BIFOLD:CNFLCT host: Anthony Lappé
2007.Aug.21. Tuesday - by lvhrd
credits: GNN
Anthony Lappe in Baghdad
Anthony is an author and film producer whose work has taken to Baghdad and back. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Details, Paper, The Fader and Vice, among many others.
Check out Anthony’s blog, “The Bunker,” on GNN and join him next Tuesday for BIFOLD: CNFLCT when he hosts a discussion on the way conflict shapes the artistic narrative.
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Aug.23.2007 : 5:42 pm
an interesting choice to host yer conflict peice, seeing how anthony worked for the USIA (that’s the US equal of the politbureau) in the late 90’s. Anthony was an agent sent to Ramallah to train young up and coming Palestinian journalists the basics of journalism. This was a condition of US aid (which was cut off shortly after) to the Palestinians. Anthony refuses to discuss any of his activities, give any of the names of the journalists he worked with, or give the name of the person that recruited him (it was someone working out of the Jerusalem embassy, y’know kinda like CIA agent plame).
Anthony producer buddy and co-GNN founder Ian Inaba, is also on the board of directors of checkpoint technologies, run by ex (well as ex as they get, which ain’t that ex), ex-Isreali Defence Forces special intel agent Gil Shwed (of Unit 8200 of the IDF).
Lappe’s POV is clearly seen in the propaganda rag “shooting war” in which Iraqi children are depicted as suicide bombers…
have fun at yer party kiddies
Aug.23.2007 : 7:27 pm
Couple of edits: Politburo and the USIA - not the same, at all. Valerie Plame: an officer not an agent, who worked out of a front company in DC not an embassy. Nice lady, we used to do Tequila shots back in my training days at the Farm. Finally, there are no children suicide bombers in Shooting War.
Aug.24.2007 : 10:42 am
The Farm is where they train CIA agents.