Sheila Samples: Butt Prints In The Sand
Because in life, there comes a time, When one must fight, and one must climb, When we must rise and take a stand, Or leave our butt prints in the sand.
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It’s time.
Before this obscene, gaping hole gets any deeper, it’s time we convinced the media to stop digging. As someone once said...and said...and said — time is not on our side. Storm clouds are gathering on the dashboard of our democracy. We must act, sooner rather than (…)
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War Crimes: Bush Indicted on 13 Counts: US Corp. Media Shields Disgrace
10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Slaughter Leads Charge To Compel House Vote On Gannongate Probe
8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsSlaughter Leads Charge To Compel House Vote On Gannongate Probe Mike Hudson March 08, 2005 Don’t put Rep. Louise Slaughter on the "pay no mind" list.
The congresswoman, who serves as ranking member on the House Rules Committee, has joined the ranking members of the Judiciary, Government Reform, Homeland Security and Ways and Means committees to author what is known as a Resolution of Inquiry, which would require the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to release (…) -
Bush takes questions from male prostitute, refuses veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas
7 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsHelen Thomas, who spoke at Siena College’s First Woman President symposium Friday, also had plenty to say about serving as a White House correspondent for United Press International. Not all of it was encouraging.
"This president (Bush) doesn’t think he has to answer any questions. ... He even says (during press conferences) this is scripted," bemoaned Thomas, 83, who gave up her reporter job to become a syndicated columnist two years ago and routinely trashes Bush on economic and military (…) -
ALERT: MEDIA COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES
23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 comments’’ Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.’’ - Jean Rostand
NUREMBERG - ARTICLE SIX - February 23, 2005
On February 13, The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples‚ initiative, declared much of the Western media guilty of deception and incitement to violence in its reporting on Iraq. The tribunal, meeting in Rome, made its pronouncement after taking testimony from (…) -
Censorship of the Media Creating Insidious Chill on Free Expression on our Airwaves
18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby US Rep. Bernie Sanders
The following is a 2/16/2005 floor statement by Rep. Bernard Sanders in opposition to The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act 2005:
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this legislation.
Mr. Speaker, I think we can all agree that we do not want our children exposed to obscenity on the public airwaves. That goes without saying.
As someone who last year voted in favor of similar legislation, I am increasingly alarmed by the culture of censorship that seems to be (…) -
Media Held Guilty of Deception at World Tribunal
16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsA peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq.*
The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples initiative seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq made its pronouncement Sunday after a three- day meeting. The tribunal heard testimony from independent journalists, media professors, activists, and member of the European Parliament Michele Santoro.
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Secrecy, Torture, Propaganda Mark New American Politburo Practices
14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Secrecy, Torture, Propaganda Mark New American Politburo Practices Bill Gallagher February 15, 2005 Detroit - Like their Soviet predecessors, the top leaders of the American politburo — Dick Cheney and George W. Bush — never admit their mistakes or acknowledge their authoritarian policies and police-state oppression. The very thought of apologizing for failures and injustice — no matter how disastrous and obvious — is repugnant to such regimes. Comrades Cheney and Bush get away with (…)
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Slaughter Spearheads Investigations Into Phony White House "Journalist"
14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsSlaughter Spearheads Investigations Into Phony White House "Journalist" Mike Hudson February 15, 2005
Call it "Gannongate."
Responding to a Feb. 8 Niagara Falls Reporter editorial, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter last week called on President George Bush to explain how a person operating under an assumed name and with no journalistic background managed to obtain access to the White House briefing room regularly for the past two years.
Additionally, Slaughter and Rep. John Conyers of (…) -
CNN executive admits twelve journalists targeted and killed by American troops in Iraq
10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsThe head of CNN’s news division, Eason Jordan, ignited an Internet firestorm last week when he told a panel at a World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that the American military had targeted journalists during operations in Iraq.
Mr. Jordan, speaking in a panel discussion titled "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" said "he knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank, a (…) -
Larry King bumps military mom from show- Are the "news" networks afraid of the truth?
2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
34 commentsNot Worth It
I was supposed to be on the Larry King Live show last night. I was asked to be on the show to offer my opinion on the election in Iraq from the perspective of a mom whose son was killed in the war prior to the elections. One of the questions I was going to be asked was: Do I think my son sacrifice was worth it? Well, I didn’t get a chance to be on the show last night, because I was bumped for something that is really important: The Michael Jackson Trial.
If I was allowed to (…)