Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2017-08-27.htm
Date Written: 2017-08-27
Publisher: Connexions
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number: CX21167
Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
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Table of Contents:
Official Enemies
The Venezuelan Opposition does not want Democracy or Elections
The erasure of Syrian voices in Western media
What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North Korea
How Russia Became 'Our Adversary' Again
America's Deceptive Model for Aggression
Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
Topic of the WeeK: Anti-War Movement
Website of the Week: War Resisters International
Book of the Week: Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda
Film of the Week: The Most Dangerous Man in America
Organizing: How to Fight a Giant: Militant Labour Organizers Catch PepsiCo Off Guard
People's History: The Women of 1917
From the Archives: Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
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