{"id":164874,"date":"2020-07-13T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=164874"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T07:31:25","slug":"13th-anniversary-collateral-murder-video-us-military-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/07\/13th-anniversary-collateral-murder-video-us-military-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Anniversary: Collateral Murder Video & US Military Cover Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>11 Jul 2020 – <\/strong>Chris Hedges talks to journalist Dean Yates, who was head of the <\/span><\/em>Reuters<\/span>‘ Baghdad bureau on 12 July 2007, <\/strong>when two of his employees–Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen–were shot and killed by the U.S. Army, which tried to cover up the war crime. The killing of the reporters and others was recorded on the now-infamous video <\/span><\/em>Collateral Murder<\/span> leaked by Chelsea Manning and released by <\/span><\/em>WikiLeaks<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist<\/strong> who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\u00a0<\/em>The New York Times,\u00a0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for\u00a0<\/em>The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, and<\/em> NPR. Until this month, he wrote a weekly column for the online magazine\u00a0<\/em>Truthdig. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated <\/em>RT America show\u00a0<\/em>On Contact.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Hedges talks to journalist Dean Yates, who was head of the Reuters’ Baghdad bureau on 12 July 2007, when two of his employees–Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen–were shot and killed by the U.S. Army, which tried to cover up the war crime. The killing of the reporters and others was recorded on the now-infamous video Collateral Murder leaked by Chelsea Manning and released by WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[867,1161,1188,918,1451,1899,120,267,1126,260,487,1050,504,950,741,291,1105,780,769,91,86,112,109,287,95,70,126,118,965,172,921,113,75],"class_list":["post-164874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anglo-america","tag-arms-industry","tag-arms-race","tag-assange","tag-chelsea-manning","tag-colateral-murder","tag-conflict","tag-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-imperialism","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-military-intervention","tag-military-supremacy","tag-nato","tag-occupation","tag-pentagon","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-war-crimes","tag-west","tag-whistleblowing","tag-wikileaks","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}