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“I Was a Mouthpiece for the American Military” An embedded TV producer’s frank assessment Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006. By Ken Silverstein.
In an interesting interview published this week in Foreign Policy, Newsweek’s Rod Nordland spoke about the difficulties of reporting from Iraq. He said that the Bush Administration has been largely successful in managing the news “to the extent that most Americans are not aware of just how (…)
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“I Was a Mouthpiece for the American Military”
8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Be ALL you can be!..New Open US Army policy
8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsWatch out Iraqis
our Army’s more loose
we still don’t want gays
or girls in men’s shoes.
But we now appeal to illegal types
who’ve recently crawled through
underground pipes.
We reach out to coke-heads and winos for sure
and also are hiring insane without cure.
Did you notice, pal, today in the news?
the Army is now getting skinheads in crews?
Our proud military accepts White Supreme guys
militias and Nazis, yes they’re on the rise!
Truly the phrase, "Be all you can be" (…) -
New crimes of the USA troops in Iraq
7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsNew crimes of the USA troops in Iraq
Another time, some kind American disclose one of the crimes committed by the USA troops in Iraq, then western media, publish such news. It was the multiple crimes that Steven D. Green committed on the Iraqi family in Mahmudiyah , south of Baghdad. The USA soldier Green has raped then killed and burned a 15 year old girl, Abeer Qasim Hamza and all of her family. The soldier also killed mother of the gril, Fakhriyah Taha Muhsin, 34; father of the (…) -
Spreading Cancer: Depleted uranium turns Bush’s lies into high-tech horror
7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Robert C. Koehler
The unending game of “pretend” that the U.S. media allow George Bush to play on the global stage, so often letting his lying utterances hang suspended, unchallenged, in the middle of the story, as though they were plausible - as though a class of third-graders couldn’t demolish them with a few innocent questions - feels like the journalistic equivalent of waterboarding. Gasp! Some truth, please!
I suggest the prez has forfeited the right to command a headline, or (…) -
Stars And Stripes" Lands Exclusive, And Revealing, Bush Interview
7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
4 comments"Stars And Stripes" Lands Exclusive, And Revealing, Bush Interview By E&P Staff Published: July 05, 2006 3:20 PM ET NEW YORK When Stars and Stripes nabbed anexclusive interview with President Bush on July 4 — aboard Air Force One — it devoted most of the questions to ones submitted by service members.
One, put to the commander-in-chief by the newspaper’s Jeff Schogol: Has he attended even one funeral for a fallen soldier from Iraq? No, he replied. “Because which funeral do you go to? (…) -
The End Game of Israel’s Offensive
7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsBy Nicola Nasser* Three years after the U.S. invasion to change the Iraqi regime, Washington’s strategic regional ally, Israel, has launched a massive military operation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to force another regime change in the Middle East, with an end goal to incapacitate the Palestinian Authority and rule it out as a negotiating partner. Israel’s pretexts are a capture of an Israeli soldier in a daring attack, attacking Israeli communities by Palestinian home-made (…)
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Shadows On The Wall
7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentShadows On The Wall Sheila Samples, Arab News Thursday, 6, July, 2006 And so we Americans sit, shackled by self-imposed chains of fear, captivated by shadowy forms that move discordantly across the walls of our perception. Once again we are eager to accept appearance for reality.
The Supreme Court ruling last week rejecting President George W. Bush’s military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees casts a huge shadow on the wall. Many are saying it not only curbed Bush and Cheney’s (…) -
In Cold Blood: Iraqi Tells of Massacre at Farmhouse
6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
A cousin describes finding the shot and shattered bodies. A U.S. soldier is in custody.
by Raheem Salman and J. Michael Kennedy BAGHDAD - He was the first to enter the charred farmhouse where the bodies of his relatives lay strewn about the floor, shot and bludgeoned to death.
And he watched more than three months later as a U.S. Army officer took the two surviving children in his arms, barely able to hold back tears as he told them that the people who had killed their family would be (…) -
AMERICA ALL FOXXED UP
6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentFOX NEWS is the self proclaimed network that America turns to for fair and balanced news’ ....Is hiring war-mongering DLC Democrats toface-off ’ against war-mongering GOP neocons an exhibition of balance ? ...FAIR AND BALANCED ?.... How are the paid ,debauched `on-air personalities’ at FOX NEWS able to utter such errant nonsense without cracking up on air ? ..... Where do they find human refuse - so desperate for face time on TV as to traduce their self respect ?... They are BOBBLE-HEADS (…)
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Blood On Our Hands
6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBlood On Our Hands One Month After Pundits And Editorialists, Following The Lead Of The President, Declared (Yet Again) New Hope In Iraq, The Death Toll Is Soaring And Alleged Atrocities Mount. Who, Now, Will Dare Speak Up? By Greg Mitchell (July 05, 2006) - By now, the routine is not just appalling, but disgraceful. Some halfway positive event occurs in Iraq, the president urges patience while declaring strong progress, and editorial writers and pundits — from respected columnists such as (…)