[VIDEO]: Corporate Media ‘Asleep at the Wheel’ as Democracy fails
Brad Friedman at Common Cause “Media Reform Conference”
therawstory Two more GOP senators break from Bush on Iraq Ron Brynaert Two more Republican senators have gone public with their dissatisfaction with President Bush’s Iraq war strategy, but the White House still doesn’t view the internecine feuding during wartime as a “hemorrhaging of support,” since hardly any GOP lawmakers have aligned with Democrats to…
rights organizations, published its report to challenge the findings of a self-assessment the U.S. government filed with the U.N. Committee on Ending Discrimination (CERD) last April. The United States ratified human rights standards from the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in 1994 (meaning they have the force of…
America’s growing economic dependence on the hi-tech defense industry is creating a culture that views peace and nonviolence as seditious concepts. By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone March 2, 2007 …A country that feeds itself through the manufacture of war technology is bound to view peace, nonviolence and mercy as seditious concepts. It will create policies first…
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy refuses to acknowledge his shielding of the president, nor the subject of impeachment in general despite his State’s clear mandate on the issue. Watch him unskillfully dodge and weave around this question:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Five years after he green-lighted the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, President Bush faced strikingly low approval ratings as he reaffirmed his commitment to “accept no outcome but victory” in the war. A poll out Wednesday finds that 67 percent of those surveyed disapprove of President Bush. Just 31 percent of Americans approve…
Pentagon’s number two suggests terror war will end in Oct. 2008 Michael Roston – Published: Wed February 28, 2007 The Department of Defense’s number two official appears to imply in a memo that the Global War on Terrorism will end just in time for the presidential election in November 2008. The contents of the document…