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FRONTLINE presents BAD VOODOO'S WAR Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS "Here we are. It's about 2:30 in the morning on the 2nd of October. We have been on the road for a while. ... Wasn't too excited to get this change of mission. The stretch of road between Anaconda and Speicher, known as IED Alley, it's probably one of the worst stretches of road in theater." -- Sfc. Toby Nunn, during his second Iraq deployment, to his personal mini-DV camera FRONTLINE goes to war in Iraq with a band of California-based National Guard soldiers...

Bush's War Monday, March 24 and Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9 P.M. (check local listings) From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge-for six years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence. Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga unfolds in the two-part FRONTLINE special Bush's War, airing Monday, March...

From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge -- for six years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence. Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga unfolds in the two-part FRONTLINE special Bush's War, airing Monday, March 24, from 9 to 11:30 P.M. and Tuesday, March 25, 2008, from 9...

If you don’t want to read this entire review, or watch all four and a half hours of Frontline’s big fifth anniversary Iraq extravaganza, Bush’s War, here’s the short version: Bush lied, people died. It’s hard to know where to start with everything that is wrong with this two-part series, airing at 9 p.m. March 24 and 25 on PBS. So I’ll start with what’s right with it. As television goes, it is a relatively comprehensive review of the major decisions and controversies of the Iraq war, with a little 9/11, Afghanistan precede. It makes some, though not many, attempts...

Tonight on The Front Line, we’ll be talking to “Thus Spake Ortner,” a well-known military blogger from The Sniper who, together with Jonn from This Ain’t Hell, live-blogged the Winter Soldier II hearings last week. TSO will be on to tell us all about how much of a circus it really was. So much for freedom of speech. Tune in tonight at 9 pm EST, and feel free to call the show and weigh in with your opinion at 646-915-9926 or 866-697-8111 (the toll free number)!

Link to blogtalk radio show Frontline. To nights show is on the IVAW event and Gathering of Eagles counter to it today.

NT soldiers bound for frontline REBEKAH CAVANAGH14Mar08 TERRITORY soldiers are to become Australia's first frontline troops since the Vietnam war. A squad of Darwin-based Diggers are being deployed to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban.The 15 artillerymen from 8/12 Medium Regiment at Robertson Barracks will fight alongside British troops.The gunners will be based in the dangerous southern province of Helmand -- the same area where Prince Harry was serving before being sent home last month after his top-secret deployment was revealed by an Australian magazine.It will be the first time Australians have manned a gun line on operations since Vietnam...

This coming Tuesday, February 19, PBS’s respected Frontline will air its examination of “what really happened in Haditha,” the show’s introduction saying that’s what we should expect of the program. The show doesn’t meet that goal, and can be criticized for what it does and doesn’t include, meriting a grade of “B-.” That means, the show is definitely worth watching, and deserves a passing grade. Necessary to a full understanding of Haditha, none but a very few have read or remember the hundreds of pages of Haditha Article 32 hearings, the hundreds of serious newspaper articles and blog posts examining...

This coming Tuesday, February 19, PBS’s respected Frontline will air its examination of “what really happened in Haditha,” the show’s introduction saying that’s what we should expect of the program. The show doesn’t meet that goal, and can be criticized for what it does and doesn’t include, meriting a grade of “B-.” That means, the show is definitely worth watching, and deserves a passing grade. Necessary to a full understanding of Haditha, none but a very few have read or remember the hundreds of pages of Haditha Article 32 hearings, the hundreds of serious newspaper articles and blog posts examining...

ZAMBARANIYAH, Iraq - Barely out of a four-day battle, the soldiers scanned palm-dotted farmland from the roof of a small house, kneeling to avoid a sniper's bullet. A pair of Apache gunships hovered above and the occasional thud of artillery shells shook the ground. This front line in the U.S. military's fight against al-Qaida in Iraq lies just 10 miles from the heart of the Iraqi capital. "This is a road we had not traveled on in nearly a year," declared Lt. Col. Mark Solomon, the area's U.S. commander, standing on a dirt lane a dozen yards from the one-story...

Donald Rumsfeld's pride went before his fall--and thousands of needless deaths DONALD RUMSFELD gives Robert McNamara, chief architect of Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam war policy, a good run for his money as worst U.S. defense secretary of modern times. Rumsfeld's competitiveness in this race is freshly illustrated in "Endgame," the newest episode of public television's unrivaled "Frontline" series. The Middle East birthed the world's great monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, Islam. During the past 6 years Washington has produced lesser Gods of One, who believe that the world is as they say it is, or will be as soon as their divine breath...

An examination of a radical-Islamist terror plot to attack Toronto, featuring insights from police informant Mubin Shaikh, who spent two years in the cell that was planning the attacks. CC, Stereo, Letterboxed Educational Taping Rights: 1 year

FRONTLINE/World and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation go inside a terror cell -- believed to be the most serious homegrown cell -- accused of planning mayhem and mass murder in Atlanta and Toronto. Self-proclaimed Muslim fundamentalist Mubin Shaikh, who spent two years inside the cell as a police informant, describes the cell's plots and politics, and the film follows these radical Islamists to the training grounds of Pakistan.

After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America's intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet's CIA for control over intelligence.

First, you have to frame the problem. How to orchestrate a multiple hatchet job on those men who, in a time of national fear and anxiety, stood a trembling nation back on it's feet, and said, "We will respond, and with vigor. No more swatting flies." At the same time, however, you have to find some magic way of presenting those discredited, terminated and bitter ex-employees of the agency which apparently failed in their duties to faithfully watch at the walls, but yet not expose them as bitter, disgruntled employees. Apparently, no one was supposed to notice your one-sided lineup,...

I stumbled across this banner ad for PBS Frontline. An ominous photo of Vice President Cheney with the words "The Dark Side." The banner ad links to this URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/

See for example this thread first. The verdict made me quite surprised to say Ward Churchill plagiarized They say he's a fake! Now for C.U.'s sake a harsh punishment should be devised!

New frontline in the war on terror Experts fear Pakistan is losing fight against an Islamist militant revolt in its tribal belt Declan Walsh in Kundi Ghar Thursday May 4, 2006 The Guardian (UK) As hideouts go, the Shawal Valley in northern Pakistan is a militant's dream. Lonely goat trails wind through a rocky 25-mile corridor that nudges the Afghan border. Its fiercely conservative tribesmen and forbidding high-walled compounds have sheltered Taliban fighters and probably al-Qaida fugitives. Last weekend Brigadier Imtiaz Wyne, a Pakistani army commander, stood on the top of one of its highest peaks and declared his 5,000...

From the frontlines in Iraq Tikrit,-Iraq- …Your flight lands and sends an intense rush of wind and sand against your body. The crew chief waves you on to approach the "bird"; you lumber towards the ramp at the rear of the aircraft in full "battle rattle" and all of your equipment. If it is cold outside your body goes beyond a shiver to a jaw clinching brace

These people can see the handwriting on the wall. First Roberts, then Alito. The U.S. Supreme Court, as Dylan would put it, is a'changing. No wonder liberals hate Bush. They enjoy killing tiny humans. Last night the PBS program, Frontline, ignoring the obvious problem generated by recent decisions that killing a pregnant woman is a double murder, said that resistance to the slaughter of the unborn was detrimental to women's health. The legions of the anti-baby-murder movement are, additionally, racist, since they oppose access to the procedure to poor black single mothers in Mississippi. These poor women, according to the...

AR RAMADI, Iraq (Oct. 26, 2005) -- Some service members walk away with a snack, maybe a can of soda or a pack of cigarettes, but one thing that everyone walks away with is a smile on their face. Traveling from Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, a small group of Marines loads up and heads out to various forward operating bases. Their mission -- to provide a small piece of comfort to service members who don’t have the luxury of an immediate post exchange at their location. Today’s stop is Combat Outpost, located in the heart of Ramadi and the center of...

NEW REVELATIONS BY AMERICAN SOLDIERS OF ABUSE IN IRAQ FRONTLINE Presents “THE TORTURE QUESTION” Tuesday, October 18, 2005, from 9 to 10:30 P.M. ET on PBS Boston, MA -- Another American soldier has come forward to reveal abusive interrogation techniques by military personnel in Iraq. Tony Lagouranis, a former Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib and member of a special intelligence team in Iraq, has given FRONTLINE a firsthand account of his involvement in the harsh treatment of prisoners. “It’s all over Iraq,” Lagouranis told FRONTLINE. “The infantry units are torturing people in their homes. They would smash people’s feet with...

Saw this Frontline special on PBS just now... at times I wanted to scream at the TV. Other times, I wanted to cry because I had no voice to scream. I had to sit and watch the racism card played again. "In the end, perhaps the best for reconciling opinion on both sides is the view expressed by USC professor Todd Boyd, which emphasizes class over race: "Do I think that O.J. murdered those two people? Yes. Do I think he got off for it? Yes. Do I think he's the first person to get away with murder in America?...

CAMP KOREAN VILLAGE, Iraq (August 17, 2005) -- Lance Cpl. Silvio J. Davilaruiz can often be found in his 7-ton truck rolling through the desert sands of Western Iraq, where his fellow Marines from 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion work to rebuild the country. Davilaruiz, a motor transport operator with Headquarters and Support Company, is often out in his 7-ton truck conducting various types of operations to provide support to his infantry counterparts deployed here in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. “We take supplies, such as food and water, to the Marines at the FOBs (forward operating bases). We also...

  A former CIA officer, he was deputy director of the U.S. State Department Office of Counterterrorism, 1989-1993, and now heads the consulting firm Berg Associates. He explains why he believes the U.S. has often exaggerated the terrorist threat and analyzes the danger posed by Osama bin Laden.   So, what are we to make of the embassy attack in Nairobi or the World Trade Center?What we are to make is that terrorism remains a potential threat in the world. I don't think we're ever going to eliminate terrorism, and from that standpoint, we should not dismantle capabilities to combat...

In "Private Warriors," "Frontline" takes a full hour tonight to look at the street-level mayhem in Baghdad and the life-and-death stakes for private security firms, which the United States military employs as protectors and shuttlers in the war zone. The result is appropriately, engagingly upsetting. True to the era of terror, wherever these guardians roam, the enemy does not make himself known until it's nearly too late. The scariest moments in the program occur when a convoy of tinted-window S.U.V.'s ferries "Frontline" journalists to the Green Zone, the government compound in Baghdad, and gets stuck in a mundane logjam on...

Does anyone have a link to where I can download the PBS Frontline episode "Jihad in America"? I had the video on my computer but lost it.

Waco: The Inside Story

After surviving one of the roughest presidential elections in modern times, President George W. Bush singled out one member of his team in particular, calling Karl Rove the campaign's "architect." But Rove, a longtime Bush adviser and confidant, is much more than a political guru, he is also the single most powerful -- and ambitious -- policy adviser in the White House. In "Karl Rove -- The Architect," FRONTLINE® and The Washington Post join forces to trace the political history and modus operandi of the controversial figure who has been on the inside of every major political and policy decision...

Outrageous Episode On US TV (PBS) by Jack Engelhard PBS' Frontline, on the evening of Tuesday, April 5, presented "Settlers in Gaza and the West Bank", perhaps the most one-sided, lopsided view of Israel's settler movement as has ever appeared on American television. Only one conclusion: PBS is determined to stir passions of anti-Semitism and to help Palestinian Arabs in their dreams to destroy the Jewish state. Of the entire 60-minute program (not PBS' finest hour), some 40 minutes were devoted to a bombing that never came off -- against an Arab school by Jewish "extremists". Actual bombings, by the...

They are dedicated to a country without Arabs and democracy. They see themselves at war with secular Israeli society. They believe they are acting out God's will...An investigation of Israeli religious right wing extremeists who are girding for battle to stop Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza.

A closer look at the activities of the Khadr family, details of their life with bin Laden, and the uproar in Canada over the mother and brother's return.

I just finished watching this much heralded documentary. It is now available online, and I advise all Freepers to have a look at it to see a little bit of the heroic efforts of an extraordinary group of men. As a European is is humbling, to watch these lads give it all for their country. It is perhaps borderline posting this in the news section, but I think as many people as possible should see these guys and what they are doing for all of us, not the least the manner they do it in. True giants among men. Cheers.

NEW YORK (AP) -- At least two TV stations will show an uncensored documentary about soldiers in Iraq despite a warning from PBS that it can't insure stations against FCC fines stemming from bad language. The public broadcaster is distributing "clean" and "raw" versions of next Tuesday's "Frontline" documentary about the Iraq war, titled "A Company of Soldiers." It's an example of the television's industry's continued uncertainty about Federal Communications Commission standards for language and content, and a real-life echo of last fall's decision by 66 ABC affiliates not to air the movie "Saving Private Ryan." The documentary contains 13...

NEW YORK -- Worried about the Federal Communications Commission, PBS is taking the words out of the mouths of some soldiers filmed during combat in Iraq. The public broadcaster is distributing "clean" and "raw" versions of next Tuesday's "Frontline" documentary about the Iraq war, titled "A Company of Soldiers," and is warning that it can't insure stations against FCC fines stemming from the language. It's an example of the TV industry's continued uncertainty about FCC standards for language and content, and a real-life echo of a decision made last fall by 66 ABC affiliates not to air the movie "Saving...

Did anyone else see this documentary on PBS? In my area they just got done showing it (or as much of it as I could watch).

The Man Who Knew is the story of the life and death of FBI Special Agent John O'Neill. As the bureau's top counter-terrorism agent, O'Neill had investigated the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen. For six years, O'Neill was the FBI's leading expert on Al Qaeda. He warned of its reach. He warned of its threat to the U.S. He came to believe that the United States should kill Osama bin Laden before Al Qaeda launched a devastating attack on America. But O'Neill's often lonely voice was muted by a headquarters bureaucracy that...

PBS Frontline Special on "Al-Qaeda's New Front" beginning Friday, Jan 28th in many areas.  Visit http://www.pbs.org/ insert your ZIP in the 'When to Watch' box on the left side and search for the 'Frontline' schedule in your area. For all the fear that cyber terrorists will turn the Internet into a weapon of mass disruption, many intelligence experts contend the Web is most effective (or detrimental) as it was designed to be -- as a way to communicate and create community. This essay explores how jihadis are using the Web, plus some of the cyber "tricks" used by terrorists to...

On March 11, 2004, as four early morning commuter trains were arriving at Atocha station in Madrid, a series of bombs were detonated. Packed with commuters and students heading for work and school, the trains were blown apart. Pandemonium ensued. Fractured bodies littered the station and railway tracks, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,400 injured. It was the worst terrorist attack in the history of Western Europe. And it was a grim reminder that the followers of Al Qaeda were very much alive and well. In "Al Qaeda's New Front," airing Tuesday, January 25, at 9 P.M. on...

Freepers - I just learned that I am going to be forced to watch Iraq: Truth, War and Consequences in my classroom. Here is the e-mail I received from the instructor: ---- A few of you have gone ahead and taken the remarkable step of actually reading your syllabus and have discovered there is a video that will need to be viewed outside of class. The name of the video is Iraq: Truth, War and Consequences and was released by Frontline on PBS in November 2003, about a month before Saddam's capture. We will be watching several Frontline videos in...

The roots of George W. Bush's spirituality, his language of God and faith, his views on God and government, and his impact on evangelicals. Who they are, how they differ from fundamentalists and mainstream Protestants, and what will be their vote in the 2004 election. Extended interviews with Bush advisers, political analysts, evangelical leaders, and historians and observers of the evangelical world.

The word from a soldier just back from IraqI have been in the Army for the last seven years. I have gone through the good and bad times in the military. It is a lifestyle that if you do not live every day, you cannot even come close to understanding. I have been to Bosnia, Kosovo, and have just returned from Iraq. I can tell you that no one feels the loss of soldiers more than we do. Even the families do not deal with the emotional pain and stress that we do when we have to pick up the...

Dan Gainor Director, Free Market Project PBS’s Frontline spent most of it’s Tuesday night November 16 program attacking Wal-Mart and blaming it for killing American jobs, contributing to the trade deficit and helping put Rubbermaid out of business. The program titled “Is Wal-Mart good for America?” featured correspondent Hedrick Smith saying the U.S. is “like a third-world country” because we import so many goods from China compared to what we ship them. While Smith did interview Wal-Mart representatives and even a few happy shoppers, much of the report was filled with comments from Wal-Mart detractors and people who blamed the...

On the Frontline of Media Bias 10/14/2004 A two-hour commercial all but endorsing John Kerry for president aired nationwide this week. It was funded, in part, by you, the American taxpayer. When the producers for Frontline, a well-respected documentary program on PBS, contacted our office to set up an interview about President Bush, I couldn't help but be leery of their intentions. At the same time, I felt an obligation to accurately represent a man whom I've come to know and admire over the last decade. But after watching the program this week, I realize that they attempted to...

On November 2nd, Americans will vote in the first wartime election since Vietnam. Like that earlier war, the war in Iraq has exposed deep divisions in how Americans see this country and its place in the world. It has also exposed major differences between the two candidates, George W. Bush and John F. Kerry. "Americans are choosing their next commander in chief. And the two candidates have squared off over the Iraq war," says producer Martin Smith. "These two men couldn't be more different. Bush leads from the gut, Kerry from the head. Bush is drawn to certainty, Kerry embraces...

Okay, maybe I dreamt this, but earlier this year, possibly late last year I was watching (PBS of all things I think) and caught a piece of a documentary that was done by National Geographic ( maybe). It was called something like "Inside the Special Forces." Essentially they were following a SF unit who was raiding homes in Iraq, this was not long after the fall of Baghdad, when taped, well before the current heights of insurgency. Anyway, they showed a home that was being searched, and the unit found suitcases designed for holding bombs, (many of these, bomb making...

Please consider sending a letter to FRONTLINE to suggest they pursue the possibility of airing Don North's documentary. FRONTLINE 125 Western Avenue Boston, MA 02134 Fax: 617-300-1001 Web Site: http://www.pbs.org/frontline/ » How can I submit a story idea? Story ideas can be sent to the above address, to the attention of the FRONTLINE Series Editor. FRONTLINE welcomes suggestions from our viewers and we review all letters and ideas. We produce approximately 18 new programs each season and evaluate over 600 program suggestions and proposals.

THE WAY THE MUSIC DIED PBS Airdate: Thursday, May 27, at 9 P.M., 60 minutes In the recording studios of Los Angeles and the boardrooms of New York, they say the record business has been hit by a perfect storm: a convergence of industry-wide consolidation, Internet theft, and artistic drought. The effect has been the loss of billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, and that indefinable quality that once characterized American pop music. “It’s a classic example of art and commerce colliding and nobody wins,” says Nic Harcourt, music director at Los Angeles’s KCRW-FM. “It’s just a train wreck.” In...

THE KILLER AT THURSTON HIGH Thursday, May 13, 60 minutes FRONTLINE [Repeat] 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings) In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, fifteen-year-old Kip Kinkel shot his father in the head and waited in the garage for his mother to come home. He told her he loved her before shooting her six times. He then went into his bedroom, listened to his favorite music, and strapped ammunition to his body. The next morning, Kip drove the family car to Thurston High and opened fire in the school cafeteria. In the end, two...

Photo courtesy of WGBH Boston "Frontline" examines President Bush's religiosity in tonight's segment, "The Jesus Factor." It also shows how his religious views mirror those of the country's buregoning evangelical movement. Public television tonight takes a look at "the most openly religious president in recent times." But don't expect an hour of diatribes against President George W. Bush and his blending of faith and politics. What you'll see tonight on "Frontline," which airs at 9 p.m. on KPBS/Channel 15 with some repeats, is an evenhanded, even cautious, examination of the former Texas governor who years ago told a group...