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MEDIA ROOTS — The number of deeply impoverished Americans has exploded since Obama took office, according to Panorama, BBC’s weekly investigative news program. In fact, the U.S. is more unequal now than any other time since the Great Depression. Three million are newly unemployed while one-fifth of the wealth is earned by just one percent of the population. Additionally, nearly … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Last month, President Obama claimed that there has not been a significant amount of civilian deaths in Pakistan from unmanned US drones. Yet, more than a dozen Pakistani families of dead civilians have petitioned to the United Nations for an intervention to immediately cease U.S. drone attacks. The UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) is expected to review … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Doubtless, many have heard of the U.S. targeted killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki under Obama. But many may not know that al-Awlaki wasn’t the last U.S. citizen arbitrarily killed by the state, as investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill recently reported: “You know, President Obama authorised strikes that resulted in three U.S. citizens being killed within less than … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Several hundred psychologists, as well as numerous psychological associations around the country, are united in calling for the annulment of the American Psychological Association’s report on Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS). The 2005 report is an APA endorsement of the highly suspect intelligence-gathering procedures used in US military detention sites such as Guantánamo Bay and Bagram, … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Film director Michael Winterbottom has adapted best-selling author Naomi Klein’s book Shock Doctrine in an excellent feature documentary. Winterbottom, who has directed such films as Welcome to Sarajevo, The Road to Guantanamo and Code 46, produces a compelling treatment of Klein’s book. The shock doctrine thesis maintains elites have taken draconian shock therapy ‘treatments’ (inflicted upon individual … Read More
