On Dec-16th Veterans for Peace and a lineup of high-profile dissenters engaged in civil disobedience at the White House to End War. 131 people were arrested including Daniel Ellsberg and FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley. The reason I mention Ellsberg and Rowley is because they were interviewed a few days prior to the protest by Keith Olberman and Rachael Maddow on MSNBC.

Although, Olberman and Maddow obviously consider themselves rather elegant intellectual opponents of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, neither bothered to report on the protest or the arrests. When those who pose as friends of the peace movement behave like this it is the worst kind of confirmation we can get about the callous nature of the corporate media.

Ironically, the protest took place as President Barack Obama was unveiling a new report on progress of the war in Afghanistan. One NBC network White House correspondent filed a report on the Obama event while standing a few dozen yards from where the protest had taken place but did not mention it.

I did not see any video of the peace protest anywhere in the corporate media. However I did find an excellent piece on the Internet.

In the video below, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City, presented an extraordinarily anti-war soliloquy that was inter-cut with interviews with Veterans from recent wars.

We have some difficult days ahead in 2011. Let me assure you BlackCommentor.com will not ease up in the struggle for economic justice, social justice and peace.

All of us here at BC wish for you and your loved ones a peaceful, happy and healthy New Year.

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