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5 Years Later: Pundits Who Were Wrong on Iraq Are Silent

Pressing Issues by Greg Mitchell Greg Mitchell's new book is "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and... more

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Iraq Fax-in -- It's like a sit-in, only you can do it from home

Submitted by Bob Fertik on March 15, 2008 - 2:13pm. Iraqi Victims Casey Sheehan Fallen Heroes March 19 marks the... more

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Accountability for the Iraq war

by David Krieger We have been engaged in an illegal war in Iraq for five years - and there is no accountability. It is beyond... more

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Rutherford County: Free speech and Web event includes Gore

Glad to hear Al Gore's joining the conversation; "Accuracy, Privacy and the World Wide Web: The First Amendment and the... more

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Iraq and Afghanistan Soldiers Testify at "Winter Soldier 2008"; Day One

Iraq Veteran’s Against the war (IVAW) Today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 6 veterans spoke to a room... more

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"War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death"

A Winning Argument: Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp's "War Made Easy"

by Michael Joshua Rowin (March 9, 2008)
[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Though the early to mid-aughts documentary boom has recently died down, it's still difficult to believe there hasn't been a serious nonfiction indictment of the collusion between the government and the media in selling the invasion of Iraq to the American public. This accounts for a somewhat shameful omission in the ever-growing Iraq War doc catalogue--the sheer amount of lies, distortions, and fear-mongering titillations on display in a typical CNN or Fox News broadcast circa 2002 (and today) would offer enough evidence on the sorry state of our national media for a book-length study, let alone a feature film. Columnist, critic, and antiwar notable Norman Solomon has now, remarkably, provided both: his 2005 volume "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" has been adapted into an explosive, compact 73-minute documentary by filmmakers Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp. If a few years ago Solomon was a lonely voice in the wilderness, with this film he has a major stage from which to educate a potentially greater audience.

Because educate is what this film has been unabashedly designed to do--there's a reason it was produced by the Institute for Public Accuracy (of which Solomon is founder and executive director) and Media Education Foundation. It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss "War Made Easy" as the cinematic equivalent of a lecture, no matter how tempting it might be to do so in an age where talking head-guided social studies lessons have emerged as the most popular form of documentary expression. Since Solomon is the only interviewee on screen (though it helps in such a case for a marquee name like Sean Penn to provide voice over services) "War Made Easy" should by all reasoning be even more dry and didactic, but it actually works as an effective and often startling montage of found footage (thank you, Fair Use) that plays like a highlight reel of the mainstream media's incessant but subtle ideological agenda.

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9 months ago

International experts foresee collapse of U.S. economy

When will The American Press start covering this? Will it be too late to change course? Is it already too late to change course?... more

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9 months ago

Pelosi: Response to Administration Decision Not to Enforce Contempt Citations of Miers and Bolten

From Nancy Pelosi's web site: Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in... more

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9 months ago

Pelosi wants Bush aides investigated

It's about time. === WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Justice Department on Thursday to open a grand jury... more

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9 months ago

Canada - U.S. pact allows cross-border military activity

Did Congress approve this? Our National Guard is in Iraq and George W. sets up policy for another army to come in and enforce... more

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9 months ago

WND settles $165 million libel case. Out of court agreement ends 7 year old suit

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A 7-year-old, $165 million defamation case against WND springing from a series of stories about then-presidential candidate Al Gore has been settled.

The terms of the out-of-court agreement with auto dealer Clark Jones are confidential. The settlement averts the need for a trial in Tennessee that was scheduled for next month.

I wish it hadn't taken 7 years, I can't remember which series of stories they are referring to. Does anyone remember? So many things have happened during those 7 years, There’s a question -- Why did WorldNetDaily.com report false information? Was it to benefit George W. Bush? If WorldNetDaily.com influenced the outcome of the 2000 election, they owe us all money! We need our Constitution back! We have the shame of being a country that questions what 'is' torture. Bill Clinton's question about 'is' was about sex. This administrations 'is' question is about torture. Our economy is in shambles. People are loosing their homes. Credit card companies are charging record interest rates, more than the bookies in the early 70's; they only charged 25%. Oil companies are making record profits every quarter. Every quarter is better than the last. Halliburton can not account for billions of dollars, with no accountability. $6.3 billion buyout by Carlyle complete -- chicagotribune.com -- December 22, 2007 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat_3brief_1222dec22,0,6850256.storyRecently seniors received notice stating: 'Important New Medicare Changes...' One paragraph stood out to me. **'Also, the DRG program payment system is still in effect and sets per ailment ceilings on Medicare payments to a hospital. Because of these ceilings, many hospitals are now transferring patients to lower cost nursing homes or extended care facilities **
Would the rich have gotten richer and the poor gotten poorer if news organizations like WorldNetDaily been held accountable at the time? Would other news organizations been more afraid of litigation and accountability than George W. and the neocons?
America needs accountability again. If people and corporations would be held accountable, they would fear the cost and shame for lying. The spin that has gone on for the past 7 years, is lies that distort fact, yet are given equal coverage. Mainstream media has reported spin and fact as equal; it's an 'Assault on Reason'.
Congress spent today investigating steroids of baseball players? If the libel settlement is because WND used lies against Clark Jones to hurt the campaign of Al Gore, WND admitted to tampering with an election. Knowingly printing lies during a campaign 'IS' TAMPERING WITH OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION! That is what I want Congress to investigate, NOT STEROIDS!
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10 months ago

Conyers Says He's on Edge of Starting Impeachment

It's about time! Too many questions with too few answers. America needs hearings, with testimony under oath. If there are... more

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10 months ago

HERO OR ZERO: THE LEGACY OF JOHN CONYERS?

I had thought John Conyers would be my hero, unfortunately after the Democrats got the lead in Congress and the Senate and he was... more

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10 months ago

Truth Emergency in the U.S.

Peter Phillips and David Kubiak are on the right track. The lies and spin have gotten America on the wrong track! We are heading for the end of the tunnel! Will we see the light, or an oncoming train?

Tens of thousands of Americans engaged in various social justice issues constantly witness how corporate media marginalize, denigrate, or simply ignore their concerns. Activist groups working on issues such as 9/11 truth, election fraud, impeachment, war propaganda, civil liberties/torture, and many corporate-caused environmental crises have been systematically excluded from mainstream news and the national conversation leading to a genuine truth emergency in the country as a whole.

Now, however, a growing number of activists are finally saying "enough!" and joining forces to address this truth emergency by developing new journalistic systems and practices of their own. They are working to reveal the common corporate denominators behind the diverse crises we face and to develop networks of trustworthy news sources that tell the people what is really going on. These activists know we need a journalism that moves beyond forensic inquiries into particular crimes and atrocities, and exposes wider patterns of corruption, propaganda, and illicit political control to rouse the nation to reject a malignant corporate status quo.

This Truth Emergency Movement is holding its first national strategy summit in Santa Cruz, California on January 25-27. Organizers are gathering key media constituencies to devise coherent decentralized models for distribution of suppressed news, synergistic truth-telling, and collaborative strategies to disclose, legitimize, and popularize deeper historical narratives on power and inequality in the U.S. This truth movement is seeking to discover in this moment of Constitutional crisis, ecological peril, and widening war, ways in which top investigative journalists, whistleblowers, and independent media activists can transform the way Americans perceive and defend their world.

Peter Phillips and David Kubiak are on the right track. The lies and spin have gotten America on the wrong track! We are heading... more