where global media conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power. They have the power to make war, prevent peace, and affect policies of every kind. The overwhelming collective power of these firms raises troubling questions about democracy.
 
The film features Danny Glover, Amy Goodman, Julian Assange, Dan Rather, Daniel Ellsberg, David Simon, Roberty McChesney, Roberta Baskin, and Dick Gregory, among others. Get involved in media reform; subscribe to newsletter or follow on Facebook (Shadows of Liberty -Movie) and Twitter (@Shadows_Doc).

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