Articles by Danny Schechter
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How Mandela and S. Africa Were Freed
Danny Schechter – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
History often recounts events through the tales of “great men,” but that is rarely the complete story. South Africa’s overturning of white supremacy is a case in point, not just the personal triumph of Nelson Mandela but the victory of a global movement.
→ read full articleMuch Bank Crime, Little Punishment
Danny Schechter – Consortium News,
17 Mar 2014
Wall Street banks made a bundle on securitized subprime mortgages until the bubble began to burst in 2007 inflicting devastating harm on average people around the world. Yet, despite government rhetoric to the contrary, the key culprits have escaped punishment.
→ read full articleThreats of Cyber War, Realities of Cyber Censorship
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
22 Oct 2012
Cyber war is already underway, not just between some countries, but within countries and against cyber-active citizens.
→ read full articleWhen You Hear About Massacres, Reach For Your Truth Detector
Danny Schechter – PressTV,
4 Jun 2012
When is a massacre a massacre, and how can we find truth in the fog of intense war propaganda? That’s a question that is being raised anew in the aftermath of the dreadful Hula massacre. The sight of dead children and torn bodies on the ground in Syria offers up sickening images.
→ read full articleGlobal Financial Crisis as a Human Rights Issue
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
19 Mar 2012
I think it’s important we recognise that there are economic and social rights as well as political ones, and that if the UN has the duty to “protect” ordinary people against military abuses, it also has the obligation to protect citizens who are being abused by the decisions of the 1 per cent – bankers, economic policymakers and big business honchos. Sitting in the luxury of an Intercontinental Hotel where every third TV ad is for a pricey watch or a Mercedes, I realise that so many in the diplomatic elite, tooling around in their chauffeured cars, identify more with the 1 per cent that has benefited from a crisis that seems to be deepening.
→ read full articleMillennium Development Goal Drinking Water Target Met
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
19 Mar 2012
6 Mar 2012 – The world has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline, according to a report issued today by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). Between 1990 and 2010, over two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells.
→ read full articleOccupy Wall Street’s Elegant Message
Danny Schechter - Consortium News,
7 Nov 2011
One of the most frequently repeated, recycled and dismissive questions about Occupy Wall Street is its supposed lack of an “agenda.” The “what do you people want” question has featured in media interviews almost to the exclusion of all others. It’s as if the movement won’t be taken seriously by some, unless and until, it enunciates a list of “demands” and defines itself in a way that can allow others, especially a cynical media, to label and pigeonhole it. (So, it won’t be taken seriously then either.)
→ read full articleBehind the Scenes of #OccupyWallStreet
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
3 Oct 2011
The protests on Wall Street are growing larger, despite police using pepper spray and making arrests.
→ read full articleUS Economics: One Big Ponzi Scheme
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
21 Feb 2011
While Bernie Madoff languishes in jail, bankers continue to profit as the poor lose their homes and hope. What is clear is that ripping off the rich is punished far more severely than ripping off the poor.
→ read full articleThe US Media Hit on Helen Thomas
Danny Schechter – ConsortiumNews,
3 Jan 2011
Editor’s Note: Last June when the mainstream Washington press corps rode the 89-year-old journalistic icon Helen Thomas out of the news business on a rail, a key count in the professional “indictment” against her was that she lacked “objectivity” with her impertinent questions to U.S. presidents and in her criticism of Israel. However, for years among big-time U.S. journalists, “objectivity” has been a principle most noticeable in its absence, especially on the sensitive issue of Israel, the topic that touched off the furor that ended Thomas’s career, as Danny Schechter notes in this guest essay.
→ read full articleThe Secret Wall Street Bailout
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
13 Dec 2010
The US doled out $12.3 trillion dollars to finance bailouts, a figure far higher than what was previously stated. Go, Wall Street, Go!
→ read full article‘Wall Street Leads in Phony Reform’
Danny Schechter – Al Jazeera,
5 Jul 2010
Charade
noun
an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance: talk of unity was nothing more than a charade. The plan was to get the financial reform bill “done” by last weekend so that Barack Obama, the US president, could pull it out of the his back pocket at the G20 meeting in Canada to demonstrate American “leadership” on an issue the whole world is legitimately worried about: the real prospect of an even more serious global economic collapse.
ON THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR ON IRAQ: SPOTTY COVERAGE, A FEW PROTESTS, AND A DESIRE TO “MOVE ON” TO MAKE IT ALL DISAPPEAR
Danny Schechter - ZNet,
21 Mar 2010
American media loves anniversaries of major events. They become ideal "news pegs" to do follow-up stories. You would think that they would have pulled out the stops for the seventh anniversary of the US war on Iraq, a war that was described by the Pentagon in its first days as a "cake walk" and designed […]
→ read full articleIT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY
Danny Schechter - ZNet,
12 Feb 2010
Remembering Nelson Mandela’s Release from JailIt was 20 years ago Thursday February 11th when Nelson Mandela’s Liberation Band began to play. While tens of millions looked on, a great drama was building steam in South Africa. Nelson Mandela had been incarcerated in a small house, now a national heritage site, at Victor Verster Prison […]
→ read full articleWHAT NEXT FOR HAITI AS “RECOVERY” REPLACES RELIEF?
Danny Schechter – Global Research,
4 Feb 2010
As Media Coverage Fades, Urgent Issues on the Disaster Go UncoveredUN Takes Over Aid Distribution; Admits Effort Has Been a Failure Haiti is already fading from the headlines. The desperation of the population in what was called the “rescue” phase of the relief effort is giving way to ‘silver-lining” talk of recovery and rebuilding. Even as […]
→ read full articleREMEMBERING PATRICE LUMUMBA
Danny Schechter - Global Research,
14 Dec 2009
I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone and wood as a hobby. But there, surrounding the ageing […]
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