Anybody who has taken an interest in Ahmad Chalabi, John Rendon, Judith Miller and their links to Paul Moran, the Australian news cameraman killed in Iraq, may be interested in my interpretation of the story – a screenplay based on the life of Paul Moran.
For more details see http://acharmedlifemovie.blogspot.com
I have also written a background article on Paul Moran’s involvement with the WMD affair. If this is of interest, email me at paulrouse@bluebottle.com for a copy.
I am a freelance journalist who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East, and knew Paul Moran well.
Anybody who has taken an interest in Ahmad Chalabi, John Rendon, Judith Miller and their links to Paul Moran, the Australian news cameraman killed in Iraq, may be interested in my interpretation of the story – a screenplay based on the life of Paul Moran.
For more details see http://acharmedlifemovie.blogspot.com
I have also written a background article on Paul Moran’s involvement with the WMD affair. If this is of interest, email me at paulrouse@bluebottle.com for a copy.
I am a freelance journalist who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East, and knew Paul Moran well.
Anybody who has taken an interest in Ahmad Chalabi, John Rendon, Judith Miller and their links to Paul Moran, the Australian news cameraman killed in Iraq, may be interested in my interpretation of the story – a screenplay based on the life of Paul Moran.
For more details see http://acharmedlifemovie.blogspot.com
I have also written a background article on Paul Moran’s involvement with the WMD affair. If this is of interest, email me at paulrouse@bluebottle.com for a copy.
I am a freelance journalist who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East, and knew Paul Moran well.
So people have finally caught on that there exists a such thing as hypocrisy, and that people (eg. candidates) are not necessarily what they say they are, and that the character of people cannot necessarily be determined by the particular flags they wave.
It has been said that characterization in movies is very lacking these days compared to what it used to be. Maybe I'm overly bent on glorifying the past --- nevertheless I do find it interesting that the demise of characterization in movies (and other story telling?) has paralleled our lack of recognition (in society in general) that hypocrisy exists. People are no longer people --- they are numbers and objects, as we sink deeper and deeper into a sociopathic norm, and the hyponosis of our television sets sets in.
Remember the quote "Information wants to be free."? That's one of Brand's famous oblique observations that comes to mind for me both in considering this topic and in considering work like Stauber's that tries to tell us what's going on inside the machine so we can better understand how to free ourselves from its control.
Rendon's presentation and the Q&A, arguments, hostility, heckling, etc. that followed both on the Long Now site and here are really interesting on so many levels. I disagree with the assessment that it's cynical or that it's supposed to be refreshing. It is insightful, not toward the "war on terror", but toward how much we outside the beltway resemble those "on the street" in Islamic countries to insiders like Rendon, Freidman, etc., and how much disconnect there is between us and them (more than should be, less than could be).
I'm not sure if it's reassuring or frightening that Rendon believes that the US should, to use Clinton's words "realize that we can't keep killing all our enemies or putting them in jail, so we need to start making some friends." But it's apparent that this idea has its adherents in high places, and that sometimes they don't do the best job putting it to work.
In a way I'm grateful to Rendon for showing up and sharing his opinions. I for one found them interesting mainly because he knows a lot more than I do about what's going on. I'm definitely grateful to John Stauber and those who jumped at the chance to participate for the sake of democracy in America.
I hope there can be more dialogues like this, chaos and all, but I wonder how much we can advance the cause of peace and greater mutual understanding this way. That's up to us I guess.
Anybody who has taken an interest in Ahmad Chalabi, John Rendon, Judith Miller and their links to Paul Moran, the Australian news cameraman killed in Iraq, may be interested in my interpretation of the story – a screenplay based on the life of Paul Moran.
For more details see http://acharmedlifemovie.blogspot.com
I have also written a background article on Paul Moran’s involvement with the WMD affair. If this is of interest, email me at paulrouse@bluebottle.com for a copy.
I am a freelance journalist who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East, and knew Paul Moran well.
Anybody who has taken an interest in Ahmad Chalabi, John Rendon, Judith Miller and their links to Paul Moran, the Australian news cameraman killed in Iraq, may be interested in my interpretation of the story – a screenplay based on the life of Paul Moran.
For more details see http://acharmedlifemovie.blogspot.com
I have also written a background article on Paul Moran’s involvement with the WMD affair. If this is of interest, email me at paulrouse@bluebottle.com for a copy.
I am a freelance journalist who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East, and knew Paul Moran well.
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