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The IFC Media Project: Bill Kristol & Pentagon Propaganda
Posted by Huffington Post on 03 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Commentary, Journalism, Iraq War, U.S. Military
Bill Kristol pooh-poohed our series because our piece on the Pentagon’s propaganda tactics had featured retired General Barry McCaffrey. Kristol’s protestations were entertaining at the time, but now there is another bombshell article in the NY Times about - who else? - Barry McCaffrey…
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FBI Prevents Agents from Telling ‘Truth’ About 9/11 on PBS
Posted by MediaChannel on 07 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, 9/11, FBI, Iraq War, U.S. Military
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By Jeff Stein, SpyTalk The FBI has blocked two of its veteran counterterrorism agents from going public with accusations that the CIA deliberately withheld crucial intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. |
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Truth and war mean nothing at the party conferences
Posted by New Statesman on 26 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Europe, War Watch, U.S. Military, Agenda Setting
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By John Pilger, New Statesman The media turns the other way, or perverts the truth, while an increasingly imperialist United States, with Britain in tow, pursues its expansionist interests. |
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Iraq From the Inside (Audio)
Posted by Truth Dig on 03 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: News, Commentary, Middle East, Iraq War, U.S. Military
In 2007, Iraqi journalist Huda Ahmed received the Courage Award for Journalism for her coverage of the war in Iraq. Now a refugee, she looks back on more than five years of war and occupation from an Iraqi perspective.
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Special Report: Ivins Anthrax Case Another Black Eye for Network News
Posted by BradBlog on 14 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: North America, Commentary, Pentagon, FBI, U.S. Military, Security, Terror
In covering one of the most historic criminal investigations in our nation’s history, the worst bioterrorism attack on U.S. soil, the overall tenor and quality of network reporting has been nothing short of disgraceful.
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Al Jazeera: Military and Media Special
Posted by MediaChannel on 12 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: North America, VIDEO, Middle East, U.S. Military
Listening Post reports on how the media may be encouraging young people to go to war.
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Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News
Posted by Salon on 01 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, Cheney, U.S. Military, USPS, ABC News, Security, Terror, propaganda, Agenda Setting
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By Glenn Greenwald, Salon ABC News should reveal who concocted and fed them the false “Saddam/anthrax” reports. This is one of the most extreme journalistic scandals that exists, and it deserves a lot more debate and attention than it has received thus far. |
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Guantanamo Bay interrogation video released
Posted by MediaChannel on 15 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Pentagon, U.S. Military
Lawyers for a Canadian prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay have released a videotape showing him being interrogated. The pictures offer the first glimpse inside the secretive and isolated US prison in Cuba.
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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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Fmr. Military Intelligence Officer Reveals US Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists in 2003
Posted by Democracy Now on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Iraq War, U.S. Military
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By Democracy Now Army Sgt. Adrienne Kinne (Ret.) reveals she saw secret US military documents that listed the hotel as a possible target. |
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Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law
Posted by PR Watch on 30 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Iraq War, U.S. Military, propaganda
The Pentagon military analyst program unveiled in last week’s expose by David Barstow in the New York Times was not just unethical but illegal. It violates, for starters, specific restrictions that Congress has been placing in its annual appropriation bills every year since 1951.
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FOX EXPOSED: The Pentagon is Alright!
Posted by MediaChannel on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Fox News, VIDEO, Pentagon, Iraq War, U.S. Military, propaganda
Networks like Fox News are still parading Pentagon Pundits on air — without mentioning their role in the Defense Department’s propaganda campaign. Tell your senator to launch an investigation now.
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A Guide to NYT Bombshell on Military/Media Propaganda
Posted by Huffington Post on 21 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Bush, Commentary, Pentagon, Cheney, Journalism, Iraq War, U.S. Military, propaganda
Even if it confirms what you have already sensed — you are no dummies — the details are truly damning and shocking. And it continues up to the present day…
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Spitzer v. Fallon: Tales of a Prostituted Press
Posted by Huffington Post on 13 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, U.S. Military
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By Marshall Grossman, Huffington Post What irks me most is that Spitzer’s peccadillo pushed the real news right off the front page: the resignation of Navy Adm. William J. Fallon. |
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Newspaper Websites and White House Disinformation
Posted by Nieman Watchdog on 27 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: USGOP, Bush, Commentary, War Watch, Cheney, Journalism, Iraq War, U.S. Military, Wall Street Journal, Security, propaganda
The Wall Street Journal print edition didn’t mention a recent report that cited more than 935 false statements by top Administration officials. The Journal’s Web site, however, not only mentioned the report–it attacked it.
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