Free Speech TV’s audio/video archive is generous.
I went there searching for and found Alan Siegal’s Lifting the Fog – Intrigue in the Middle East, a 90 minute crash course in western strategies and interventions in the Middle East from the WWI years to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and Gulf War I. It weaves remarkable old news footage and position statements from leading figures like Winston Churchill with more recent commentaries from, to name a few, Chaim Shur, Former Asst. Sec. of State Richard Murphy, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said.
They Smash Through Our Walls is 16 minutes in the grip of occupation, a horror financed by the United States, to the tune of “$14 million per day for the past 25 years.“
Substitute names and dates and the story never changes.
“Cluster bombs? What’s a few cluster bombs between friends. They concern the president very much but not enough for him to ask about their use on the hapless inhabitants of Lebanon. Reagan only knows what he reads in the papers,” wrote Mary McGrory for the Washington Post, a columnist who made Nixon’s enemies list.
“The Israeli gov’t will spend 5.5 billion dollars this year on its military forces. 1 out of every 3 dollars will come from the United States treasury.” Dan Morgan, Washington Post, also writing about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
“The apparent aim is to liquidate the Palestinian people – something you cannot do to 4 million people.” – Dr. Nahum Goldman, former President, World Jewish Congress.
But they try, in the name of freedom, justice and God they try.
*From John Le Carre interview, The Guardian, October 6, 2005:
“Mussolini’s definition of fascism was that when you can’t distinguish corporate power from governmental power, you are on the way to a fascist state. If you throw in God power and media power, that’s where we are now.” Is he saying Britain is a fascist state? “Does it strike you as democratic?” – *via GM Watch Daily