MEDIA ROOTS – The U.S. corporate media avoids contextual analysis of complex issues solely to attract more viewers and obtain greater advertising revenue. By promoting caricature and sensation, the establishment media avoids critical analysis of the political incentives which motivate modern conflict. Translation helps overcome U.S. media’s deficiencies by allowing narratives to cross linguistic boundaries. Dr. Nasr Ad-Din al-‘Aiadi’s chapter … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – The Pentagon and corporate media actively promote the War on Terror meta-narrative, which restricts our society’s ability to view war. As an educational activist, I’ve decided to start translating Arab political scholarship in order to present a necessary alternative narrative to the U.S. public. The preface to the book Wars: Press Coverage in Arab Media is a specific text I chose with … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the controversial Affordable Healthcare for America Act, which will enact an individual mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance or face a fine. In a tight 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court rejected the argument that mandated healthcare is legal under the Commerce clause. Instead, the Court rested its decision … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Dr. Ursula Wilder, a clinical psychologist and Fellow at the Brookings Institution, recently wrote a piece entitled Inside the Mind of a Terrorist, in which she offers “provisional thoughts about [the most recent terrorist] bomb maker’s psyche.” Instead, her rudimentary, superficial insight about terrorism unintentionally exposes the shroud of ignorance under which the U.S. war machine functions. … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — A month ago, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange and Abby Martin of Media Roots confronted Senator Rand Paul on camera at the Capitol building as he left a press conference. The question they both asked him repeatedly is why he endorsed Mitt Romney if he stands in opposition to almost every Libertarian principle that both he and his father, Ron … Read More
