Re: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview Went Viral and

2017-01-02 Thread C.Robbins
Without question the article on Assange was the epitomy of "bad journalism", "Fake news" or whatever trending tagline one wishes to assign to biased delivery of, and 24/7 consumption of propaganda ... and, yes, Ben Jacobs, accompanied by thousands of other "journalists", should be hung out to d

The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview Went Viral and

2017-01-02 Thread Thomas Gramstad
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/ The Guardian?s Summary of Julian Assange?s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False Glenn Greenwald December 29 2016, 2:41 p.m. Julian Assange is a deeply polarizin

Re: John_Berger (5 November 1926 - 2 January 2017)

2017-01-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
... and a rare occasion to see and hear Berger speak - he gave almost no interviews in his later years: http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/062921-000-A/john-berger-oder-die-kunst-des-sehens (luckily, much of this recent German-French documentary is subtitled) -a Am 02.01.17 um 20:53 schrieb Felix S

John_Berger (5 November 1926 - 2 January 2017)

2017-01-02 Thread Felix Stalder
John Berger is dead. He died today, at the age of 90. Orbits are surely being written right now. However, Sally Potter's birthday thoughts from last November seem a more apt and personal way of remembering. "Ways of Seeing was, together with Robert Hughes' "Shock of the New", one of the first book