Lawson's Description: "The blood of the thousands of Palestinians who have been killed by the so-called Israel Defence Forces since the beginning of the siege of Gaza, stains the hands of each and every politician who has done nothing to censure Israel for this cruel and illegal act of virtual imprisonment, or who has taken any kind of bribe to bolster his or her election-campaign coffers, in return for turning their backs on the quite obvious fact that Apartheid Israel has never had any intention other than to genocide the Palestinian people. "
References and source links are at the video page.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
True Lies and Reel Bad Arabs - ClandesTime 033
"Pearse Redmond of Porkins Policy Radio joined us again to talk about the the portrayal of Arabs in Hollywood. We talk about the documentary Reel Bad Arabs, which details much of the stereotyping of Arabs in popular movies, and also the film True Lies as an example of these trends. We look at some of the limits in the analysis offered by Reel Bad Arabs, the military involvement in making True Lies, and the careers of the actors who played the two main Arab characters in the film -- Art Malik, who seems to specialise in playing terrorists, and Grant Heslov who won an Oscar for producing Argo."
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Monday, July 28, 2014
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Storm Clouds Gathering, MH17, and You
Need a break from Gaza stuff? I would think so by now. (Don't worry; Max on Gaza will appear again this coming week.)
Our friends over at Storm Clouds Gathering released a video on Malaysia Airlines' MH17 today. It's very timely information, so I'm letting them take the stage today. Below I'm embedding the video and then putting a link to their transcription of the video script (which has links to their sources), but--quoting them--this is why I'm doing it:
"This video is particular in that it has many layers of information. This layering was necessary to accommodate details we received while in the later stages. To fully understand it you will need to watch it more than once and pause at several points. The video however did not have room for other sources, video clips and commentary which we have included in the written transcript, so you will need to visit the written version as well if you want to see the full picture.
Initially we considered doing a full analysis of the various theories and debunking those that were false, but in the end we realized that there is far too much disinfo to cover it within a reasonable time frame (the video is already over 14 minutes long). Instead we will deal with those theories in a dedicated article later."
That's a level of dedication to discipline and integrity that is not as commonplace as it ought to be, which is why I favor them and include their stuff whenever I can. Watch the video, and then read the transcript. You'll be better for it.
The transcript is here.
Our friends over at Storm Clouds Gathering released a video on Malaysia Airlines' MH17 today. It's very timely information, so I'm letting them take the stage today. Below I'm embedding the video and then putting a link to their transcription of the video script (which has links to their sources), but--quoting them--this is why I'm doing it:
"This video is particular in that it has many layers of information. This layering was necessary to accommodate details we received while in the later stages. To fully understand it you will need to watch it more than once and pause at several points. The video however did not have room for other sources, video clips and commentary which we have included in the written transcript, so you will need to visit the written version as well if you want to see the full picture.
Initially we considered doing a full analysis of the various theories and debunking those that were false, but in the end we realized that there is far too much disinfo to cover it within a reasonable time frame (the video is already over 14 minutes long). Instead we will deal with those theories in a dedicated article later."
That's a level of dedication to discipline and integrity that is not as commonplace as it ought to be, which is why I favor them and include their stuff whenever I can. Watch the video, and then read the transcript. You'll be better for it.
The transcript is here.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
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