Wednesday
Tuesday
Bush Adviser Helped Law Firm Land Job Lobbying for CNOOC: "Members of the intelligence board, known as PFIAB, are granted the highest security clearance and develop top-secret advisories and reports for the president, most of which are not even available to members of Congress....The House Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on the national security implications of the CNOOC bid."
Thursday
Wednesday
TheStar.com - Pliant American press behaving like Pravda in coverage of the U.S. president: "The Senate committee promised last summer to probe what role the White House may have played in concocting the faulty intelligence -- but only after the presidential election.
Once the president was re-elected last fall, the Senate committee chairman, Republican Pat Roberts, simply cancelled the promised investigation of the White House's role, insisting it would be 'a monumental waste of time to replow this ground any further.'
Replow it further? How about plowing it once?"
Once the president was re-elected last fall, the Senate committee chairman, Republican Pat Roberts, simply cancelled the promised investigation of the White House's role, insisting it would be 'a monumental waste of time to replow this ground any further.'
Replow it further? How about plowing it once?"
Tuesday
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | A fiction as powerful as WMD: "The occupation's sectarian discourse has acquired a hold as powerful as the WMD fiction that prepared the public for war. Iraqis are portrayed as a people who can't wait to kill each other once left to their own devices. In fact, the occupation is the main architect of institutionalised sectarian and ethnic divisions; its removal would act as a catalyst for Iraqis to resolve some of their differences politically."
Saturday
Thursday
In Iraq, giving birth is complicated by war - Yahoo! News: "After the 2003 war that toppled
Saddam Hussein, the number of women who gave birth at home shot up to about two-thirds. Of those, 80 percent had nobody with any formal training present at the birth....Violence has prevented medical experts from measuring the maternal mortality rate since late 2003, when the number of Iraqi women who died from childbirth climbed to 370 per 100,000 - triple its 1990 rates and 31 times the US rate of 12."
Saddam Hussein, the number of women who gave birth at home shot up to about two-thirds. Of those, 80 percent had nobody with any formal training present at the birth....Violence has prevented medical experts from measuring the maternal mortality rate since late 2003, when the number of Iraqi women who died from childbirth climbed to 370 per 100,000 - triple its 1990 rates and 31 times the US rate of 12."
Many Kids Still Don't Think Tobacco Is Addictive - Yahoo! News: "'Over the 20-month [child smoking prevention] program, about half the children increased their positive attitudes about smoking.'"
Neither of the news stories, nor the study abstract, identifies the source of the smoking "prevention" materials used by the two large HMOs.
Neither of the news stories, nor the study abstract, identifies the source of the smoking "prevention" materials used by the two large HMOs.
Monday
baltimoresun.com - Firm of EPA nominee linked to Grace: "President Bush has nominated as chief of enforcement for the Environmental Protection Agency a partner in a law firm defending W.R. Grace & Co. against criminal charges in a major environmental case."
Friday
Thursday
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | G8 countries defying arms embargoes, says report: "Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US - account for 84% of all worldwide arms supplies"
Wednesday
Kevin Zeese: an Interview with Col. Sam Gardiner: "The terrorism argument was what propaganda literature would refer to as the big lie. The Administration's objective was to make enough arguments connecting Iraq to terrorism and Bin Laden that the American people would believe Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks. They used a technique called the excluded middle. Iraq supports terrorists. The attacks were by terrorists. Iraq must been behind the 9/11 attacks.
We know the WMD story fairly well. We know the story of the uranium from Niger. We know about the aluminum tubes that were not for uranium enrichment. We know the biological labs Powell showed to the UN did not exist.
Beyond these there are many exaggerations that have gotten very little notice. Let me mention just a few.
A New York Times reporter was told by the Administration that Iraq was buying excess quantities of atropine to get ready for chemical warfare. It turns out the quantities were consistent with the Iraq use of the substance for routine medical purposes.
The President told us in a speech in Ohio that Iraq had drone aircraft that could possible deliver chemical weapons into the United States. When that facility was found, the officers reported that it looked more like a school project than a serious military program.
The Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told the Council on Foreign Relations that Iraq had the capability to attack US computers. They did not.
We were lead to believe a Navy pilot shot down during the first Gulf War was alive and being held in Baghdad. He was not.
We were told on the State Department web sit that Iraq was forming units of children to fight the United States. Iraq did not do that.
We were told the French were supplying air defense missiles to Iraq. That was not ture
There were many more."
We know the WMD story fairly well. We know the story of the uranium from Niger. We know about the aluminum tubes that were not for uranium enrichment. We know the biological labs Powell showed to the UN did not exist.
Beyond these there are many exaggerations that have gotten very little notice. Let me mention just a few.
A New York Times reporter was told by the Administration that Iraq was buying excess quantities of atropine to get ready for chemical warfare. It turns out the quantities were consistent with the Iraq use of the substance for routine medical purposes.
The President told us in a speech in Ohio that Iraq had drone aircraft that could possible deliver chemical weapons into the United States. When that facility was found, the officers reported that it looked more like a school project than a serious military program.
The Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told the Council on Foreign Relations that Iraq had the capability to attack US computers. They did not.
We were lead to believe a Navy pilot shot down during the first Gulf War was alive and being held in Baghdad. He was not.
We were told on the State Department web sit that Iraq was forming units of children to fight the United States. Iraq did not do that.
We were told the French were supplying air defense missiles to Iraq. That was not ture
There were many more."
Los Angeles Times: Worries Raised on Handling of Funds in Iraq: From $12 billion shipped to Iraq "more than $8.8 billion in such funds could not be properly accounted for."
Monday
Sunday
Bush wounded by anger over war - Sunday Times - Times Online: "He's out in the sticks talking about a social security problem that might occur in 2047, and meanwhile the boys in Iraq are getting killed and injured every day," said one officer. "Don't you find that a little odd?"
Thursday
Yacht owned by defense contractor docked at Cunningham's slip North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News: "A defense contractor whose real estate dealings with Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham have raised ethical questions has another connection to Cunningham: He owns a boat docked at a Washington yacht club ---- a boat on which Cunningham stays while working in the Capitol."
Wednesday
TimesDispatch.com | Psychological warfare effort to be outsourced: "Federal law prohibits sending propaganda to Americans, and some experts worry that psychological warfare messages, especially disinformation efforts, might blow back to American audiences via the Internet and satellite news channels.
'In this age of the Internet and instant access, it's of great concern,' said Nancy Snow, a propaganda expert at California State University-Fullerton. 'If you plant false stories, how can you control where that story goes? You can't.'
Others question whether the money could be better spent.
So far, said defense analyst William Arkin, American propaganda efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have 'produced nothing positive and nothing negative.' He suggested the $100 million might be better spent on guns and bullets."
'In this age of the Internet and instant access, it's of great concern,' said Nancy Snow, a propaganda expert at California State University-Fullerton. 'If you plant false stories, how can you control where that story goes? You can't.'
Others question whether the money could be better spent.
So far, said defense analyst William Arkin, American propaganda efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have 'produced nothing positive and nothing negative.' He suggested the $100 million might be better spent on guns and bullets."
Tuesday
Ex-White House Official to Join Fuel Co. - Yahoo! News: "A former White House official and one-time oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join Exxon Mobil Corp., the oil company said Tuesday. "
Beacon Journal | 06/13/2005 | Officers say arms can't end Iraq war: "Lt. Col. Frederick P. Wellman, who works with the task force overseeing the training of Iraqi security troops, said the insurgency doesn't seem to be running out of new recruits, a dynamic fueled by tribal members seeking revenge for relatives killed in fighting.
``We can't kill them all,'' Wellman said. ``When I kill one I create three.''"
``We can't kill them all,'' Wellman said. ``When I kill one I create three.''"
Monday
U.S. Campaign Produces Few Convictions on Terrorism Charges: "Those statistics have been used repeatedly by Bush and other administration officials, including Gonzales and his predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, to characterize the government's efforts against terrorism.
But the numbers are misleading at best."
But the numbers are misleading at best."
Sunday
Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Postwar Iraq Plan: "A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a 'protracted and costly' postwar occupation of that country."
More babies, young kids going hungry in US - Yahoo! News: "In 2003, 11.2 percent of families in the United States experienced hunger, compared with 10.1 percent in 1999, according to most recent official figures"
Ministers were told of need for Gulf war �excuse� - Sunday Times - Times Online: "The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair's inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was "necessary to create the conditions" which would make it legal."
Friday
Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming - New York Times: "A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming"
Drug Safety Panel Is Criticized: "The new drug safety board established by the Food and Drug Administration to restore confidence in the nation's drug supply will actually set back efforts to improve the safety of the medications Americans take and will not make it any easier to take dangerous drugs off the market"
toledoblade.com: "Workers' comp bureau concealed $215M loss; Taft, Petro knew about fund's woes many months ago"
Tuesday
Consortiumnews.com: "To some extent, the news media's reluctance to solve the Mystery of Bush's Iraq War Lies may be explained by a well-founded fear of retaliation from Bush's powerful defense apparatus - from the Wall Street Journal's editorial page to the screamers on Fox News and right-wing talk radio.
But there may be another motive, a fear of the logical consequence that would follow a conclusion that Bush willfully deceived the American people into a disastrous war that has killed almost 1,700 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.
If that conclusion were to be accepted as true, it would force mainstream editors into a tough decision about whether they should join the supposedly fringe position advocating Bush's impeachment.
Certainly, the ignominy of impeachment would stand out as a logical remedy for a leader who so grievously violated the public trust and sent so many American soldiers to unnecessary deaths."
But there may be another motive, a fear of the logical consequence that would follow a conclusion that Bush willfully deceived the American people into a disastrous war that has killed almost 1,700 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.
If that conclusion were to be accepted as true, it would force mainstream editors into a tough decision about whether they should join the supposedly fringe position advocating Bush's impeachment.
Certainly, the ignominy of impeachment would stand out as a logical remedy for a leader who so grievously violated the public trust and sent so many American soldiers to unnecessary deaths."
Monday
Monday
Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded: "Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said."
Sunday
Scandal rocks Ohio GOP insider / He can't account for millions state put in his rare coin fund: "Noe's lawyers said as much as $13 million of the state's $50 million investment in his funds cannot be accounted for. Noe, meanwhile, has become the focus of at least six investigations or audits involving either his handling of the coin investments or his campaign fund raising. Federal investigators are also looking into his contributions to President Bush in 2004, when he was a 'pioneer' for Bush, raising more than $100,000.
And suddenly, Republicans who once stood staunchly at Noe's side, and at his fund-raising parties, can't seem to run away fast enough from him. "
And suddenly, Republicans who once stood staunchly at Noe's side, and at his fund-raising parties, can't seem to run away fast enough from him. "
Friday
Assault On the Media: "Today's conservative activists have become the new postmodernists. They shift attention away from the truth or falsity of specific facts and allegations -- and move the discussion to the motives of the journalists and media organizations putting them forward. Just a modest number of failures can be used to discredit an entire enterprise."
Thursday
New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion: "It's funny. The only time anyone thinks to blast the use of 'unnamed sources' is when the mistake occurs in that rarest of phenomena in mainstream journalism: the dissenting piece of investigative journalism.
The reality is that unnamed sources are used about 10,000 times a day by the more patriotic and upstanding members of our working press, only they're not used to wonder about the goings-on at places like Guantanamo Bay. Instead, they're used to kiss ass and make icons out of morons�to turn George Bush into Winston Churchill, Dick Gephardt into Eugene Debs, Tom Clancy into Tolstoy."
The reality is that unnamed sources are used about 10,000 times a day by the more patriotic and upstanding members of our working press, only they're not used to wonder about the goings-on at places like Guantanamo Bay. Instead, they're used to kiss ass and make icons out of morons�to turn George Bush into Winston Churchill, Dick Gephardt into Eugene Debs, Tom Clancy into Tolstoy."
Wednesday
Tuesday
World Bank, IMF Requirements Stifling Poor Countries' Health Spending - Report - Yahoo! News: "the requirements of the IMF appear to mean that countries must include the value of all new donor funding received for initiatives such as scaling-up delivery of antiretroviral treatment''... In other words, ''if a sector receives any new [privately donated] funds that were not initially budgeted for, it forfeits a similar amount from the government coffers.'"
Sunday
News: "Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food."
Prewar Findings Worried Analysts: "it appears that even before the war many senior intelligence officials in the government had doubts about the case being trumpeted in public by the president and his senior advisers."
Saturday
Guardian | Tarnished image abroad fails to register with Americans at home: "the latest in a string of episodes which started soon after President George Bush launched his so-called war on terror."
Friday
New indictment revises conspiracy charge in phone jamming case At the time, Tobin was a high ranking official of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job was to elect Republicans to the Senate. The 2002 race between Republican John E. Sununu and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, won by Sununu, was considered one of the closest in the country.
The committee was run by Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, now Senate majority leader.
In 2004, Tobin was regional chairman of Bush´s re-election campaign.
The committee was run by Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, now Senate majority leader.
In 2004, Tobin was regional chairman of Bush´s re-election campaign.
Thursday
Daily Times - Site Edition: "If Newsweek has apologised for the Quran desecration story which had no sound basis, the Bush administration also owes an apology to the American people for the Iraq war "
Wednesday
Mr Galloway goes to Washington - Comment - Times Online: "For the silent majority (the ones who did not vote for Bush), Mr Galloway's visit provided a brief respite from the depressing day-to-day life in this military-industrial complex that cannot exist without being at war with the rest of the world."
Tuesday
Editorial: Newsweek/It doesn't deserve the diatribes: "For Newsweek and other media that come in for this treatment, we have one word: Resist."
Galloway vs. The US Senate: Transcript of Statement I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.
Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.
Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.
Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood: Pinning the Blame on Newsweek: "why the focus on the Newsweek story? It's part of the tried-and-true strategy of demonize, disguise, and divert. Demonize the news media to disguise the real causes of the resistance to occupation and divert attention from failed U.S. policies."
The resignation of Scott McClellan - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com: "Whenever I hear Scott McClellan talking about 'media credibility,' I strain to remember who it was who admitted Jeff Gannon to the White House press room and called on him all those times. "
Report Says Treasury Missed Iraq Oil Abuses: "The U.S. Treasury Department failed to adequately monitor U.S. companies that violated U.N. sanctions against Iraq"
Monday
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: "It's a very big concern that parents are being coerced to drug their children in a billion-dollar-a-year industry"
Sunday
Telegraph | News | Trigger-happy US troops 'will keep us in Iraq for years': "Trigger-happy US troops 'will keep us in Iraq for years'"
Monday
Winston-Salem Journal | State Department won't reveal papers: "The State Department is refusing to make public internal documents requested by Senate Democrats trying to gain more information about repeated clashes between John R. Bolton and U.S. intelligence agencies"
MercuryNews.com | 04/28/2005 | Indicted Chinese firm to equip Iraqi army: "The U.S. Army has approved the purchase of a more than $29 million worth of weapons for the new Iraqi army from a Chinese company that is under federal indictment in San Francisco in connection with the smuggling of 2,000 AK-47 automatic rifles through the Port of Oakland in 1996."
Saturday
News: "The seemingly pleasant, down-to-earth sensibility of the American Midwest has been upended by a new radicalism"
Thursday
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases ENVIRONMENTAL PROMOTION TIED TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS — Florida DEP Dropped Enforcement Actions After Handpicked Supervisor Promoted
Tuesday
CJR May/June 2005: Stations of the Cross: "Thanks to Christian radio's rapid growth, religious stations now outnumber every other format except country music and news-talk."
Fund-Raising: Take It to the (West) Bank - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com: "Money meant for the inner city went to fight the intifada."
Monday
The Seattle Times: Evangelical Christians dominate Air Force Academy, report says: "There is a clear preference for Christianity at the academy, so that everyone else feels like a second-class citizen."
Sunday
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Business: "John Rutledge, a Bush administration economist, speculates Americans are starting to tire of their love affair with gas-guzzling vehicles.
'Americans are beginning to understand that one Hummer equals one American soldier in Iraq,' Rutledge told an investment forum in Ormond Beach last month."
'Americans are beginning to understand that one Hummer equals one American soldier in Iraq,' Rutledge told an investment forum in Ormond Beach last month."
Wednesday
Sunday
Wednesday
Yahoo! News - Air Force Cadets See Religious Harassment: "There were people walking up to someone and basically they would get in a conversation and it would end with, `If you don't believe what I believe you are going to hell"
Saturday
Yahoo! News - Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report: "U.S. intelligence officials said Rice's office decided to eliminate 'Patterns of Global Terrorism' when the counterterrorism center declined to use alternative methodology that would have reported fewer significant attacks.
The officials said they interpreted Rice's action as an attempt to avoid releasing statistics that would contradict the administration's claims that it's winning the war against terrorism."
The officials said they interpreted Rice's action as an attempt to avoid releasing statistics that would contradict the administration's claims that it's winning the war against terrorism."
Tuesday
Mike Whitney: Pope TV and the New World Media: "The new game-plan is to sweep Iraq from the collective consciousness and slow the steady erosion of public support for the war."
Wednesday
Tuesday
AlterNet: MediaCulture: Right-wing Radio Religious broadcasters are squeezing community radio right off the FM dial.
The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "the future seems all too likely to bring more intimidation in the name of God and more political intervention that undermines the rule of law"
Jeremy Scahill: Sgrena Sets the Record Straight: "With Terri Schiavo and Michael Jackson to cover, it is pretty difficult for most media outlets to find the time to report on any of the more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of the invasion 2 years ago."
Sunday
Congress Steps In on Schiavo Case (washingtonpost.com): "In a memo distributed only to Republican senators, the Schiavo case was characterized as 'a great political issue' that could pay dividends with Christian conservatives, whose support is essential in midterm elections such as those coming up in 2006."
AP Wire | 03/19/2005 | Ohio unemployment rate hits highest level since 1993: "The state's unemployment rate is at its highest level since December 1993, in part because people who don't have jobs believe the economy has improved enough for them to try to find work."
Friday
Thursday
Yahoo! News - New on the Wire: AP to Offer Two Leads for Some Stories New! Free! Two scoops of spin for print-edition readers! (scroll down for example)
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