"JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass review – Oliver Stone returns to the grassy knoll. This doc is packed with facts about the assassination – the subject of Stone’s 1991 movie – yet is frustratingly short on answers. ...
This new movie presents us with a mountain of new circumstantial evidence about the events in Dallas in 1963. With the benefit of innumerable newly released documents and newly uncovered interviewee records, it exhaustively and persuasively shows that there are screamingly obvious inconsistencies and anomalies in the evidence concerning the bullet that was supposedly recovered, the significance of the entry and exit wounds, the compromised integrity of the autopsy records, the whereabouts of Lee Harvey Oswald on the day and the possibility that he was what he always claimed to be – a 'patsy'. ...
But, exasperatingly, and despite speculation being the order of the day, the film never attempts to name any supposed second or third shooter, to say exactly where these gunmen would have been positioned, and how the inevitable witnesses to their activity would have been suppressed."
-->Alright, this isn't really the best review of the documentary. But at least the film is covered. The US media is much less interested in the history of one of its most important assassinations, that of JFK. In fact, one of its most important messages is how the US media as well as the political establishment that runs our country won't really touch what happened to our 35 president. The power of the national security state would never allow it. (now on Hulu, Amazon Prime and Showtime)
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The Gray Zone:
"While Democracy Now hosts US gov’t-funded pundits to spread humanitarian interventionist propaganda about Xinjiang, an analysis by The Grayzone found most of the outlets’s China coverage is sharply negative
The U.S. has claimed a humanitarian 'Responsibility to Protect' to justify military operations in the name of saving civilian lives from evil dictators. Most notable have been the brutal U.S.-led wars in Libya and Syria which destabilized entire regions in the name of 'civilian protection' and “promoting democracy.” These operations relied heavily on self-described human rights NGO’s and media outlets to cultivate support among liberal sectors of the US intelligentsia. Sadly, Democracy Now has been among the most influential and insidious outlets carrying water for the humanitarian interventionist agenda.
The flagship program of the left-wing Pacifica radio network, Democracy Now (DN) and its founding host, Amy Goodman, are regarded as standard bearers of grassroots progressivism. However in recent years the show has become a reliable platform for uncritical regime change propaganda, demonizing targets of US empire from Syria to Nicaragua while sending a correspondent to embed with US-backed 'rebels' in Libya. Now that China is in the crosshairs of the US, DN is playing host to virtually any piece of humanitarian agitprop that Washington can conjure up, while publishing a regular serving of sharply negative stories about Chinese government and society."
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/22/democracy-nows-china-state-departments-cold-war/
-->Say it ain't so! Why is Democracy Now letting us down on US imperialism? Is it about donors? This story needs research, but at least the Gray Zone is willing to point out the obvious.
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Guardian UK:
"The US has rejected calls for a binding agreement regulating or banning the use of “killer robots”, instead proposing a 'code of conduct' at the United Nations.
Speaking at a meeting in Geneva focused on finding common ground on the use of such so-called lethal autonomous weapons, a US official balked at the idea of regulating their use through a “legally-binding instrument”.
The meeting saw government experts preparing for high-level talks at a review conference on the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons from 13 to 17 December. ... 'In our view, the best way to make progress ... would be through the development of a non-binding code of conduct,' US official Josh Dorosin told the meeting."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/02/us-rejects-calls-regulating-banning-killer-robots
-->The US is all in favor of "none binding codes of conduct" when it come to war crimes. Our newspaper of record, the NYT, didn't even cover this story. Can't get more non-binding than that.
