http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/junta 2008-06-17T21:30:28Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40637-the-listening-post-31-may-08-part-1 2008-06-17T21:30:28Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kHHIdrIEIBg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kHHIdrIEIBg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40637-the-listening-post-31-may-08-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45836" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This week on The Listening Post, we look at media news solely from the Far East. We examine the media fallout from cyclone Nargis that ravaged Myanmar -- the country formerly known as Burma -- nearly a month ago. </p> <p>In the first of two reports, The Listening Post's Simon Ostrovsky goes undercover to seek out a true picture of the devastation wrought in Myanmar by cyclone Nargis -- a truth carefully concealed and deliberately obfuscated by the ruling military junta.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/40637-the-listening-post-31-may-08-part-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/40634-the-listening-post-31-may-08-part-2 2008-06-17T21:30:25Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/flZ33kYlTTg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/flZ33kYlTTg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/40634-the-listening-post-31-may-08-part-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45834" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This week on The Listening Post, we look at media news solely from the Far East. We examine the media fallout from cyclone Nargis that ravaged Myanmar -- the country formerly known as Burma -- nearly a month ago. </p> <p>In the first of two reports, The Listening Post's Simon Ostrovsky goes undercover to seek out a true picture of the devastation wrought in Myanmar by cyclone Nargis -- a truth carefully concealed and deliberately obfuscated by the ruling military junta.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/40634-the-listening-post-31-may-08-part-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39520-over-130-thousand-missing-or-dead-in-myanmar 2008-06-11T08:41:25Z mpal <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EJUPJbDkN5c&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EJUPJbDkN5c&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39520-over-130-thousand-missing-or-dead-in-myanmar"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44609" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Progress in distributing aid is slowly being made</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39520-over-130-thousand-missing-or-dead-in-myanmar">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39254-cyclone-death-toll-rises-in-burma 2008-06-18T10:43:36Z MobLogicTV <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sAGINQBRZ6A&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sAGINQBRZ6A&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39254-cyclone-death-toll-rises-in-burma"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/44313" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>You can help out at: <a href="http://betterburmesehealthcare.com/">http://betterburmesehealthcare.com/&nbsp;</a></p><p>As the death toll rises in Burma, and the Junta government continues to repel aid efforts, another crisis looms: where has all the rice gone?</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/39254-cyclone-death-toll-rises-in-burma">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38894-headzup-mccain-s-junta-man 2008-07-14T00:40:43Z headzup <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rbdc3ltb7Lg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rbdc3ltb7Lg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38894-headzup-mccain-s-junta-man"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43899" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain is asked about Doug Goodyear, the man he personally chose to run the Republican Convention, and his ties to the brutal junta in Myanmar.</p> <p>Read more about it here-- <br />http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/11/doug-goodyear-mccains-pick-to-run-rn-convention-resigns-over-myanmar-lobbyist-ties/</p> <p>Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at <a href="http://www.headzup.tv">www.headzup.tv</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/38894-headzup-mccain-s-junta-man">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38778-myanmar-s-junta-use-food-aid-to-maintain-iron-grip 2008-06-16T21:29:56Z The Real News <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TsjuvF6yM9g&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TsjuvF6yM9g&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38778-myanmar-s-junta-use-food-aid-to-maintain-iron-grip"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43776" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080501YT">therealnews.com</a> <br />Military junta, afraid of mutiny, accused of hoarding relief supplies for military personnel</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38778-myanmar-s-junta-use-food-aid-to-maintain-iron-grip">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38602-u-s-aid-lands-in-myanmar 2008-07-01T20:27:06Z Reuters <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H1J_9xCXgxI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H1J_9xCXgxI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38602-u-s-aid-lands-in-myanmar"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43589" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>May 12 - Myanmar receives US aid as the death toll rose to nearly 32,000.The United Nations says the death toll could top 100 thousand. Fred Katayama reports from New York.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38602-u-s-aid-lands-in-myanmar">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38556-myanmar-generals-force-vote-despite-cyclone-crisis 2008-06-14T21:31:25Z The Real News <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gLL2ssQNv_c&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gLL2ssQNv_c&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38556-myanmar-generals-force-vote-despite-cyclone-crisis"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43540" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Larry Jagan: Myanmar generals do not care about the Burmese people</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38556-myanmar-generals-force-vote-despite-cyclone-crisis">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38497-myanmar-junta-seizes-aid-shipments 2008-06-12T09:35:47Z The Real News <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CCdLP1kN0Ac&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CCdLP1kN0Ac&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38497-myanmar-junta-seizes-aid-shipments"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43472" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080501YT">therealnews.com</a> <br />Military Junta blocks new aid and insists on constitutional referendum despite cyclone disaster</p> <p>Sunday May 11th, 2008</p> <p>Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Pepe Escobar writes The Roving Eye for Asia Times Online. He has reported from Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, US and China. He is the author of the recently published Red Zone Blues. Pepe is a regular analyst for The Real News Network.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38497-myanmar-junta-seizes-aid-shipments">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38484-crisis-in-the-rice-bowl-of-mynamar 2008-06-08T09:30:38Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UqZ-rKrlaho&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UqZ-rKrlaho&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38484-crisis-in-the-rice-bowl-of-mynamar"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43453" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Al Jazeera reports from the town of Maubin and from the Irrawaddy Delta, where farmers in the Rice Bowl of Burma have lost their livelihoods because of cylone Nargis.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38484-crisis-in-the-rice-bowl-of-mynamar">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38136-101-east-myanmar-referendum-08-may-08-part-2 2008-06-05T21:30:33Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j1bBmW6QWvU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j1bBmW6QWvU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38136-101-east-myanmar-referendum-08-may-08-part-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43080" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>We look at how the ruling junta is handling the country's worst natural disaster.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38136-101-east-myanmar-referendum-08-may-08-part-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38135-101-east-myanmar-referendum-08-may-08-part-1 2008-06-06T03:31:18Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9vTX2ywlxjw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9vTX2ywlxjw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38135-101-east-myanmar-referendum-08-may-08-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43079" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>We look at how the ruling junta is handling the country's worst natural disaster.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38135-101-east-myanmar-referendum-08-may-08-part-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/32387-people-power-myanmar-s-ethnic-insurgents-12-mar-08 2008-06-14T09:31:28Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3ksgW1TPQM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3ksgW1TPQM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/32387-people-power-myanmar-s-ethnic-insurgents-12-mar-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/34887" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>People & Power speak to native and environmental groups, as well as government and oil industry spokespeople about the impact Alberta's oil sands development is having on the environment</p> </div> <a href="/blog/32387-people-power-myanmar-s-ethnic-insurgents-12-mar-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/32368-people-power-myanmar-s-ethnic-insurgents-12-mar-08 2008-06-14T09:31:26Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eucr370Oz60&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eucr370Oz60&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/32368-people-power-myanmar-s-ethnic-insurgents-12-mar-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/34869" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>People & Power speak to native and environmental groups, as well as government and oil industry spokespeople about the impact Alberta's oil sands development is having on the environment.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/32368-people-power-myanmar-s-ethnic-insurgents-12-mar-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/29904-burmese-junta-announces-election-and-referendum 2008-06-13T03:30:13Z The Real News <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C2mPXG02p_I&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C2mPXG02p_I&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/29904-burmese-junta-announces-election-and-referendum"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/32190" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080201YT">therealnews.com</a> <br />Paul Copeland: The referendum is a joke</p> <p>Wednesday February 20th, 2008</p> <p>Paul Copeland, Lawyer, has been a Bencher (director) of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1990, is Co-President of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, a member of the Law Union of Ontario and was a member of the International Commission of Jurists.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/29904-burmese-junta-announces-election-and-referendum">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/15035-the-listening-post-journalists-in-myanmar-05-oct-07-part1 2008-06-16T03:33:29Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IKpj9aMtqUA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IKpj9aMtqUA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/15035-the-listening-post-journalists-in-myanmar-05-oct-07-part1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/14906" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Where journalists are virtually banned from the country we look at how footage was leaked out of the country.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/15035-the-listening-post-journalists-in-myanmar-05-oct-07-part1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/15026-the-listening-post-journalists-in-myanmar-05-oct-07-part 2008-06-16T03:33:36Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jeOW79fG8Wo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jeOW79fG8Wo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/15026-the-listening-post-journalists-in-myanmar-05-oct-07-part"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/14896" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Where journalists are virtually banned from the country we look at how footage was leaked out of the country.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/15026-the-listening-post-journalists-in-myanmar-05-oct-07-part">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/14948-101-east-myanmar-protests-04-october-07-part-2 2008-06-16T03:33:57Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QDKBSkvCy2Q&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QDKBSkvCy2Q&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/14948-101-east-myanmar-protests-04-october-07-part-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/14830" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>We ask what future is there for democracy following the ruling junta's brutal supression of protests led by monks.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/14948-101-east-myanmar-protests-04-october-07-part-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/14947-101-east-myanmar-protests-04-october-07-part-1 2008-06-16T03:33:50Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j8RXlXylWmw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j8RXlXylWmw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/14947-101-east-myanmar-protests-04-october-07-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/14829" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>We ask what future is there for democracy following the ruling junta's brutal supression of protests led by monks.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/14947-101-east-myanmar-protests-04-october-07-part-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/6904-people-power-blood-trails-27-may-07-part-2 2008-06-06T21:30:09Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RDN9ACSCriU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RDN9ACSCriU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/6904-people-power-blood-trails-27-may-07-part-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/6184" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Argentina's dirty war, as many as 30,000 Argentineans were killed during junta's policy of "disappearing".</p> </div> <a href="/blog/6904-people-power-blood-trails-27-may-07-part-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/6903-people-power-blood-trails-27-may-07-part-1 2008-06-06T21:30:16Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WiGWHaksLf8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WiGWHaksLf8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/6903-people-power-blood-trails-27-may-07-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/6183" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Argentina's dirty war, as many as 30,000 Argentineans were killed during the junta's policy of "disappearing".</p> </div> <a href="/blog/6903-people-power-blood-trails-27-may-07-part-1">Watch the video</a>