Means, Methods & Discoveries of BLID Investigative Journalism
Tonight’s show we do something a little bit different. While our focus will be on current foreign policy issues and how they impact the world around us in ways we are not generally aware of, we have also woven into the (this) show some reflections on the purpose of the show on what is its intent and methodology.
World gross wealth inequality has created tremendous amounts of preventable human misery. Bringing Light into Darkness (BLID) focuses primarily on US and world foreign policy issues, their impact on humanity and the historical factors that created such wealth disparities. The darkness is the informational prejudice that Herbert Marcuse described many years ago as a’ universe of informational discourse without opposition’. That certain information, important and contradictory information is largely kept out of that universe of information that has been made available to US news consumers. That which we do not know we cannot consider. Bringing Light Into Darkness (BLID) seeks to bring to light exactly that, important ‘pieces of the puzzle’, historically and currently speaking, that are generally ignored, misrepresented, or exaggerated. When Sherlock Holmes was trying to solve a crime, he would often turn to his assistant Watson and say, “Watson we need data, data, data more data Watson!” BLID seeks to provide that data necessary to explain and define the crime, so it can then be corrected. The crime we seek to resolve is why is most human misery in the world created not by natural causes but by human behavior? And a major actor we have empirically discovered to be at the heart of generating so much human misery is US & Western foreign policy outcomes. We are told that our foreign policy promotes democracy, but we have discovered something different.
Our method of investigation into the character of our US foreign policy and its interventions worldwide is primarily predicated not on how those interventions impact the few, but instead by examining empirically what impact, what outcomes have these interventions had on the majority population interests of each country we have intervened in. Put simply it is as Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan asked at the debate with Jimmy Carter, on 10/28/1980, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” We use the same measuring stick and present half dozen or more case studies of US foreign policy outcomes accordingly. The outcome is undeniable and in complete contradiction to the mantra that we seek to promote democracy.
Please join us tonight and judge this show’s content and help make those accountable who have betrayed our democracy,
