Wednesday, February 19, 2003

- 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