Think Tanks

Alexis Debat: One Well-Connected Faker

by Diane Farsetta — October 4, 2007 - 12:56pm

Over the past month, former ABC News consultant / reporter and self-described "terrorism analyst" Alexis Debat has been exposed for "having published fake interviews with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Alan Greenspan,

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Mother Jones, October 2, 2007

Czech President the Anti-Gore, Says U.S. Think Tank

by Diane Farsetta — September 26, 2007 - 9:00am

"President Vaclav Klaus is getting help from a right-wing U.S. think tank ... to spread a message many see as anti-environmentalist and some Czechs say reflects badly on their country," reports the Prague Post.

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The Prague Post (Czech Republic), September 19, 2007

Outsourcing Firms Bring Lobbying Business to the U.S.

by Diane Farsetta — August 29, 2007 - 3:06pm

"As the 2008 U.S. election starts to sizzle, the Indian outsourcing firms have returned to win Washington over as veritable insiders, slicker and better connected than ever," reports Anand Giridharadas.

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International Herald Tribune, August 15, 2007

When Drug Industry Flacks Attack

by Diane Farsetta — August 17, 2007 - 1:49pm

Following Dr. Steven Nissen's publication of a study warning that "GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia increased the risk of heart attacks by 43% and death from cardiovascular events by possibly 64%," he was publicly pilloried. "More than one story from ostensibly different sources" derisively referred to him as "St Steven," the "Patron Saint of Drug Safety," and "Saint Steven the Pure," reports Evelyn Pringle. Among the attackers was FDA spokesman Douglas Arbesfeld.

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CounterPunch, August 15, 2007

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

Global Warming is STILL Good for You!

by John Stauber — August 9, 2007 - 6:35am

Five years ago in their book "Trust Us We're Experts," CMD's Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber exposed the propaganda machine selling Americans the idea that global warming is good for us.

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Newsweek, August 13, 2007

Bob Burton Takes Readers "Inside Spin"

by Diane Farsetta — August 7, 2007 - 2:08pm

The PR industry in Australia "employs more than 10,000 people and turns over more than $1 billion a year," writes the Center for Media and Democracy's Bob Burton, drawing on research published in his new book, "Inside Spin." While some PR campaigns are benefic

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Sydney Morning Herald, August 7, 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

    How to Cool Down Global Warming

    by Diane Farsetta — July 3, 2007 - 10:29am

    Drawing on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Rolling Stone details the Bush administration's "ongoing strategy to block federal action on global warming." In 2002, the administration's Climate Action Report was reported on as a "stark shift" in U.S. policy.

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    Rolling Stone, June 20, 2007
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