‘The Techniques Rumsfeld Was Using Were Designed to Get False Information’
“A prosecutor has to be appointed because it’s open and notorious criminality at the highest levels of government.”
William Dodge on Nestle Slave Labor, Michael Ratner on Donald Rumsfeld
Nestle’s profitability relies on a chocolate supply chain that includes literal slave labor in the Ivory Coast.
FAIR TV: PBS and Koch, Guatemala and the U.S. Role and Rumsfeld Meets the Press
This week: PBS won’t be showing us the documentary Citizen Koch–for some very dubious reasons. Also: The New York Times points out that the U.S. role in supporting genocide in Guatemala was hardly discussed at the trial; the same goes for U.S. media coverage of that trial. And Donald Rumsfeld goes on Meet the Press […]
Sunday Morning Torture
It’s bad enough that corporate media are having such an ill-informed debate about whether torturing some prisoners helped find Osama bin Laden. But considering whom the media invite to this debate, it’s probably not a surprise. Take yesterday’s Sunday shows (please!). On NBC‘s Meet the Press, Obama national security adviser Thomas Donilon basically refused to […]
NYT Nails Donald Rumsfeld!
The New York Times stuck it to the former Defense secretary in a Sunday magazine interview: People sometimes call you a war criminal. Does that bother you? For the record, Rumsfeld did seem slightly bothered, because it’s “totally untrue. And life goes on.”
Michael Ratner on detainee abuse report, Alfie Kohn on education nominee
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin121908 Michael Ratner and Alfie Kohn @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin121908.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: When the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a report finding former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other high officials responsible for abusive treatment of detainees in Guantánamo, Iraq and Afghanistan—with few exceptions, the media played the story down, preferring, for instance, […]
Who Gets to Speak: Iraq, Afghanistan and the NY Times
The New York Times‘ Week in Review section yesterday (11/23/08) gathered a group of op-eds under the heading “Transitions,” which they described as “a series of Op-Ed articles by experts on the most formidable issues facing the new president.” The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the topics under examination; we’ve examined who gets to […]
