16:22 http://rt.com/programs/breaking-set-summary/americans-living-misses-2013/ 5.) Gaza 4.) Afganistan 3.) Drones 2.) Bradley/Manning (War on Whistleblowers) 1.) NDAA (Biggest unmentioned attack on US civil liberties)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/ndaa-obama-indefinite-detention_n_2402601.html Where were those obstructionist republicans? You know, the ones who don't let anything pass?
Here's my measure for how a political story is covered: I ask myself, "How would it be covered if George W. Bush were president?" If it's the same, then I'm cool with it. If it's different than I call it out. Benghazi and the complete foreign policy failure of the Arab Spring are the two biggest underreported stories of 2012.
The real unreported/under reported news story list. Top Censored Stories of 2013 1. Signs of an Emerging Police State 2. Oceans in Peril 3. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Worse than Anticipated 4. FBI Agents Responsible for Majority of Terrorist Plots in the United States 5. First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions Loaned to Major Banks 6. Small Network of Corporations Run the Global Economy 7. 2012: The International Year of Cooperatives 8. NATO War Crimes in Libya 9. Prison Slavery in Today’s USA 10. HR 347 Would Make Many Forms of Nonviolent Protest Illegal 11. Members of Congress Grow Wealthier Despite Recession 12. US Joins Forces with al-Qaeda in Syria 13. Education “Reform” a Trojan Horse for Privatization 14. Who Are the Top 1 Percent and How Do They Earn a Living? 15. Dangers of Everyday Technology 16. Sexual Violence against Women Soldiers on the Rise and under Wraps 17. Students Crushed By One Trillion Dollars in Student Loans 18. Palestinian Women Prisoners Shackled during Childbirth 19. New York Police Plant Drugs on Innocent People to Meet Arrest Quotas 20. Stealing from Public Education to Feed the Prison-Industrial Complex 21. Conservatives Attack US Post Office to Break the Union and Privatize Postal Services 22. Wachovia Bank Laundered Money for Latin American Drug Cartels 23. US Covers up Afghan Massacre 24. Alabama Farmers Look to Replace Migrants with Prisoners 25. Evidence Points to Guantánamo Dryboarding http://www.projectcensored.org/
I would have thought the cover up of Lybia and how it is still being pushed away from the whitehouse..and where are all of the pundits looking to see if hillery really is ill..of has she been taken hostage..or is she ducking answering questions or has she been abducted by aliens, oh wait, she is a dem..
yeah...that pay ou tof pay offs would have been a big deal if a R had done that..that reminds me, I still want my free phone..
It's been a massive foreign policy failure for us and a domestic failure for those who wanted more human rights in those countries. Here's something you learn in any undergraduate international relations class: You don't allow a revolution to start without knowing what will replace it. We abandoned Mubarak and allowed Qaddafi to fall knowing the Muslim Brotherhood would take over Egypt (since they were the best organized political party) and knowing that there was a strong Al Qaeda presence in Libya. Jeanne Kirkpatrick wrote about this concept in "Dictatorships and Double Standards". The smart thing to do would have been to support Mubarak and the Egyptian military in the short term while working with them and other pro-democracy (i.e., anti-Islamist) leaders to transition to a less authoritarian Egypt that remained pro-Western. As for Qaddafi, we had neutered him and he was essentially acting as our ally in the War on Terror. Why get rid of him for parties we neither know or control? The Arab Spring will result in a less pro-Western, less free, more anti-Israeli, more unstable and more Islamist North Africa and Middle East. In other words, we have given a massive victory to the forces we have been fighting since 2001.
Maybe it's none of our business to allow or disallow or otherwise involve ourselves in other peoples' revolutions. OK, not maybe. Definitely.
I think I would add to the under-reported list the fact that the US taxpayers will gift the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt a quarter billion dollars worth of Abrams tanks and F16 fighters. Yay, let's arm our enemies! Go Blazers
Yep, you and I disagree about foreign policy, just like immigration policy. It's not like if we withdraw that no one won't step in, and their motives won't be as noble as ours (not that ours are pure, but they're a damn sight better than China's, Russia's or Iran's). Nature abhors a vacuum. The same issue occurs in international relations.
