No one says it better than the dog...
...... What
does this mean? Well, it ties in nicely with the overall theme of this blog, to
wit, trying to fill some of the space left open by the mainstream media on some
of the bigger issues of the day, one of which is the national security state
and its war on terror, especially “Guantanamo Bay.” Obviously, one of the
biggest sources of mainstream media information ever to come out about GTMO was the Wikileaks treasure trove of GTMO data. Among
the curators of this data was our good friend Andy, (who testified at Assange’s
hearing in London). Andy has been at the forefront of
journalists throughout the world on matters GTMO, despite being an independent,
not permanently attached to any major news organization. Although I am nowhere
even near Andy’s league in terms of my own journalism, I have still compiled
over 70 interviews on the subject (referenced here).
While there are “mainstream journos” on the beat (Carol Rosenberg, now at
the N.Y. Times being the first that comes to mind),
for the most part, I have to say that not just GTMO, but treatment of our
military’s prisoners everywhere (CIA black sites, Bagram/Kandahar, GTMO, etc.),
or the drone wars, or frankly, just how wide the bloody war on terror actually
is, has received a strangely limited amount of coverage from the main stream
media, which as I note, has created some openings for “independents.”
Read the rest here.
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