Residents of the small town of Potrero joined with environmentalists, peace activists, vet
Residents of the small town of Potrero joined with environmentalists, peace activists, veterans groups, immigrant rights groups, and others to stop the mercenary firm Blackwater Worldwide from building a training facility in their town. This is the story of their fight and ultimate defeat of Blackwater. Featuring interviews with residents of Potrero both for and against Blackwater, including Jan Hedlun, and Gordon Hammers; as well as Blackwater's VP Brian Bonfiglio; Jeremy Scahill, the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army; and leading activists, including Raymond Lutz of Citizens Oversight Committee, Carol Jahnkow of the Peace Resource Center of San Diego, Enrique Morones of Border Angels, and Jeanette Hartman of the Sierra Club. Producer: Andy Trimlett
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Doris Bittar emigrated with her Lebanese Family to New York in 1965, and studied Fine Art
Doris Bittar emigrated with her Lebanese Family to New York in 1965, and studied Fine Art at Stonybrook College in New York. Now living in San Diego, she has exhibited her work widely in art museums throughout the United States and Europe. Bittar's work weaves together iconic images of European, American and Middle Eastern culture, combining the political with intensely personal.
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Washington Post deputy foreign editor Peter Eisner discusses the subject of his book "The
Washington Post deputy foreign editor Peter Eisner discusses the subject of his book "The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq"
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Part 1 of 3 Jeremy Scahill, a Nation Magazine contributor, Democracy Now correspondent, an
Part 1 of 3 Jeremy Scahill, a Nation Magazine contributor, Democracy Now correspondent, and author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army", speaks in San Diego on May 1 2007. In Part 1, Jeremy Scahill tells the story behind the iconic images of the four Blackwater civilian security contractors who were killed and mutilated, their charred bodies hung from a bridge in Fallujah, an incident that further inflamed violence throughout Iraq. Scahill explains the inherent flaws in deploying private contract security forces into a war zone and details the tragic sequence of events that led the four American men from distinguished military careers to their doom as civilian contractors. Scahill also describes how founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince developed Blackwater into one of the world's largest private security companies by providing outsourced services in the wake of cataclysmic events such the Columbine High School shootings, the USS Cole bombing, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Additionally, Scahill explores Prince's extensive personal and political links to powerful figures within the "Religious Right."
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Alternate Focus presents a video from the organization If Americans Knew. www.ifamericans
Alternate Focus presents a video from the organization If Americans Knew. www.ifamericansknew.org
Part 2 contains an additional four segments. The 15 minute video "Captured Prisoners" features testimony from former inmates and outside observers about Palestinian's minimal legal rights and the brutal conditions inside Israeli prisons. The next segment explores "Gaza After Disengagement". The third segment offers interviews with American politicians, diplomats, and journalists about the Israel-Palestine conflict. The program concludes with a three minute version of the Alternate Focus show "Divesting From Violence: Presbyterian Policy in the Middle East".
Alternate Focus is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational media group promoting an alternative view of Middle East issues. We use the web, cable and satellite television, and DVDs to showcase media not usually seen by American audiences.
Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check www.alternatefocus.org for details.
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Alternate Focus presents a video from the organization "If Americans Knew".
www.ifameri
Alternate Focus presents a video from the organization "If Americans Knew".
www.ifamericansknew.org
Part 1 features four segments. In "The Easiest Targets" five women -- Palestinian, American, Muslim, Christian and Jewish -- tell stories of humiliation and harassment by Israeli border guards and airport security officials. The next segment examines how the Associated Press allegedly erased footage of an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian boy. Third, "Jeffrey Goldberg: Pundit for Israel" shines light on the writer and TV commentator's past as a guard at Israel's notorious Ketziot prison. The last segment features a 3 minute version of the Alternate Focus program "Off the Charts: Media Analysis of the Israel-Palestine Conflict".
Alternate Focus is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational media group promoting an alternative view of Middle East issues. We use the web, cable and satellite television, and DVDs to showcase media not usually seen by American audiences.
Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check www.alternatefocus.org for details.
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"I think the American people get it. I think our leadership doesn't get it. They've made
"I think the American people get it. I think our leadership doesn't get it. They've made a mess." James Zogby discusses American policy in the Middle East. Producer: Andy Trimlett
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"Greg Palast: The Most Important Investigative Reporter You've Never Heard Of." Journalis
"Greg Palast: The Most Important Investigative Reporter You've Never Heard Of." Journalist Greg Palast rakes the filthiest muck of globalization, corporate cons, and high-finance fraudsters in daily newspapers and on nightly national TV...in England! Although he was born and raised in Southern California, Palast's consistently shocking reports rarely breach the wall corporate media has gradually built around the American people. As Noam Chomsky puts it, Palast upsets all the right people. However, the film Fahrenheit 9/11, which derived some of its factual ammunition from Palast's book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, offered Americans a glimpse of his investigations. On Mother's Day 2004, Palast addressed a crowd of several hundred in San Diego. Utilizing documentary evidence and a witty delivery, Palast's oration on the truth behind the War on Terror and the Iraq War will both alarm and entertain viewers. Producer Aaron Seeley
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Like most Americans, Alison Weir, the editor of a small-town newspaper in California, knew
Like most Americans, Alison Weir, the editor of a small-town newspaper in California, knew very little about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, other than what she had gleaned from the evening news or newspaper headlines. As a journalist, her attention was on issues much closer to home. Neither a Muslim nor a Jew, she nevertheless became more curious about the topic of the Palestinian uprising. And as she researched it, she became increasingly suspicious that the American media were not telling us the whole story. Months later, she traveled to the occupied territories as an independent journalist to find out for herself what the U.S. media seemed to be omitting. Three months after returning from Palestine, Alison Weir quit her job and founded If Americans Knew, an organization dedicated to quantifying the ways in which the American media was misinforming the public about the conflict. Ms. Weir explains her group's methodology, analyzes the data, and reports on the key findings. Producers: Paul Chek and John Odam (2006)
Alternate Focus is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational media group promoting an alternative view of Middle East issues.
Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST
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