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Headlines : GovernmentInside Myanmar: The Crackdown
This video is a must-see. It covers the protests in graphic detail, and represents real investigative journalism. In comparison, the coverage of the protests by U.S. corporate media, from NPR to CNN to FOX, looks incedibly pathetic.
It’s probable that the U.S. corporate elite are worried about the public protests in Myanmar, and are trying to play down their significance. The last thing they want to the U.S. public to start thinking is that ordinary people, though non-violent protest, can significantly alter governments.
[Posted By neurolingo]Republished from AlJazeera
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley spent nearly two weeks undercover in Myanmar filming the massive popular uprising against the country’s military rulers.
He was on the streets of Yangon as monks led the people in an open show of defiance.
And as the only foreign television news correspondent in the former capital he witnessed the brutal crackdown by the army.
Often in disguise and posing as a tourist, Birtley came under fire with the protestors and worked under the constant threat of arrest by the Myanmar authorities.
In this 30-minute programme featuring scenes of the clampdown never aired before, he speaks to the ordinary people and the monks of Myanmar about the uprising and their hopes and fears for the country’s uncertain future.
He looks at the social and economic problems currently gripping a country once so prosperous.
Posted by neurolingo
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Wow, powerful stuff. Nice post!
Excellent reporting. It’s strangely uplifting to see. That kind of journalism. How could the people of Burma not know that they have been seen, that the world has been alerted? That must be worth something.
Has anyone seen or heard anything about whose idea it was to raise the price of basic commodities 500%? What was the context of that? Do we know?
To answer Microdot’s qn, try here:
Burma: the Back Story
Also, I just wrote an article here on the media’s soft-spin of the Burma uprisings.
Engdahl does The ‘Saffron Revolution’
Oh yeh! The IMF. Quelle surprise. What a bunch of suckers. I’m going to get some sleep and then I’m going to do some reading. Thanks.
from Engdahl’s piece. We have a lot of TV crowd here, I’m surprised this is the first I’ve heard of this, pero, apparently
OPEN QUOTE
CNN made the blunder during a September broadcast of mentioning the active presence of the NED behind the protests in Myanmar
END OF QUOTE
I hadn’t realized that the Congressionally funded National Endowment for Democracy funds George Soros and his Open Society Institute . . . that’s interesting.
I guess when you have that much money, you’d rather get more from indigent taxpayers.
This is the first I’ve heard of Gene Sharp’s Albert Einstein Institution. Why does the name sound so familiar?
We’ll have to take a closer look at that baby.
The US taxpayer has been pumping some “$2.5 million annually into NED activities in promoting regime change in Myanmar since at least 2003”. They’ve been running the operation out of a US Consulate in Thailand.
Gene Sharp and his little Einstein Institute have been in there since 89. Apparently the little Sharp was also seen in China a few weeks prior to the TianAnMen Square scandal.
Aha! That’s why the name sounds familiar : Sharp is known for his books on Non-violent Struggle so of course you’d like to think he’s a good guy — not just the “Machiavelli of nonviolence” and the “Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare.”
But voila : he has systematically aligned himself with the infamous EuroAmerican Corporate Agenda of piracy and plunder. So that’s disappointing.
Here is another video of the crackdown gathered by a reporter. It was broadcast on FRANCE24 English, and it’s just as gripping as the Al Jazeera video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEhEXHODheE
Did neither of these make it onto American network TV? Why? How can they call themselves news companies?
I made my own little video here of Daily Mail removing a headline story about 1000’s dead and buried in the jungle, and redirecting the URL to point to a new story that contains the same facts, but obfuscated by wordplay and buried in th3e bottom paragraphs.
Actually, I can’t get YouTube to upload it right now, but if you’re on Facebook, it’s here.
Here is the Youtube version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANbigv0bH3Y