Part 1: New World Notes # 292 (October 8):
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Part 2: New World Notes # 293 --
(October 15):
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In Brief
A fine talk by journalist
Jeremy Scahill based in part on his recent book,
Dirty Wars.
He
tells the story of the radicalization of U.S. citizen
Anwar
al-Awlaki--who was
assassinated by order of President Obama in 2011. But
this is also the story of an ever-expanding
national security state, of
the U.S.'s ever-expanding
global wars, and of
Barack Obama's war against
whistleblowers and press freedom.
And it's also the story of the
corrupt U.S. news media, determined to
serve the powerful rather than hold them to account.
In Part One, Scahill lambastes the Establishment media's
Washington press corps and begins the story of
Awlaki. He shows how how the Bush Administration's "Global War on Terror" transformed this American from a nonpolitical student . . . to the darling of the Washington elite . . . to a radical opponent of the U.S.'s wars in the Middle East--and a man marked for death by the Obama administration.
In Part 2, Scahill tells of Obama's
secret war in Yemen, revealed by Yemeni journalist
Abduleleh Haider Shaye--who was then abducted by US forces and imprisoned by Yemen's dictator at the insistence of
President Obama. Scahill contrasts Haider Shaye's courage with the sycophancy of the US press corps.
Scahill tells also of the Obama administration's
war against the press--and of the government-ordered assassination without trial of US citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and then his 16-year-old son,
Abdulrahman.
Jeremy gave this talk at the "Socialism 2013" conference, in Chicago, in June 2013. A video is available from
wearemany.org.
16-year-old American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, son of Anwar. Killed in Yemen by a U.S. drone strike two weeks after his father was killed. The President refuses to say why.
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