January 2012
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Fault Lines: On the Pulse of the Pentagon
joshrushing:
The US announced a new military strategy today at a Pentagon briefing. Much of the discussion concerned what could be read as predictable—and cyclic—budget cuts of a post-war drawdown. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also took pains to mention what wouldn’t feel the fiscal pinch: offensive and defensive cyber security and unmanned systems.
We at Fault Lines have covered and...
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Politics, Religion and the Tea Party: What role... →
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With a powerful Tea Party movement framing Republican policy in Washington and across the US, Fault Lines looks into the links between the Tea Party movement, the Christian conservative movement and Republican politics ahead of the GOP primaries.
As the race for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2012 elections heats up, Fault Lines follows the Iowa campaign trail to...
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December 2011
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“Chile’s student protest movement claimed its second ministerial victim today...”
– “Chile’s Student Protests Claim Their Second Ministerial Victim,” Randall Woods and Sebastian Boyd, Bloomberg, December 29, 2011.
Our new Chile episode about student protests and politics airs next Monday, January 2, 2012 at 2230 GMT/ 5:30p EST on Al Jazeera English.
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It's Not a UFO, Just a Killer Drone for an...
Note to the Navy: When trucking a giant flying robot with a rounded fuselage across the country, people are going to think they’re looking at an artifact from Area 51.
As the local news coverage above shows, residents of Cowley County, Kansas, were freaked out to see a truck rumbling down U.S. 77 towing what looks a whole lot like a 32-foot spaceship. “People were calling in saying, ‘Oh they...
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'Every brigade has its own drone'
Major General Jeff Buchanan, chief spokesman for the Unites States Forces in Iraq (USFI), spoke to the Bureau last month about the role that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played in the Iraq War. A veteran of three tours in Iraq, he argues that intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance are the fields that have benefited the most from drone technology.
Could we start first by talking...
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C.I.A. Leaves Pakistan Base Used for Drone Strikes
“C.I.A. Claim of No Civilian Deaths from Drones Is Disputed,” NYT, August 11, 2011.
WASHINGTON — On May 6, a Central Intelligence Agency dronefired a volley of missiles at a pickup truck carrying nine militants and bomb materials through a desolate stretch of Pakistan near the Afghan border. It killed all the militants — a clean strike with no civilian casualties, extending what...
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The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award... →
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onaissues:
Columbia University announced the winners of the 2012 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards.The awards have been called the ” broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzers.”
Al Jazeera English, Media Storm and the New York Times are among the winners who were honored for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism.
See the full list on the Columbia Journalism...
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We won an award (the duPont Award for Excellence)
From Poynter:
Al Jazeera English has won its first Alfred I. duPont award for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism, one of 14 the Columbia School of Journalism announced this morning, a marker of the Qatar-based news network’s expansion into the United States.
The duPont award recognized excellent reporting by “Fault Lines,” AJE’s weekly documentary program that primarily...
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Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' – who's watching...
The police may soon be watching you in your garden picking your vegetables or your bottom. As police plans for increasing unmanned aerial surveillance take shape, there is a new twist. Private citizens can now buy their own surveillance drones to watch the police.
This week in New York, Occupy Wall Street protesters have a new toy to help them expose potentially dubious actions of the New York...
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How Boeing got away with breaking the law
We recut our new episode for Monday night around this news last week. - Ed.
Republicans won’t have the National Labor Relations Board’s case against Boeing to kick around anymore – though no doubt they’ll keep flogging its corpse. On Friday, the NLRB announced it was dropping its most famous investigation in years. The union that had brought the case, the International Association of...
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: In Search of Meaning: Hitchens, Whitman & War →
joshrushing:
Yesterday was a heavy day.
I was saddened to learn this morning that Christopher Hitchens died last night. Hitch was my first interview at Al Jazeera for a pilot show that never aired. I was nervous, he was buzzed. I was earnest, overly so; he was generous, predictably so. I was…
Josh is one of our Fault Lines presenters and reports for Al Jazeera English....
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Vanessa Veselka: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize... →
ladyjournos:
Inspired by the WTO protests, a demonstrator took a job in an Amazon warehouse to try and unionize the workers there
The Atlantic || December 12, 2011
Our Fault Lines episode, “The Decline of Labor Unions in America” airs next Monday, December 19, 2011 on Al Jazeera at 2230 GMT/5:30p EST.
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An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers... →
We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.
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We are inspired that a non-violent democratic movement that insists on basic economic fairness is capturing the hearts and minds of so many working people. Thank you “99 Percenters” for hearing our call for justice. We are humbled and overwhelmed by recent...
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“Shipping terminals in Seattle, Tacoma and Everett were idled as workers joined...”
– L.A. Times, ‘Longshoremen in Washington walk off the job’ (via douglascarlucci)
Our new Fault Lines episode next Monday, December 19th 2230 GMT/5:30p EST is on the decline of labor unions in the US.
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kateoplis: “What drove the Arabs in their tens of... →
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“What drove the Arabs in their tens of thousands and then their millions on to the streets of Middle East capitals was a demand for dignity and a refusal to accept that the local family-ruled dictators actually owned their countries. The Mubaraks and the Ben Alis and the Gaddafis and the kings and emirs of the Gulf (and Jordan) and the Assads all believed that they had property...
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“Bill Galston, political analyst at Washington think tank the Brookings...”
– “Suddenly darlings of the right not America’s cup of tea,” Matt Williams, December 3, 2011.
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