Links of the Week

LINKS OF THE WEEK FOR 29 NOV 2008

a) What is the phrase "military-industrial-media complex" doing on the front page of the NYTimes?: "Through seven years of war an exclusive club has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. Its members, mostly retired generals, have had a foot in both camps as influential network military analysts and defense industry rainmakers. It is a deeply opaque world, a place of privileged access to senior government officials, where war commentary can fit hand in glove with undisclosed commercial interests and network executives are sometimes oblivious to possible conflicts of interest."

b) KCRW’s Left, Right, and Center debates "The Future of Capitalism: Which Way Now?" Listen to the audio here.

c) The Iraqi parliament approved the US security deal this week after intense politicking. Al-Jazeera’s Inside Iraq gives details of the three-year plan and potential consequences of the vote. Watch here.

d) What will Obama bring to bear on the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan? Terry Gross interviews Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid.

e) Death-by-shopping at Wal-Mart offers the latest concretization of the dark side of marketing.

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