March 15th Wrap Up: Ok, there is some mainstream coverage of Winter Soldier... it's just outside of the United States

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As KPFA's Aaron Glantz and Aimee Allison said during today's broadcast, many of the comments on our blog had something to do with the lack of mainstream coverage of the Winter Soldier 2008 event. However, one of our blog participants, "Mena" tells us "it's only a blurb but the BBC website has a brief video on this event." Earlier, Aimee Allison blogged about the Pentagon's New Statement on Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan, which was reported on by the AP. The Iraq Veterans Against the War has already responded - read about it here.

Highlights from today's broadcast included talks on Racism and War: Dehumanization of the Enemy, as well as Gender and Sexuality in the Military. We'll be posting more audio clips on warcomeshome.org soon, or listen to the entire 10 hour broadcast archive on here on KPFA.org.

Honor the Warrior

NO MORE B.S.

KiN CAMELL

"King Bush ,I mean President Bush made the statement (on national television) three weeks ago ,that he did not know gas prices were nearing 100 dollars a barrel in which equates to 4 dollars a gallon at the pump. Now I know, that you know, that he knows, (King Bush) the truth. What is it going to take before we realize we’re being lied to? How many more innocent civilians in Iraq need to die before we stand up as a whole (republicans, democrats, libertarians and independents, non- voters) and act as if we care about the future of mankind? On March 19, 2008 I will take part in a protest to mark the 5th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, and I know we are in a time where we need more than protest. It’s time to boycott the Chevrons, the Clear Channels and the Viacom’s that promote and profit from the blood spill of American and Iraqi soldiers and especially Iraqi civilians. The news described Iraq that was in need of surge for justice and equality, but the CNN report I watched last night showed me a country in a larger state of chaos now, more than it was 5 years ago. For the last 3 years I‘ve made a point to seek news from more than just media giants (CBS, FOX, ABC, CNN and NBC) and on my search I discovered 94.1 KPFA. 94.1 KPFA is stationed in Berkeley, Ca and stands against the corporate, propaganda riddled one sided news that we are bombarded with the all day. The Iraqi war has currently costs U.S taxpayers over 500 trillion dollars and no one can dispute that fact, although I’m sure many will attempt to do so. One gruesome fact that our trusted corporate media networks fail to mention is how many billions construction companies such as Halliburton, are generating by rebuilding the same land they are destroying. All my points that I’m establishing lead me to the conclusion, that since, I can’t trust the president’s word I can’t trust any corporation that benefits him vice versa. Read the book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins to gain a clear sense of how highly paid professionals swindle countries out of trillions of dollars as well has natural resources. In 1951 when Iran rebelled against a British oil company in which Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized all petroleum assets .This act of rebellion enraged England (loss of profits) who sought help from their ally the U.S.A but since both countries (England and U.S.A) dreaded a military approach would incite the Soviet Union to join Iran, a more incognito solution was derived. In steps Kermit Roosevelt(Theodore’s grandson) a C.I.A agent employed to overthrow the democratically elected Mossadegh, by any means. Kermit was successful, his tactics included pay offs, threats, street riots and violent demonstrations, in which Mossadegh spent the rest of his days on house arrest, while the pro American Mohammad Reza Shah became the undisputed president. Was this information printed in a news paper while it was taking? I doubt it very strongly, it took 50 years for this information to be made public in which brings me to my closing statement, people could not trust the U.S government then and I can’t trust them today".-KiN CAMELL

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Corporate media (non)coverage of this event

I've listened most of Saturday and have been very moved. And appreciate the witness and courage of the men and women who have testified. I hope this event provides needed salve for all who are participating. The importance of what you are doing cannot be overestimated. I just did a Google search for the event, and found precious little from the U.S., but a very good article from the Times on London (online ed.): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article34448....

Below is what came up in the search string; indy media, for the most part. Surprise, surprise:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=&q=winter+soldier+gathering....

Thankyouthankyouthank you. Great work, everyone.

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