Showing posts with label iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iraq. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The War You Don't See- a documentary by John Pilger

In this excellent film, Pilger delves into the media's influence on shaping the public's opinion on war from WWI to Afganistan......

"We journalists have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power." `John Pilger






Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI

Twenty Interviews and Five Conversations with "High Value Detainee # 1" in 2004

Washington, D.C., July 1, 2009 - FBI special agents carried out 20 formal interviews and at least 5 "casual conversations" with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after his capture by U.S. troops in December 2003, according to secret FBI reports released as the result of Freedom of Information Act requests by the National Security Archive and posted today on the Web at www.nsarchive.org.