Thursday, February 27, 2003

-How The News Will Be Censored In This War

A new CNN system of ‘script approval’ suggests the Pentagon will have nothing to worry about

by Robert Fisk

Already, the American press is expressing its approval of the coverage of American forces which the US military intends to allow its reporters in the next Gulf war. The boys from CNN, CBS, ABC and The New York Times will be “embedded” among the US marines and infantry. The degree of censorship hasn’t quite been worked out. But it doesn’t matter how much the Pentagon cuts from the reporters’ dispatches. A new CNN system of “script approval” – the iniquitous instruction to reporters that they have to send all their copy to anonymous officials in Atlanta to ensure it is suitably sanitized– suggests that the Pentagon and the Department of State have nothing to worry about. Nor do the Israelis.

Indeed, reading a new CNN document, “Reminder of Script Approval Policy”, fairly takes the breath away. “All reporters preparing package scripts must submit the scripts for approval,” it says. “Packages may not be edited until the scripts are approved… All packages originating outside Washington, LA (Los Angeles) or NY (New York), including all international bureaus, must come to the ROW in Atlanta for approval.”

The date of this extraordinary message is 27 January. The “ROW” is the row of script editors in Atlanta who can insist on changes or “balances” in the reporter’s dispatch. “A script is not approved for air unless it is properly marked approved by an authorized manager and duped (duplicated) to burcopy (bureau copy)… When a script is updated it must be re-approved, preferably by the originating approving authority.”

Note the key words here: “approved” and “authorized”. CNN’s man or woman in Kuwait or Baghdad – or Jerusalem or Ramallah – may know the background to his or her story; indeed, they will know far more about it than the “authorities” in Atlanta. But CNN’s chiefs will decide the spin of the story.

CNN, of course, is not alone in this paranoid form of reporting. Other US networks operate equally anti-journalistic systems. And it’s not the fault of the reporters. CNN’s teams may use clichés and don military costumes – you will see them do this in the next war – but they try to get something of the truth out. Next time, though, they’re going to have even less chance.

Just where this awful system leads is evident from an intriguing exchange last year between CNN’s reporter in the occupied West Bank town of Ramallah, and Eason Jordan, one of CNN’s top honchos in Atlanta.

The journalist’s first complaint was about a story by the reporter Michael Holmes on the Red Crescent ambulance drivers who are repeatedly shot at by Israeli troops. “We risked our lives and went out with ambulance drivers… for a whole day. We have also witnessed ambulances from our window being shot at by Israeli soldiers… The story received approval from Mike Shoulder. The story ran twice and then Rick Davis (a CNN executive) killed it. The reason was we did not have an Israeli army response, even though we stated in our story that Israel believes that Palestinians are smuggling weapons and wanted people in the ambulances.”

The Israelis refused to give CNN an interview, only a written statement. This statement was then written into the CNN script. But again it was rejected by Davis in Atlanta. Only when, after three days, the Israeli army gave CNN an interview did Holmes’s story run – but then with the dishonest inclusion of a line that said the ambulances were shot in “crossfire” (i.e. that Palestinians also shot at their own ambulances).

The reporter’s complaint was all too obvious. “Since when do we hold a story hostage to the whims of governments and armies? We were told by Rick that if we do not get an Israeli on-camera we would not air the package. This means that governments and armies are indirectly censoring us and we are playing directly into their own hands.”

The relevance of this is all too obvious in the next Gulf War. We are going to have to see a US army officer denying everything the Iraqis say if any report from Iraq is to get on air. Take another of the Ramallah correspondent’s complaints last year. In a package on the damage to Ramallah after Israel’s massive incursion last April, “we had already mentioned right at the top of our piece that Israel says it is doing all these incursions because it wants to crack down on the infrastructure of terror. However, obviously that was not enough. We were made by the ROW (in Atlanta) to repeat this same idea three times in one piece, just to make sure that we keep justifying the Israeli actions...”

But the system of “script approval” that has so marred CNN’s coverage has got worse. In a further and even more sinister message dated 31 January this year, CNN staff are told that a new computerized system of script approval will allow “authorized script approvers to mark scripts (i.e. reports) in a clear and standard manner. Script EPs (executive producers) will click on the colored APPROVED button to turn it from red (unapproved) to green (approved). When someone makes a change in the script after approval, the button will turn yellow.” Someone? Who is this someone? CNN’s reporters aren’t told.

But when we recall that CNN revealed after the 1991 Gulf War that it had allowed Pentagon “trainees” into the CNN newsroom in Atlanta, I have my suspicions.

-U.S. GIs in Japan. you DON’T have to go to Iraq

To U.S. Soldiers in Japan
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If you cannot in good conscience participate in this oil war, want information about early discharge or other GI rights, call GI RIGHTS, +1-800-394-9544/+1-215-563-4620.  The opinions expressed in this leaflet are not necessarily those of the GI RIGHTS HOTLINE.  The HOTLINE contact is offered as a resource for GIs.

JANUARY 23 MESSAGE

Okinawa GI Anti-War Leaflet, Feb. 21, 2003

The Okinawa Friday Assembly is an informal group several score strong of Americans, Okinawans, and other Japanese that has held a weekly anti-war rally in front of the U.S. Consul General in Naha, Okinawa since the fall of 2001. When the first peace delegation from Okinawa visited Iraq in early 2003, members of the group held a hunger strike and vigil there for the entire ten days of the trip. This leaflet was finalized and approved by the Assembly on February 21, 2003. The reference to the UN Security Council vote in the last paragraph refers to the statements made to the Council on Feb. 14.
TO ALL GIs

Do you remember the old fable of the wolf and the lamb? The wolf and the lamb were drinking in a stream.  The wolf said, “YOU ARE MUDDYING MY DRINKING WATER!” But the lamb said, “How could I? I am downstream from you.” Then the wolf said, “SIX MONTHS AGO YOU INSULTED ME!” But the lamb said, “How could I?  Six months ago I wasn’t born yet.” Then the wolf said, “WELL, YOUR KIND IS ALWAYS INSULTING MY KIND, SO I WILL EAT YOU UP.” And he did. The truth is, the wolf was hungry.

Now we have a new fable. At the United Nations Security Council, Colin Powell said, “IRAQ HAS BEEN COOPERATING WITH AL QAIDA FOR DECADES.” But how could it?  A decade ago Al Qaida hadn’t been founded yet. A little more than a decade ago, Osama bin Laden was working for the CIA, fighting to drive Soviet troops out of Afghanistan. “BUT IRAQ HAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.” Oh really? The U.N. inspection team, who are experts at this, haven’t found even one. “THAT ONLY PROVES THAT IRAQ HAS BEEN DEVIOUSLY HIDING THEM, SO I AM GOING TO EAT IRAQ UP!”

The truth is, Iraq is loaded with oil.  Second in the world. Did you join up to help American oilmen (both Bush and Cheney are oilmen) steal other people’s oil? The United Nations Security Council voted 12 to 3 against invasion of Iraq, and supporting a continuation of UN inspection. On Feb. 15, ten million people came together in the greatest demonstration in the history of the world, to oppose invasion of Iraq.  The U.S. government is isolated.  Here is a suggestion: YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO. DON’T GO.

JANUARY 24 MESSAGE

Before rushing off to Iraq, take time to ask: What’s this war about?
Isn’t it part of the “War on Terrorism”?

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. There were no Iraqis on those planes. There’s no evidence of a connection between Iraq and Al Qaida. Al Qaida hates secular governments like Iraq’s. Isn’t it a war to defend the security of the US?

Against what?  Iraq never attacked the US, nor could it. Iraq’s military budget is 1/100 that of the US.  Iraq has no missiles capable of attacking across the Atlantic.
Isn’t it because Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?

The UN inspection team hasn’t found any. But everybody knows that you (the US military) have more weapons of mass destruction than anybody. Including chemical weapons: depleted uranium is a chemical weapon.

Look: Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, or it doesn’t.
If it doesn’t, the US’s justification for invading Iraq collapses. If it does, they’ve got no business sending you in there.

But doesn’t Iraq have a terrible government?

Probably. So do half the countries in the world. Are you going to invade them all?
Well then, what is it all about?

Iraq sits on the world’s second largest oil reserves.  The U.S. President and Vice President, bigtime oilmen, never mention this, but they know it.  In 1972, Iraq nationalized its oil industry and kicked out the big British and US oil companies (wouldn’t you?).  The Iraqi xiles in London who hope to replace Hussein are promising to let them back in.  A sweet deal: you put us in power, and we’ll give you our country’s oil.

That’s what happens: you elect oilmen: you get oil wars. Oil is nice to have. But it’s not worth killing for (or dying for).  Fighting over oil is no way to “keep our honor clean.”

Members of the Okinawa Friday Assembly TEL: 098-893-0175

If you have decided you cannot in good conscience participate in this oil war, want information about early discharge or other GI rights, call GI RIGHTS, +1-800-394-9544 or +1-510-465-1617.

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The GI Rights Hotline is answered by a coalition of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations who provide information to members of the military about discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil rights.

GI Rights Hotline Organizations
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
630 20th Street #302
Oakland, CA 94612

1515 Cherry St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102

American Friends Service Committee - New England Region
2161 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-661-6130

Center on Conscience & War (NISBCO)
1830 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-483-2220 or 800-379-2679

Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild
1168 Union Street, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92101
619-233-1701

Northcoast WRL / Humboldt Committee for Conscientious Objectors
(NCWRL-HCCO)
1040 H Street
Arcata, CA 95521
707-826-0165

Quaker House of Fayetteville, NC
223 Hillside Ave
Fayetteville, NC 28301
910-323-3912 or 919-663-7122

Seattle Draft and Military Counseling
PO Box 20604
Seattle, WA 98102
206-789-2751

War Resisters League
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
212-228-0450 or 800-975-9688

Sunday, February 23, 2003

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- N.Y. Times Lies on Lack of Turkish Opposition to the War

The following letter to the NY Times reflects the massive opposition to the war within Turkey.

Forwarded to portside by Carol Stevens Yurur in Istanbul.—portsideMod]

Mass opposition in Turkey to war on neighboring Iraq

Subject: NY Times Mis-Information on Turkey

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 20:22:42 +0200 From: Ayse Gul Altinay Subject: Your coverage of Turkey To:

Dear Mr. Filkins,

I have been reading your articles on Turkey’s position in relation to Iraq with great surprise and disappointment. I understand that you are based in Turkey, yet there is little evidence of that in your articles. Your piece on February 4, for instance, reads more like the press briefing of ‘an anonymous US diplomat in Ankara’ than an informed understanding of Turkey’s reaction to the current situation. I do not understand journalism to be a one-sided coverage of government policies and statements. Unfortunately, your coverage of the current situation in Turkey has been damaging the credibility of the New York Times --in my eyes and in the eyes of many people I know.

Particularly troubling is the ‘misinformation’ you provide regarding the anti- war sentiments of Turkish citizens. Here are two quotations from your recent pieces:

“There have been few sizable public demonstrations against war in Iraq. Many Turks say they would like nothing more than to see Saddam Hussein ousted from Iraq, and in recent days, a number of journalists and business leaders warned of lasting damage to the crucial alliance with America.”

“Still, opposition to the war has been mostly muted here. There have been relatively few public demonstrations, and even fewer that have drawn sizable crowds. Many Turks say they would like nothing more than to see Saddam Hussein ousted from Iraq, and in recent days, there was a growing chorus among Turkish journalists and business leaders that Turkey was running the risk of seriously damaging its half-century-old alliance with the United States.”

Unfortunately, you have missed the very significant point that the ‘growing chorus’ in Turkey has not been that of mainstream journalists and certain businessmen, it has been that of organized as well as individual opposition to the war. The people you cite in making your claim have remained in the small minority and have faced serious criticism from all fronts.

Are you aware of or have you reported the recent polls which suggest that 94% of the population strongly oppose this war? Have you interviewed ANYONE among this 94%?

Have you reported the fact that there are DAILY protests all around Turkey coming from all sections of the population? The massive protests in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Mersin? The Assembly of the 100s last week where more than 2000 people, among them Turkey’s most prominent names (academics, writers, artists, actors- actresses, businesspeople, doctors, lawyers), made a joint peace declaration?

Have you been reading the numerous press statements issued by the Turkish Bar Association, Doctors Association, Academic associations, human rights organizations, labour unions, the Anti-War Platform of 162 NGOs, the Peace Initiative of Turkey, etc.?

Have you reported the four-day visit of your fellow citizen Ryan Amundson who lost a brother in the Sept 11 attacks and represents ‘Seprember Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows’ in Turkey? He was on at least 3 national televisions (including CNN-TURK, NTV, and TV 8, at least one primetime live interview)and all major newspapers last week. He met with the Deputy Prime Minister Yalcinbayir and the Speaker of the Parliament Arinc in Ankara and asked them to oppose the war IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, as well as those of Turkish and Iraqi people. Have you interviewed him about his views of the Turkish peace movement and learned about how surprised he was to see the union of such a diverse group of people from all over the country being so active together?

Amundson reads the NY Times regularly. One reason why he was surprised is because none of this has been reported in the NYTimes (by you or anybody else).

Let me go back to your remark regarding anti-war opposition in Turkey having been ‘mute’: Have you, Mr Filkins, asked the politicians in Ankara how they feel about the thousand messages they have been getting in their mobile phones in the last three days? Or the faxes and emails? Have you asked them what they say to the senders of these messages when they callor write them back? Have you asked them whether they felt like they were representing their voters and the citizens of Turkey as they voted for the modernization of Turkish airports for US use today? Have you asked them about the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of anti-war signatures that were presented to them in the last couple of weeks?

Have you interviewed the telephone operators of the Turkish Grand National Assembly who are overwhelmed with the protest messages they receive via the phone every day?

Most importantly, have you asked ANYONE if they have seen such grassroots political activism coming from all sectors of Turkey’s diverse population since the military coup in 1980?

You are right about one thing, Mr. Filkins. The majority of the Turkish people could not care less about Saddam, if anything they know what a cruel dictator he was. They are well aware of the biological weapons he used only 10 years ago (which had met no opposition from the US at that time). Yet, they are STILL overwhelmingly against this war because they know that war is not the answer to this problem, that war will only trigger the use of the weapons he is believed to have, that the hundreds of thousands of deaths that this war will incur provide a more imminent threat to peace and security in the region than Saddam’s regime who has begun to collaborate with the UN. --This is my interpretation, perhaps you have a better one. But you ARE obligated to provide an explanation as to the fact that 94% of the population in Turkey oppose this war WHILE AT THE SAME TIME opposing Saddam and his cruel regime. You are also obligated, I believe, to present an OBJECTIVE account of Turkey’s response (both the government AND the people) to the current situation whether this picture suits US government’s interests or not. Otherwise, we will all conclude that the New York Times is nothing but an official news agency of the US government.

For your information, I am attaching to this message a summary of last week’s peace events (only a selection of them over the weekend of 25-27 January), the Peace Declaration of “the Assembly of the 100s”, and the letter that I sent individually to 550 parliamentarians in Ankara. Mine was among the thousands of such letters.

Regards,
Ayse Gul Altinay Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Sabanci University

-Weapons Inspectors Going to Work in America

A group of Canadian, British, American, Italian and Danish parliamentarians, scientists, academics, and religious and union leaders have informed the Pentagon that they intend to inspect the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center in Maryland this Sunday. Among the parliamentary members in the delegation are: Alan Simpson from the U.K., Libby Davies from Canada, Senator Francesco Martone and parliament member Graziella Mascia from Italy, and Pernille Rosenkrantz from Denmark.

In a letter delivered to Donald Rumsfeld earlier this week, Christy Ferguson of the Canadian group Rooting Out Evil, which is organizing the inspector delegation, wrote: “As a State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which entered into force on April 29, 1997, the United States has agreed not to develop or use chemical weapons and to destroy its chemical weapons stockpiles. As a party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, entered into force on March 26, 1975, the United States has agreed to prohibit the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and bacteriological methods of warfare.... [We are] focusing our inspection on the Edgewood site because our research reveals that the facility may be developing and stockpiling weapons that contravene the above stated conventions.”

The delegation can be reached through: Elizabeth Dove, communications director of Rooting Out Evil, , http://www.rootingoutevil.org

ED HAMMOND, cell (512) 785-8546, 494-0545, , http://www.sunshine-project.org Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project in Austin, Texas, is a biochemical weapons expert and will be participating in the delegation. He said today: “All countries that research weapons of mass destruction need to submit to an inspection regime. This symbolic action is particularly poignant because last year in Geneva the Bush administration destroyed a six-year effort involving 140 countries to create a global inspection regime for biological weapons agents. It didn’t just pull out, it actually stayed in the process with the explicit purpose of insuring there was no agreement.”

JACQUELINE CABASSO, , http://www.wslfweb.org Executive director of Western States Legal Foundation, a nuclear disarmament advocacy organization, Cabasso recently led a “Citizen Weapons Inspection Team” to the gates of the U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory in Livermore, California. She is co-author of the recent article “The End of Disarmament and the Arms Races to Come.” Cabasso said today: “While U.S.  officials try to cast the worst light on the UN weapons inspectors’ generally favorable reports, they have prepared contingency plans to use nuclear weapons in Iraq. This manifests the Bush administration’s increasingly aggressive and unilateral ‘national security’ policy which tears down the wall between nuclear and conventional weapons, and contemplates nuclear weapons use ‘against ... emerging threats before they are fully formed.’ While focusing on a speculative and questionable Iraqi ‘threat,’ the U.S. is actively pursuing ‘more useable’ nuclear weapons for use against seven named countries, in blatant violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Which country poses a greater threat to global security? Why aren’t international weapons inspectors in the U.S.? Who will disarm America?”

There will be a public forum with the inspectors on Saturday, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, 945 G St. NW, Washington, D.C.

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

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Thursday, February 20, 2003

-Shibuya peace rally

There was a peace rally in Shibuya, Tokyo on Feb. 15 with about 2 - 4 thousand people on hand. It was a good rally, lot’s of fun despite the impending holocaust of war. Young and old, Japanese and foreigners were there. I was glad to be a part of the antiwar movement in Japan (admittedly, very tiny compared to other Western countries) in this my second antiwar march this year.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003

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- Robert Fisk, Robert Jensen and Michael Albert on the peace movement and media

Black Americans....are uninhibited in their sympathy for Palestinians under occupation. But when I told a lecturer in Austin that I had asked hotel staff and air crews to turn up to my lectures on the Middle East and America – and that all had come – I was treated with a kind of weird amazement, puzzlement that I should bother to ask such unpromising material to think about the Arab-Israel conflict mixed with faint pity that I should ever expect them to understand.

From Robert Fisk:

A Nation Divided, With No Bridges Left To Build

...are we developing a movement whose intention is to constantly grow and alter, and in which we must constantly adapt our personal proclivities as we attract new constituencies and incorporate new agendas? Are we eager to empower others thereby reducing our own level of power and our own impact on how things proceed, though seeing the overall power of the movement enlarge?

From Michael Albert

Showdown

Video/Audio

Professor Robert Jensen discussing media, media & war (Iraq in particular) etc
(Video interview in Austin, Texas on 6th February 2003 )

What’s wrong with contemporary mass media & what should we be asking from them?  [6:29]

What has happened to journalism since 9/11 and how is the mass media handling the runup to the attack on Iraq?  [4:38]

How is the media itself being manipulated, especially since 9/11, and now prior to Iraq?  [3:02]

How the US see itself in the world - purely as a force of good?  [4:04]

What is the US connexion between space exploration, limits & Manifest Destiny?  [4:14]

How do you view the ‘oil peak’ problem?  [3:20]

http://globalpublicmedia.com/INTERVIEWS/BOB.JENSEN/Bob.Jensen.2003-02-06.php

- Audio: World Says No to War

Actor Danny Glover, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Bishop Desmond Tutu, 9/11 widow Beverly Eckert, United for Peace & Justice organizer Leslie Cagan, 50 Years is Enough Network Njoki Njehu, Actor Ossie Davis, Mediachannel.org Danny Schechter, Medea Benjamin

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=6404