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KoKo

(84,711 posts)
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 01:13 PM Jan 2015

"Democracy Now" & Glenn Greenwald Skewer MSM and their Terror "Experts"-- (Great Watch)

Glenn Greenwald on How to Be a Terror "Expert": Ignore Facts, Blame Muslims, Trumpet U.S. Propaganda
Published on Jan 13, 2015
http://democracynow.org - Who are the so-called terrorism experts? In the wake of the Paris attacks, the corporate media has once again flooded its news programs with pundits claiming authority on terrorism, foreign policy and world events. We discuss the growing and questionable field of "terrorism experts" with three guests: Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-founder of The Intercept; Lisa Stampnitzky, social studies lecturer at Harvard University and author of "Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented 'Terrorism'"; and Luc Mathieu, foreign affairs reporter for the French newspaper Libération.



See all Democracy Now! reports on “the war on terror” over the years
http://www.democracynow.org/topics/wa...



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ctsnowman

(1,903 posts)
1. This whole thing is a paper tiger
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 01:20 PM
Jan 2015

put together to justify spending 1 Trillion $ a year on complete BS. Meanwhile our future retirement security is being robbed and that will lead to countless real deaths.

bulloney

(4,113 posts)
2. That's about it in a nutshell, ctsnowman.
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 02:26 PM
Jan 2015

The MIC has had a history of creating boogeymen to scare us into accepting their outrageous budgets.

Request for increases in education, roads & infrastructure, workplace safety, food safety or whatever, and you get outrage. When the MIC ask for outrageous increases on top of the outrageous budgets they already have and the responses is: "How much do you want and how fast can we get it to you?"

Response to KoKo (Reply #7)

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
9. Uh Ohh...
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 08:27 PM
Jan 2015

This is personal.

Watch the Video....It's Really an Informative Watch. Good Stuff and if you have anything to say about your watch of it (other than personal attack) then please...feel free to post about the WATCH and not your own personal travails trying to do Personal Attacks woven into to a reply to a post as a Distraction.

and Good Cheer to You!

Response to KoKo (Reply #9)

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
15. see posts in thread. I was referring to the charlatan Greenwald, not DN
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 01:59 PM
Jan 2015

though DN does blow it from time to time by having these fakes on

libodem

(19,288 posts)
11. Nice to have my views legitimized
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 11:46 PM
Jan 2015

Sometimes I feel like such a big nut because I feel lied to and manipulated by the media and I have suspicion about their version of 'terror'.

It's nice to be validated with similar thinking.

Thanks Amy.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
13. Democracy NOw is probably the most honest news available. You can tell who
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 01:22 AM
Jan 2015

favors corporatism by who hates Democracy Now.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
20. K&R...because..if you didn't you might believe Glenn was "being obnoxious."
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 08:53 PM
Jan 2015

Just saying...according to another ongoing thread here.

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