AtticusInk Newsvine Column- My Interview With Norman Finkelstein March 6, 2009This is a transcript of an interview with Norman Finkelstein last November, which was conducted by Atticus Mullikin and arranged and filmed by Bernd Kapeller, Associate Producer at the European Journalism Centre. The video was recorded following Mr. […]Atticus Mullikin
- Comment Deletion Policy March 6, 2009In order to more effectively and consistently moderate my own discussion forums, this Comment Deletion Policy will apply to all visitors to my column. Visitors will see a disclaimer among the first comments on my posts that includes a link to this page. […]Atticus Mullikin
- How home became homeland September 8, 2008Roger Cohen laments what the American nation is quickly becoming, and what it could have been. Whatever happened to Lincoln's "last, best hope?" […]Atticus Mullikin
- Bush wants to redeclare war in time for the election. August 30, 2008Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush's defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda. […]JoulesBeef
- Conservative Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism August 29, 2008Conservative professor of history and international relations at Boston University and twenty-three year veteran of the US Army, Andrew Bacevich, speaks with Amy Goodman about his new book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. A quote from the interview: […]Atticus Mullikin
- Jon Stewart rips media's false sense of urgency August 27, 2008Case in point: the recent sniping between the presidential campaigns after presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain couldn't remember how many houses he owned. As Stewart watched the campaigns trade attack ads over the comment, he said he thought of President Franklin D. […]TheJonesGirl
- "Contemporary Energy and Military Policies Virtually Indistinguishable" August 26, 2008A new documentary based on the work of Professor Michael Klare reveals the inextricable link between American foreign policy and energy supply over recent decades. The following is a synopsis of the film from the website. […]Atticus Mullikin
- Taking Issue With "Why We Fight": A Reaction From the Author August 25, 2008WARNING. This is as long as the original article, as I wanted to be as thorough as possible. However, everything is organized under convenient subtitles, so you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't want to. -------------------- […]Atticus Mullikin
- Ron Suskind says Iraq Intel Forged August 24, 2008Terry Gross interview's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind on his allegations that the head of Iraqi intelligence told the British there were no weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion of Iraq. […]Atticus Mullikin
- Why We Fight...Conservatism: A META, Meta-article August 15, 2008*SEPTEMBER 8TH UPDATED DISCLAIMER & WARNING* "Why We Fight" in the title of this article refers to a series of propaganda films made by Frank Capra during the Second World War, which you can link to via my Recommendations. […]Atticus Mullikin
- My Interview With Norman Finkelstein March 6, 2009
Feb
21
Death of a Nation-State
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Originally published on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
Balkanization: a chic geopolitical term derived from the repeated breakup of the Balkans, that convergent point between Turkic, Greek and Slavic identities, Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic religiosities, and a dozen sets and subsets of each of these. But Balkanization is used to describe a worldwide phenomenon. Kosovo isn’t the exception, but the rule of the future. What we’re seeing is the Balkanization of the nation-state system, period.
Feb
14
On the Borderlands of the 4th Estate
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This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
On January 24, the New York Times published an article about the resurfacing of former American Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. Quoting a story in the Air Force Times, the article discussed Rumsfeld’s speech at Network Centric Warfare 2008, where he called for a reincarnation of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) – which was used to spread the message of “a nation that was carved from the wilderness and conceived in freedom [the United States]” during the Cold War – as “an information offensive against Muslim extremists.”
Jan
28
Edwin Black
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This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
Did you know that the IBM Corporation helped to organize the Holocaust? Did you know that the Nuremberg Laws were based on guidelines drafted by a eugenics organization in the United States, and that the idea of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race was an American one? Did you know that corporate and governmental power in America conspired to dismantle mass-transit systems and addict Americans to internal combustion engine vehicles?
Jan
17
1934 Plot by American Industrialists to Seize the White House Foiled by Marine General
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This article was originally published on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
USMC General Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine of his time, made allegations in 1934 that he had been approached by Wall Street financier Gerald MacGuire, representing some of the wealthiest businessmen in America, who wanted him to lead a 500,000 man force in a march on the White House to unseat then President Roosevelt.
Dec
28
What Duties Have Journalists
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This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
In a major world religions class in college, the teacher used the opening scenes of the secular film Jerry Maguire to introduce us to the concept of epiphany. For those who haven’t seen it, the protagonist, Maguire, begins as a rich and successful sports agent, aggressively pursuing clients, all smiles and pretence and talk. After he tries to convince the son of a client that the kid’s father should keep playing sports despite four concussions, he asks himself, “Who had I become? Just another shark in suit?” He breaks down in a hotel room and writes a mission statement for his company that proscribes less clients, less money, and more attention to the people his firm represents – in essence, ethical business. The epiphanic moment – and the reason our teacher showed us the clip – was when Maguire finishes his mission statement and realizes, “Suddenly, I was my father’s son again.”
Dec
3
This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
It was with no small level of gratification that I noticed, last week, that the prestigious Poynter Institute published an E-Media Tidbit about Milblogging, and that milblogging was featured prominently in Salon’s We are the Thought Police. With such good company it seems only reasonable to keep up my own commentary.
Nov
22
This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
I stumbled across a blog this week called MedienKritik: Politically Incorrect Observations in the German Media by David Kaspar and Ray Drake. It is a blog that intends to act as “…a watchdog site dedicated to the documentation of anti-Americanism in German media and the negative influence it has on Germans’ perceptions of the United States.” Hey, I’m American. Why not?
Nov
9
Media democratization on the battlefield
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This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
Increasingly, US military personnel and people in war zones are talking about war from the inside. These testimonies, which would have been very difficult if not impossible before the information age, often offer a stark contrast to the message presented by government and corporate media. There are literally hundreds of blogs about war and conflict. Check out Yahoo’s Iraq War Blogs and Diaries and at Hereinreality.com’s Iraq Blogs and especially Milblogging.com.
Nov
2
Trust me. I’m objective!
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This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
That’s right. I’m objective. My capacity to sit down and write means that I have no biases, preconceptions, prejudices, politics or agendas. I arrived, fresh from Mars, to view the media landscape with complete and unhindered truthiness. So sit back, read and relax in the confidence that what you’re seeing represents reality as it is.
Oct
23
Helping to Revolutionize Journalism
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This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.
As I write this, I’m helping to revolutionize journalism. No, really! I am. I can take this article, paste it, link it and tag it on dozens of websites in view of millions of people. I can establish hundreds of threads between my words and the world, and I can do it at no cost, every day, as much as I want. Usually, I’ll even do it for free.
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