War / Peace

How to End the War in Iraq? MoveOn Answers Its Critics

by John Stauber — March 30, 2007 - 9:57am

Alternet's Don Hazen interviews the founders of MoveOn. He writes, "For the first time ... members of Congress -- at least the new Democratic majority, along with a handful of Republicans -- finally caught up with the population" and "confronted Bush over the financing of the war and a real timeline for ending it. ... The ability to win this first victory was difficult and complex. It was achieved in part with the energetic and savvy support of millions of progressives and particularly MoveOn.org ...

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Alternet, March 30, 2007

Sarah Olson Reports: Opposition to the War Growing Among Troops

by John Stauber — March 29, 2007 - 9:06pm

It was Sarah Olson's reporting on military opposition to the war in Iraq that made her a target of an Army subpoena. That hasn't deterred her from continuing to report on the subject.

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Common Dreams, March 29, 2007

The Promised Land Goes Online

by Diane Farsetta — March 29, 2007 - 12:26pm

"Israel's official MySpace page was launched in January under the direction of officials from the Foreign Ministry," reports Gregory Levey.

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Salon.com, March 23, 2007

Destroying Journalism in Order to Save It

by Sheldon Rampton — March 12, 2007 - 11:43pm

While fleeing an ambush in Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers reportedly opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians and then destroyed photos and video taken at the scene by freelance journalists.

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Miami Herald, March 10, 2007

Ex-NATO Commander Trades Military Power for Lobbying Power

by Diane Farsetta — March 5, 2007 - 3:03pm

"General James L. Jones, who retired last month as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a lobbyist," reports O'Dwyer's.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), March 5, 2007

Pentagon Declares War on Bad News

by Diane Farsetta — February 28, 2007 - 6:53pm

"Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media," reports Kelly Kennedy.

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Army Times, February 28, 2007

One News Source Rejects Unnamed Sources

by Diane Farsetta — February 14, 2007 - 6:24pm

One radio station in Santa Fe, New Mexico has had enough. "It is the policy of KSFR's news department to ignore and not repeat any wire service or nationally published story about Iran, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia or any other foreign power that quotes an 'unnamed' U.S. official," news director Bill Dupuy told his staff. "We should not dutifully parrot whatever comes out of Washington, on the wire or by whatever means, no matter how intriguing and urgent it sounds, when the source is unnamed.

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Editor & Publisher, February 13, 2007

Bush and Iran -- Deja War All Over Again?

by John Stauber — February 13, 2007 - 5:14pm

Craig Unger reports in Vanity Fair magazine that "The same neocon ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same tactic -- alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on WMD -- to push for the bombing of Iran. As President Bush ups the pressure on Tehran, is he planning to double his Middle East bet? ... Whatever the administration's master plan may be, parts of it are already under way. ...

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Vanity Fair magazine, March, 2007

Bush's Fantasy Budget and the Military/Entertainment Complex

by Robin Andersen — February 12, 2007 - 3:41pm
  • Topics: Media, War / Peace

    • Those distressed by the bloated military budget that Bush recently announced should be equally alarmed by corporate media's stake in defense spending, because among other things, it helps shape news, entertainment culture and public attitudes toward war and its weapons. The CBS News report on Bush's budget was typical of the news coverage, describing it as a proposal for "a big increase in military spending, including billions more to fight the war in Iraq, while squeezing the rest of government" -- a euphemism for slashing Medicare and social programs across the board, further impoverishing Americans now sitting on mountains of debt with no medical coverage.

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