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American Legion and VFW Launch Pro-War Lobby & PR Campaigns

by John Stauber — August 16, 2007 - 8:22am

The Boston Globe reports "the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the nation's oldest and most influential veterans' organizations, have broken their relative silence on the merits of the Iraq war, joining some of the staunchest war supporters to lobby Congress and the public...

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Boston Globe, August 16, 2007

SourceWatch Tracks the Pro-War Lobby and Vets for Freedom

by John Stauber — August 15, 2007 - 8:37am
  • Topics: Citizen Journalism, Right Wing, Iraq, Front Groups, Terrorism, Third Party Technique, U.S. Congress, Lobbying, Public Relations, War / Peace

    • SourceWatch citizen journalist Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a dogged and prolific investigator of the pro-war lobby. AI began digging into the pro-war front group Vets for Freedom in June 2006. AI's research exposing the neoconservative agenda and Republican operatives behind VFF has been used by scores of journalists. Just do a Google search for "Vets for Freedom" and you'll find AI's work in our SourceWatch article right at the top of your returns, next to the VFF's own website.

    Pro-war funding appears plentiful for VFF as it gears up to lobby Congress in September. Here's some of the latest from AI and the VFF article on SourceWatch:

    Melanie Morgan Still Wants to Kill

    by Sheldon Rampton — July 25, 2007 - 9:36am
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    Media Matters for America, July 20, 2007

    A Black Day for Yellow Journalism

    by Sheldon Rampton — July 13, 2007 - 3:42pm
  • Topics: Right Wing, Pundits, Corporations, Media, Think Tanks

    • Former media mogul Conrad Black has been convicted by a Chicago jury of three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice and could face up to 35 years in prison for looting his former company, Hollinger International, of tens of millions of dollars.

    Before his downfall, Black was a smaller-scale version of Fox-TV owner Rupert Murdoch, building a media empire that he used to inject his right-wing views into U.S., Canadian, British and Australian politics. He pumped money into the pockets of the neoconservative pundits who helped sell the war in Iraq and gave them prominent voice in his own newspapers.

    From Bank to Tank: Wolfowitz Lands Back at AEI

    by Bob Burton — July 5, 2007 - 2:13pm

    One of the architects of the war in Iraq for the Bush Administration and former World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, has landed a role as a Visiting Scholar at the conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute.

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    Washington Post, July 3, 2007

    Supply Side Pundits

    by Bob Burton — July 2, 2007 - 9:59pm

    Karl Grossman, a professor of journalism at the State University of New York and host of the nationally aired TV program Enviro Close-Up, recounts that the "overwhelming majority" of the pitches he and his producer receive are from "conservative public relations companies promoting conservative guests." Grossman observes that "in terms of volume and intensity, there's nothing comparable from the progressive world.

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    Extra! September/October 2006

    Neo-cons Spinning Hearts and Minds

    by Sheldon Rampton — June 29, 2007 - 11:49am

    "As the George W. Bush administration struggles through its last two years in office, it appears that the agenda of neoconservative ideologues has finally lost its appeal among strategic parts of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus," writes Khody Akhavi.

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    Inter Press Service (IPS), June 24, 2007

    Michael Evans, A General in God's Army

    by John Stauber — June 14, 2007 - 8:10am

    Bill Berkowitz reports on the rise of Michael D. Evans: "In recent appearances on two U.S. cable news networks, he was slinging and zinging -- the well-rehearsed pitchman for the Biblical 'End Times' was dead certain that 'Iran is going to have to be attacked' before 2008.

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    IPS, June 13, 2007

    Keep the Sticks and Stones Away From O'Reilly

    by Diane Farsetta — May 3, 2007 - 2:44pm

    "Using analysis techniques first developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis," Indiana University media researchers analyzed six months' worth of

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    Indiana University press release, May 2, 2007
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