Media

It’s hard to discuss what’s been going on in the US this week without using analogies to bodily functions – actually one in particular. From congressional constipation to the largest document dump in history, it’s been a post-Thanksgiving rectal crisis of epic proportions.

Those familiar with the writings of Gilad Atzmon - the famed ex-Israeli musician and brilliant saxophone player, now based in London – can only imagine that Gaza was the place that occupied his thoughts as he composed The Tide Has Changed.

A new film trails a Cuban exile in New York who could not remain in Cuba, but who can barely survive in the swashbuckling consumerism of the United States.

When I first edited an issue of Toward Freedom Ronald Reagan was midway through his second term as US President and the Sandinistas were running Nicaragua.

The wind has changed in Argentina with the government taking on a number of initiatives to target corporate media in an attempt to democratize media ownership and access.

Join award-winning author Jeff Conant for a book presentation and discussion at the Center for Media and Democracy TV in Burlington, Vermont on Thursday, September 9th, 6:30 – 8 pm.