Wereldtribunaal: Media Medeplichtig aan Misdrijven tegen de Menselijkheid by Inge Van de Merlen Wednesday, Feb. 02, 2005 at 7:16 PM |
In het kader van het World Tribunal on Irak zal van 10 tot 13 februari 2005 een sessie plaatsvinden in Rome. Onderwerp van deze sessie draait rond de medeplichtigheid van de (mainstream) media bij de agressieve oorlogsvoering van de regering van de Verenigde Staten en hun coalitiepartners tegen de bevolking van Irak. |
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Thank you Inge by Dirk Adriaensens Thursday, Feb. 03, 2005 at 6:27 PM |
dirk.adriaensens@skynet.be |
As part of the organising committee af the BRussells Tribunal and the World Tribunal on Iraq, I'd like to thank you for this valuable contribution. Indeed, this particular session is very important. It will be the first time that the mainstream media will stand trial, because they actively contributed to the war in Iraq, to repeat the lies and to prevent the truth from being published. They are complicit in creating the conditions for an invasion and for the continuing occupation. We're glad that there are journalists like Dahr Jamail who keep on exposing the terrible truth about this occupation.
Quote of the week. About the media:
"Here's the strange thing: In a world (.....) where we happen to be ruled by the greatest geopolitical dreamers and gamblers in our history, our demobilized media treats the world, if at all, as a set of hopeless fragments and just doesn't consider puzzling them together part of the job description. If you want to grasp our world as it is, you might actually have to click off that TV, use your local paper to wrap the fish, and head for the Internet."
source: Tom Engelhardt: "A Demobilized Press in a Global Free-Fire Zone" http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2144