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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....

Barack Obama Proposes Tax Overhaul

Asserting that the pain [of poverty] has a way of trickling up, Obama outlined a plan for shifting the tax burden from the poor to the wealthy. He also proposes having the IRS send tax statements for confirmation to tax payers rather than starting with a blank form, and cracking down on off-shore tax havens.

Poll Estimates Civilian Death Toll In Iraq To Be 1200000

The new figure from ORB, a British polling agency that has conducted several surveys in Iraq, supports an earlier study by the Lancet that proceeds from queries about household deaths to global estimates. While the number is necessarily imprecise, neither the Iraqi government nor the U.S. military provides data about Iraqi casualties.

Bush Knew Saddam Had No Weapons of Mass Destruction

On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister.

Iraqi Women Sell Their Bodies To Feed Their Children

The women are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children -- for as little as $8 a day.

Scientists Find American Depleted Uranium Weapons Cause Cancer

Scientists are now saying what people with common sense have been claiming for years: that depleted uranium is a health risk. In their zeal to penetrate armor (what armor?), the Pentagon has failed to see that it cannot liberate people by ruining their environment.

Iraq War Tracking Towards One Trillion Dollars

Despite initial estimates of $50 billion, the present forecast for the coming year will put the total cost of the war in Iraq - for the U.S. alone - to $564 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

Campaign Advertising Enriches Networks

Money is now considered the single most important factor in our electoral process. Ideas and issues take a back seat to the bottom line. This prostitution of our electoral process has one key culprit: television advertising.