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Google Teams With Verizon To Undermine Net Neutrality

According to this New York Times report, the agreement between Verizon and Google could overthrow the policy known as net neutrality, in which no form of content is favored over another. In its place, consumers could soon see a new, tiered system, which, like cable television, imposes higher costs for premium levels of service.

Health Care Reform Victimized By Greed

Despite the Obama administration's appeal for a government run alternative to corporate healthcare insurance, the lobbyists have descended on the house and senate, pushing the legislation in directions that the insurance and drug companies will like more than the poor and uninsured.

Health Care Insurance Industry Whistleblower Speaks

Wendell Potter, who worked for twenty years in the health insurance industry,speaks about how the large insurance companies are standing in the way of health care reform.

AntiWar404

Since the start of the World Wide Web thousands of anti-war and pro-peace projects have already come and gone. Now GetPeaceful presents a first-ever collection of its kind documenting the traces of anti-war movements that have disappeared. Contemporary search engines have a tendency to make dead websites disappear quietly. AntiWar404 counteracts some of the resulting amnesia, offering a concise record of the peace movement forgotten by Google.

No War With Iran Protests

Several thousand people participated in a march from Times Square to Union Square in New York City on August 2nd. Protesters called for the US and Israel to stop their threats of war against Iran. Chants along the route also called for troops to be brought home from Iraq.

CBS Conceals Ignorant McCain Comments

In a move that telegraphs the editorial ambitions of CBS News, Katie Couric's interview with McCain regarding the 'surge' in Iraq was sanitized to conceal McCain's embarrassing misunderstanding of the sequence of events in Iraq in 2006 and 2007. Taken together with Joe Lieberman's correction of McCain's repeated claims that Iran trains al Qaeda militants, the omitted error in the Couric interview paints a picture of a candidate who doesn't really know much about what's going on in the Middle East.

Fifty Permanent Bases Sought In Iraq

While the New York Times reports that the United States ambassador to Iraq has dismissed any suggestion that the Bush administration is maneuvering to set up permanent military bases in Iraq, the British paper The Independent reports otherwise.

Probe of Media Generals Sought

The secret, unacknowledged coordination between the Pentagon and the purportedly independent spokesmen, as reported by the New York Times, has been smothered with silence by the news chiefs and on-air hosts at CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS. The media has failed to come to terms with the way it was manipulated. Media organizations are supposed to be skeptical of authority, and evenhanded in their approach to public policy issues. This story illustrates how badly they fail in these functions.

Obama Won Texas Despite Spin To The Contrary

Since the Texas primary and caucus, misinformation about the results has been prevalent in mass media news and commentary. Although the official results were strangely slow in appearing after the Texas caucus, it became clear within the first week that Obama actually won more delegates. Despite this, cable news programs have continued to spread the lie that Clinton won Texas.

Halliburton Avoids Taxes Via Cayman Islands Shell Corporation

Kellogg Brown and Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven.

On Walmart Board Clinton A Company Woman

In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers.

Iraq Refugees Not Our Problem

As Whitehouse propaganda and uncritical corporate news organs chirp about the great progress in Iraq, it goes almost unmentioned that 2007 was the deadliest year of the war for American troops, and millions of Iraqi civilians continue to pay an enormous price for the hubris of Bush administration policies.

Obama Opposed War While Clinton Supported It

The record from October 2002 shows that there were major differences between the two presidential contenders, with Senator Clinton supporting the Bush push for war and its exaggerated claims about alleged Iraqi military prowess while Obama was opposing a U.S. invasion of that oil-rich country and openly challenging exaggerated claims of an Iraqi threat.

Climate Action This Decade Or Else

Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, according to a new United Nations report.

Draft Dodger Cheney Seeks War With Iran

A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear program, and thus make the document more supportive of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran, according to accounts of the process provided by participants to two former Central Intelligence Agency officers.

No Evidence Of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

Despite claims by Bush that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, experts in and out of government say there is no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program.

Nuclear Strike By United States Goes Virtually Unreported

The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two strategic US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a nuclear site under construction.

American Media Fails To Cover War Protests

Although public opinion is running strongly against the war in Iraq, and tens of thousands of people protested the war on October 27th, news organizations barely mentioned the events.

Republican Contender Confuses Obama and Bin Laden

Not once but twice Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney confused Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden in a campaign speech.

Arms Industry Backs Clinton Candidacy

The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favorite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months....