Iraq

Has Fake News Become the Real News?

by Anne Landman — August 18, 2008 - 5:16pm

An article in the New York Times asks whether Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's Daily Show has become the most trusted man in America, pointing out that his fake news

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New York Times, August 15, 2008

New Book Claims White House Ordered CIA to Forge Letter Linking Iraq to 9/11

by Anne Landman — August 5, 2008 - 7:32pm

In a new book, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Ron Suskind charges that in the autumn of 2003, the White House ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to forge and back-date a handwritten letter from the

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Politico.com, August 5, 2008

The Anthrax Cover-up

by Sheldon Rampton — August 5, 2008 - 9:25am
  • Topics: Iraq, Journalism, Terrorism

    • Bruce Edwards Ivins, a top anthrax researcher at the U.S. Government's biological weapons research laboratories, died of an apparent suicide last Tuesday, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the September 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people in the United States. Glenn Greenwald has written an important piece for Salon.com in which he demonstrates, with copious evidence, that a major government scandal lurks behind the anthrax story.

    4,000 U.S. Deaths and a Handful of Images

    by Sheldon Rampton — July 27, 2008 - 9:14pm

    Zoriah Miller, a freelance photojournalist who published images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack in Iraq, has been forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country and may be barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. His case "has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war," write Michael Kamber and Tim Arango.

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    New York Times, July 26, 2008

    The White House Exploited Lynch and Tillman to Market Their Wars

    by Bob Burton — July 16, 2008 - 6:32am

    A U.S. House of Representatives committee has released a report investigating the White House's media management efforts over the death from friendly fire of Army Ranger Pat Tillman and the rescue from an Iraqi hospital of Private Jessica Lynch.

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    United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, July 14, 2008 (Pdf)

    A Deal So Good It Could be Illegal

    by Judith Siers-Poisson — July 14, 2008 - 11:30am

    Former Congressman Curt Weldon's employer Defense Solutions got a good deal in Iraq. So good, that "the deal, for decades-old, equipment, included terms so lopsided, they likely would have been illegal under U.S. law." Defense Solutions got a contract with the Iraqi government in 2005 to refurbish obsolete Soviet-era Hungarian tanks. While U.S. law would dictate that the company's fee be tied to performance, Defense Solutions' contract not only ensures payment, it also gives them a percentage of the total cost.

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    Wired's Danger Room, July 10, 2008

    Obama/Hagel vs McCain/Lieberman on Iraq Policy

    by John Stauber — July 12, 2008 - 9:46am

    Chuck Hagel, "the retiring Nebraskan senator - a prominent Iraq War critic - is the Republican expected to join the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee (Barack Obama) on what is sure to be a closely watched visit to the region. ...

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    Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2008
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