SUN. - SANTA CRUZ - PARENTI & ROMA LEADER SPEAK, ALSO SCREENING OF"JUDGMENT"

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THIS SUNDAY IN SANTA CRUZ: "Yugoslavia and Kosovo, Then and Now"

Sunday April 30, 2000 * 7:00 p.m.

Kresge Town Hall, Kresge College at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
(Directions at: www.ucsc.edu/general_info/maps.html )

Michael Parenti, acclaimed lecturer, author of the forthcoming "To Kill a
Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia"

Sani Rafiti, President of Voice of Roma [Roma is the proper term for the
group called "Gypsies"]

Shayna Gluck, Founding Director, the Human Shield Project

These speakers will discuss shocking new revelations concerning the US/NATO
war against Yugoslavia, the explosive growth in the heroin and sex-slave
trade in Kosovo and the unchecked violence and persecution of Kosovo
minorities by the KLA-Albanian mafia.

ALSO special screening of  'JUDGMENT' - This controversial documentary
exposes how Bosnian concentration camp images were fabricated to create
anti-Serbian public opinion.

Pre-presentation War photo exhibit "Destruction" at 6:30 p.m.

Donation $5.00--10.00- No one turned away for lack of funds

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RECENTLY POSTED AT TENC.NET:

NPR Confesses, more or less...
by Jared Israel (revised 4-14-00)

"We didn't do nothin!" That's what National Public Radio says. Actually, to
be 100% accurate, NPR says: "We didn't do nothin' but we knew it was bad so
we stopped but only 'cause we wanted to and not because you told us to and we
aint gonna never do it again." Innocence, denial, repentance. A dazzling
display; and all without commercials.

Here's the statement from NPR:

"NOAH ADAMS, host: Interns from the US Army's 4th Psychological Operations
Group PSYOPS, were working in the news divisions at both CNN and National
Public Radio last year. Both organizations say the interns were placed
without the knowledge of senior news management and they will no longer
accept any PSYOPS interns. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports."

"BROOKE GLADSTONE reporting: Last year, CNN played host to five interns from
the PSYOPS group. NPR says its three PSYOP interns were employed as temporary
administrative news interns, answering phones, filing scripts, copying and
preparing program schedules. They each worked for a couple of months
beginning in September 1998 and ending in May of last year. In a statement
today, NPR president Kevin Klose says that upon learning of the pre-existing
relationship of the three interns to the US Army, NPR news management
terminated acceptance of such interns in the future. Lieutenant Colonel Paul
Mullen(ph) deputy commander of the PSYOPS group, says the internships offered
his soldiers a chance to gain some first-hand experience in the news
business. (April 10, 2000, All Things Considered, National Public Radio)"
In case you missed it (I did on the first two readings) note the splendid
piece of literary mendacity included in the above text: "In a statement
today, NPR president Kevin Klose says that upon learning of the pre-existing
relationship of the three interns to the US Army..."

Pre-existing relationship to the army? Is that like, you know, being a
soldier? "Hey! All you bums with a pre-existing relationship to the army
ATTEN-SHUN!" I wish I could do cartoons.

The story has now appeared in the influential British newspaper, the
'Guardian':

Guardian
US, April 12, 2000

"Two leading US news channels have admitted that they allowed psychological
operations officers from the military to work as placement interns at their
headquarters during the Kosovo war. Cable Network News (CNN) and National
Public Radio, (NPR) denied that the "psy-ops" officers influenced news
coverage and said the internships had been stopped as soon as senior managers
found out.

"CNN hosted five psy-ops officers as temporary, unpaid workers last year,
while NPR took three, all from the army's 4th Psychological Operations Group,
based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The army's psychological operations are
prohibited by law from manipulating the US media.

"After the existence of the CNN internship programme was published in the
Dutch newspaper, Trouw, the network immediately cancelled it.

"For its part, the army said the programme was only intended to give young
army media specialists some experience of how the news industry functioned.
The interns were restricted to mainly menial tasks such as answering phones,
but the fact that military propaganda experts were even present in newsrooms
as reports from the Kosovo conflict were being broadcast has triggered a
storm of criticism and raised questions about the independence of these
networks.

Commentary:
Somebody Better Investigate...soon?
by Jared Israel

The publication today of the story of the CNN-Army Psy-ops connection by the
Guardian, a key British daily, illustrates the new power of Internet
alternate media.

First published Feb. 21 as two articles by Abe de Vries in Trouw, the
Amsterdam daily, the expose was translated and posted at Emperors-clothes.com
the same day. From there it was picked up by www.antiwar.com and then by
www.worldnet.daily.com , Alexander Cockburn at www.counterpunch.com and Fair,
and other Internet-based alternative media people as well.

With the NPR confession (In the form of "I confess: I didn't do it!") and the
Guardian story the exposé has gone mainstream.

I talked to Trouw writer Abe De Vries April 12. His question: What were these
Army Psy-ops people actually doing in the CNN and NPR news rooms? The stories
of Serbian atrocities have been exposed as media spin (
www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/spin.htm ). Just how did the army people
fit into the process of creating pro-NATO news?

Here's a little thought of my own: could it be that the major news dispensers
(like CNN and NPR) are already so thoroughly organized to misrepresent the
news about places like Yugoslavia that in fact they're telling the truth when
they say the Army Psy-Ops people were there to learn?

Anyway, this is all a bit too much, isn't it? Isn't a public investigation
called for? Or is "American free press" such an oxymoron that nobody would
take an investigation seriously? JI

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