It's been interesting to watch the discourse around the Afghan War Diary in the Canadian corporate press, and to see what they're talking about, and what they're not...On Sunday, Wikileaks released 91,731 documents about the war in Afghanistan. This is the biggest leak in US history. It'll take some time for analysts to comb through it all, but some reporting trends are already emerging.

A powerful indictment of all wars.

By Jesse Rosenfeld - July 22, 2010

...[T]hose who joined the independently organized Alternative Media Centre -- a collective of independent, freelance, and critical journalists who committed to sharing resources and working together to capture the story from the front-lines -- were systematically targeted. More than 10 AMC journalists, all with visible and clearly labeled press passes, were picked off the streets, beaten, and jailed while reporting.

By John Pilger - July 08, 2010

The Pentagon...spends $4.7 billion on public relations: that is, winning the hearts and minds not of recalcitrant Afghan tribesmen but of Americans. This is known as “information dominance” and PR people are “information warriors”.

In 2007, veteran journalist Michael Richardson began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther political prisoners known as the Omaha Two. Richardson argues that they were framed for the 1970 murder of a policeman as part of the FBI’s notorious counterintelligence program, dubbed “COINTELPRO.”

By JONATHAN COOK - Counterpunch

There is one video Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles...Its contents...threaten to gravely embarrass not only Netanyahu but also the US administration of Barack Obama...The film was shot...nine years ago, when the government of Ariel Sharon had started re-invading the main cities of the West Bank to crush Palestinian resistance in the early stages of the second intifada.

More evidence of how major media suppress important truths.

By KRYSTALLINE KRAUS - JULY 14, 2010

In a society where cameras and instant access to the Internet are changing the way we all view and record demonstrations, both the police and protesters want to harness the power of the public to bear witness to public events.

By Krystalline Kraus - July 15, 2010

If I controlled the media, I would not have wasted prime front page real estate today promoting the police's G20 Most Wanted list like the Toronto Star.

By Eva Golinger - Thursday, July 15, 2010

US State Department documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence more than $4 million USD in funding to journalists and private media in Venezuela during the last three years. This funding is part of the more than $40 million USD international agencies are investing annually in anti-Chavez groups in Venezuela in an attempt to provoke regime change.

...[W]hen oppressed, militarily occupied people resist, let's recognize that it's not our place to tell them what means they should or should not use -- and certainly not when our own nation is contributing so much to their oppression.

If one accepts, as I do, that prisons in the US are a contemporary extension of chattel slavery, that prisons are irredeemably rooted in racism and classism, that prisons serve no purpose save corporate profit and raw retribution, then one must call for their abolition. Prison “reform” is insufficient if the very notion and reality of prison itself is grounded in inequality, injustice and destruction.

By Lawrence Davidson - July 11, 2010

The American right wing is achieving its long term goal of becoming the nation’s thought police. They are realizing this goal through the timeless practices of extremists...which are intimidation, slander and harassment. In the past several months conservative outbursts have ruined the careers of journalists, most of whom were of the political center but who were indiscreet enough to say something that ran counter to the right’s version of political correctness.

Our Guest, Ricardo Alvarez, is the medical director of Clinica Esperanza, the Mission Neighborhood Health Center's HIV clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of mostly Latino uninsured or under-insured HIV patients. Clinica Esperanza is one of the premier HIV clinics in the city of San Francisco.

By Krystalline Kraus - July 2, 2010

Stories from journalists who were harassed, beaten, attacked and arrested by the Integrated Security Unit (ISU) are starting to roll in. And media types who are used to covering the story are finding themselves part of the story -- part of a larger narrative of police misconduct and brutality over the G20 weekend.