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."
Report: U.S. WEAPONS AT WAR 2005

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.'"
Tillman's Parents Are Critical Of Army: "It makes you feel like you're losing your mind in a way"
CounterPunch: "America's Best Political Newsletter" Inventing a Pretext for War

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.

Thursday

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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.
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. "