[KFCF Friends] KFCF Presents Aaron Glantz - How America Lost Iraq

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KFCF 88.1 FM presents:  How America Lost Iraq, an evening with Aaron Glantz

Friday, May 27, 2005 at 7:30 pm, Admission $5 at the door
Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno
4144 N. Millbrook Avenue
Fresno

Aaron Glantz is a correspondent for Free Speech Radio News and Pacifica
Radio.  He will provide an on-the-scene account of the Iraq War in its
unvarnished reality.  Aaron has been on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan and
the Middle East filing news reports for radio and print media.

Before producing for FSRN, Aaron he served as Sacramento reporter for
Pacifica's Berkeley station, KPFA, where he began his career in journalism.
His series of reports from Iraq, exclusively for Pacifica.org, called
Pacifica Reports From Iraq. His radio documentary, "Iraq: One Year of
Occupation and Resistance," can be accessed online at www.fsrn.or.  His
recently published book, "How America Lost Iraq" is a journal of his
experiences and observations in the war zones of Iraq.

Aaron Glantz' courageous, unembedded journalism explains the reality of
the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq with a clarity and perspective
sorely lacking in the mainstream media.  He incisively cuts through the fog
of war and Pentagon chatter, getting close to the story, as all journalists
should.  How America Lost Iraq is essential reading as the saber rattling in
Washington continues. --Amy Goodman, host Democracy Now!, co-author:
Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the
Media that Love Them



Ignorance is one of the main reasons of the current conflicts. Fighting it
requires courageous journalists like Aaron Glantz. How America Lost Iraq,
reflects courage and strong willingness to promote truth, and defy lies. 

---Jamal Tahat, collumnist, al-Rai'i newspaper, Amman, Jordan



Good for Glantz!  Aaron puts an ear to the conversations of Iraqi civilians
and reveals just how little Americans have understood. He does what the
embedded media can't and takes a look at the US military through the
perspective of Iraqi people. How did US soldiers go from being liberators
(in some Iraqi's eyes) to oppressors in just a few short months. Find out. A
fascinating piece of intrepid reporting. Well done.

--Laura Flanders, host The Laura Flanders Show on Air America Radio and
author of Bushwomen



Bushs war was sold with propaganda echoed by media from Fox to the New
York Times.  Brave, young, independent journalist Aaron Glantz learned
first-hand the painful lessons that  every American had better understand to
prevent future military escapades that undermine real security and freedom.
Shut off your TV, put down the paper, and read the gripping truth of How
America Lost Iraq.
-- John Stauber, co-author, Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of
Propaganda in Bushs War on Iraq



Glantz's account is full of interviews with ordinary Iraqis, and from their
evolving thoughts and experiences he builds a critique of the many American
misconceptions about Iraq, one that castigates equally the left's knee-jerk
preconceptions, the occupation authorities' cluelessness and heavy-handed
misrule and the media's lack of interest in the suffering of Iraqis. The
result is a nuanced and hard-hitting indictment.

---Publishers Weekly