[VIDEO]: Corporate Media ‘Asleep at the Wheel’ as Democracy fails
Brad Friedman at Common Cause “Media Reform Conference”
“It’s great to see that so many people (and towns and cities and states) want Bush impeached, but frankly, the grassroots efforts will only be successful if we all DEMAND that our elected representatives actually DO something to represent the will of the people, and bring articles of impeachment. Here’s what needs to be done….
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. More than half of the members of Iraq’s parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story. On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq’s parliament rejected the continuing…
commondreams.org Published on Thursday, May 11, 2006 by Consortium News Hey Democrats, Truth Matters! by Robert Parry My book, Secrecy & Privilege, opens with a scene in spring 1994 when a guest at a White House social event asks Bill Clinton why his administration didn’t pursue unresolved scandals from the Reagan-Bush era, such as the…
Petraeus admits to rise in Iraq violence By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer BAGHDAD — Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, acknowledged today that violence had increased since Sunni Arab militants declared an offensive during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “Certainly Al Qaeda has had its Ramadan surge,”…
By David Chard, opednews.com In a Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the Boston Globe, Charlie Savage courageously published details of Bush’s outrageous “signing statements” added to new legislation. As you can see from the examples quoted from Savage’s story(Boston Globe, April 30, 2007) below, the intention of each statement is to allow an “executive loophole” whereby…