There is a growing consensus in the United States that mainstream commercial
media are by and large not mainstream at all but instead are supportive of
the corporate agenda. Of course, the largest media companies (which provide
most...
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18 May 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- It's quite difficult to convince people you are killing them for their own good. That's our basic problem in Iraq.
You can try explaining that you are killing them in order to bring freedom and...
You can try explaining that you are killing them in order to bring freedom and...
12 May 2004
Looking at visual images from U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, news
watchers now find themselves in the midst of a jolting experience that
roughly resembles a process described by Donald Rumsfeld: “It is the
photographs that gives one the...
07 May 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- Let's get real. On Fox So-Called News, former Army Sgt. Tony Robinson was allowed to claim without contradiction that what happened at the prison at Abu-Ghraib was no worse than "fraternity hazing." Rush Limbaugh concurs...
04 May 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- For all I know, we may have just done something smart in Fallujah by hiring ex-Iraqi troops to take it over, but it's sure not what we said we were going to do when we started to go in. Then, the photos from the Abu Ghraib...
29 April 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- And a grand time was had by feminists from all over the nation Sunday, out exercising our right to peaceably assemble and to petition our government for redress of grievances. While we still can.
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