INSUBORDINATION Photo-Journalism

Featuring work by independent multi-media journalist Hans Bennett (hbjournalist@gmail.com). Be it the war at home or abroad, the corporate media serves to protect the gangsters & terrorists in power. INSUBORDINATION is dedicated to using independent media for challenging all forms of illegitimate authority and oppression: white supremacy, sexism, heterosexism, capitalism, ableism, militarism, mass incarceration, and all other "might makes right" bullying.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Interview with Edward Herman about Latin America and the US

Longtime activist and author Edward S. Herman was interviewed in Philadelphia on December 26, 2008. In this interview, Herman discusses the history of US influence in Latin America, and contextualizes this with what he says is an anti-democratic US policy throughout the Global South, designed to create a favorable investment climate for US corporations. He is asked how things are changing today with the popular election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and many other recently-elected leftist presidents in Latin America. Is the

losing power and influence? What will this mean for the future? Read the full article at Upside Down World.

(stay tuned for the video release of Herman's thoughts about Mumia Abu-Jamal and local media coverage of Abu-Jamal's case.)