http://www.consortiumnews.com…
By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
October 19, 2008
Trailing in the polls with the election barely two weeks away, John McCain has dug deep into the Lee Atwater/Karl Rove playbook, now portraying Barack Obama as a combination of class-warfare socialist, terrorist fellow-traveler and crooked pol.
McCain also has sought to tie Obama to ACORN, a [...]
http://www.alternet.org…
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Posted on October 17, 2008, Printed on October 19, 2008
Less than a week after the Washington Post reported that the Department of Defense will pay private contractors $300 million over the next three years to “produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort [...]
http://www.salon.com…
The Army says no, but a graphic video and eyewitness testimony indicate that a U.S. tank killed two American soldiers. The mother of one soldier demands answers.
By Mark Benjamin
Editor’s note: Mark Benjamin’s friendly fire investigation contains 1) the main article, 2) video documentation and 3) the Army’s own report on the killing of Nelson [...]
http://thinkprogress.org…
Think Progress by Amanda
In recent weeks, newspapers reaching 28 million households nationwide (although primarily in swing states) have been carrying an advertising supplement containing the DVD “Obsession.” The film features “graphic images of terrorism, video of anti-American speeches from Mideast television and comparisons with Nazi Germany.” According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the people [...]
http://www.atlargely.com…
At-Largely by Cernig
The US is back in the business of paying for “good news” propaganda stories about Iraq, according to the Washington Post.
The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media [...]
http://www.nysun.com…*propaganda source, read with caution*
h/t: sott.net
Comment: Replace Al Qeada (TM) with CIA/ISI and the article reads closer to the truth
The New York Sun
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:41 EDT
Washington - In the aftermath of two major terrorist attacks on Western targets, America’s counterterrorism community is warning that Al Qaeda may launch more overseas operations to influence [...]
http://rawstory.com…
John Byrne
Published: Tuesday September 23, 2008
A secret US intelligence report which says the political and military situation in Afghanistan is “grim” will be withheld from the public until after the election, a new report says.
Intelligence officials are finishing up the National Intelligence Estimate on Aghanistan, according to ABC’s Brian Ross, “but there are ‘no plans [...]
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker…
The Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored.
http://rawstory.com/…
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday September 16, 2008
For nearly eight years, Vice President Dick Cheney has combined an unprecedented position of power with a deep sense of living in a hostile and threatening world. He has been prepared to use his power in unscrupulous ways to ward off those perceived threats, even lying to [...]
Another year, another opportunity for the GOP to use 9/11 to pump fear into our populace while “honoring our dead.” read more | digg story
He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death…Thomas Paine
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