Iraq War
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Casus Belli: The Ultimate Spin
Posted by Col. Sam Gardiner, USAF (Ret) on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, USGOP, Bush, Cheney, Middle East, Iraq War, U.S. Military
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By Col. Sam Gardiner Generate a casus belli. Fabricate a situation that causes war. Make it look as if it were the Iranians. It’s the ultimate spin. |
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Terror Goes A Lot Further With Good Advertising
Posted by Truth Dig on 02 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Iraq War
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By Truth Dig A basic argument in Washington’s war on terror concerns whether al-Qaida is the powerful global organization the Bush administration says it is or whether it has been, since its retreat into the Pakistan tribal areas, mostly an Internet phenomenon. |
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US Army releases journalist after four-days of unexplained detention
Posted by Reporters Without Borders on 01 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Middle East, Iraq War
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By Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release of freelance journalist Ahmed al-Majun, president of the local branch of the Iraq journalists’ union in Tikrit. |
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CBS Plans To Appeal Ruling On Haditha Interview
Posted by AP on 27 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Middle East, Iraq War
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By Associated Press CBS News said it plans to appeal a ruling by a military appellate court that ordered a judge to review unaired footage of an interview given by a Marine squad leader from Meriden, Conn., charged in the killings of 24 Iraqis. |
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CBS Plans To Appeal Ruling On Haditha Interview
Posted by AP on 27 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Middle East, Iraq War
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By Associated Press CBS News said it plans to appeal a ruling by a military appellate court that ordered a judge to review unaired footage of an interview given by a Marine squad leader from Meriden, Conn., charged in the killings of 24 Iraqis. |
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Journalists Prohibited
Posted by Niqash on 26 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Middle East, Iraq War
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By Ahmerd Thamer, Niqash Journalists continue to suffer aggressive and humiliating behavior at the hands of Iraqi officials. |
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Retiring Wash Post Editor’s Record Stained By Failure On Iraq
Posted by Huffington Post on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Middle East, Iraq War
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By Greg Mitchell, Huffington Post Since announcing his retirement as executive editor at The Washington Post yesterday, Leonard Downie, Jr. has received well-deserved plaudits from colleagues and peers at other papers. |
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Iran Expresses Anger With US Media
Posted by BigNews on 20 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Middle East, Iraq War
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By BigNews Iran has slammed the US media for what it has called ‘attempts to link Iran to the terrorist attacks in Iraq.’ |
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Islamic Jihad’s Cyber-War Brigades
Posted by Menassat on 18 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Middle East, Iraq War
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By Ola Al-Madhoun, Menassat The Palestinian Islamist movement, Islamic Jihad, says it has a new division of its armed Al-Quds Brigades - a cyberwar unit that claims it has hacked into the websites of several Israeli media outlets. |
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Interview with Lara Marlowe, Foreign Correspondent for the Irish Times
Posted by MediaBite on 16 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Iraq War
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By MediaBite For 12 years Lara Marlowe has covered events from Algeria and Serbia to Iraq and the wider Middle East as well as providing regular reports on events from France where she is based. Since 2003 she has offered a consistently critical account of the Iraq war and occupation. |
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General Petraeus and the ‘Information War’
Posted by NY Observer on 12 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Iraq War
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By Felix Gillette, NY Observer ‘He likes to talk to reporters as he’s walking through the street. He doesn’t like being filmed in front of blown-up buildings.’ |
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60 Months in the Red Zone
Posted by NY Observer on 11 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Iraq War
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By Felix Gillette, Matt Haber and John Koblin, NY Observer Five Years Later, the American Press Corps in Iraq Is War-Weary and Depleted-Also Committed, Engaged and Desperately Seeking a Narrative to Wake Up Readers |
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Mr Russert - Will YOU Ante Up For War Victims Like YOU Asked Of Scott McClellan?
Posted by Linda Milazzo on 10 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Iraq War
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By Linda Milazzo Mr. Russert, Although YOU haven’t accepted any culpability for your own enabling during the lead up to the war as McClellan has stepped-up to do, it’s still a fact that Meet The Press provided a national platform for the Bush administration to push its war with minimal challenge from YOU. |
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March to war
Posted by The Phoenix on 06 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, IR, War Watch, Middle East, Iraq War
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By Adam Reilly, Boston Phoenix Why isn’t the press paying more attention to a possible attack on Iran? |
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Washington Press Corps Not Thrilled With New Book
Posted by New West on 04 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Iraq War
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By Brian Mann, New West Scott McClellen’s scarier revelations involve the people on the other side of his podium: the reporters and editors who cover Washington and who helped to carry the White House message. |
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