Army Flacks Miss the Point on Guantanamo
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Twenty Army National Guard public information officers based in Madison, Wisconsin, will soon begin a year-long s
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U.S. News Media in Quite a State
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"The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago," opens the latest "State of the News Media" report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Among the major findings is that the Internet is not yet the democratizing media force many hoped for.
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Mainstream Media, MoveOn, Ignored Iraq Veterans' 'Winter Soldier' Investigation
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Kelly Dougherty, the former sergeant who is the executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), announced on March 13th the start of the group's three-day Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan investigation into the United States' conduct of its wars, featuring testimony of scores of anti-war vet
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Teacher Warns Students About War Propagandist John Rendon
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Steve Runge, an instructor at Northeastern University in Boston, is raising a red flag about a controversial lecturer. "John Rendon of the Rendon Group will be addressing the College of Business Administration Thursday afternoon.
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Canada's Groupthink Tanks on Afghanistan
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As the debate over Canada's military mission in Afghanistan continues, the country's "Department of National Defence is ... spending millions of dollars sponsoring think tanks and scholars to offer up agreeable commentary," writes University of Ottawa professor Amir Attaran. "Take the Conference of Defence Associations, a think tank that got $500,000 from DND last year. ...
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U.S. Air Force Wants More Air Time
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The U.S. Air Force "wants to more than double its advertising budget ... to $112.5 million," reports the Air Force Times.
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AAEI - How Democrats Took Over and Betrayed the Peace Movement
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Matt Taibbi analyzes how "Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq and betrayed the peace movement for their own political ends." He faults the MoveOn-led Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, "a political tool for the Democrats -- one operated from inside the Beltway and
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Rather than Surrender to Terror, Romney Quits
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Mitt Romney has suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that if he continued it would "be making it easier for Senator Clinton or Obama to win" and that he cannot
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North American Governments Ponder How Best to Boost Their Wars
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"A key part of Ottawa's public relations campaign" in support of its controversial military mission in Afghanistan is frequent phone calls where "senior federal officials ...
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Freedom's Watch Wants to be the Right's MoveOn
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Bill Berkowitz reports, "a number of right wing groups have been contending for the unofficial designation of the conservative version of MoveOn.org, the liberal grassroots lobbying organization. These days, Freedom's Watch appears to have a leg up on them all. ...
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