Corporate Indictments: Crimes & Excesses
Bill Van Auken
By Bill Van Auken15 May 2008World Socialist Web SiteIn a deal worked out between Washington and its principal ally in Latin America—Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe—14 leaders of the country’s right-wing paramilitary militias were suddenly extradited to the US on Tuesday to face drug trafficking charges.
By Joe Strupp Editor & PublisherApril 30, 2008NEW YORK The massive New York Times probe 10 days ago about retired military officers, prepped by the Pentagon, who served as influential television commentators since the runup to the Iraq war -- and also have conflicting ties to defense contractors -- has sparked a serious backlash among many journalists, such as Howard Kurtz, and others since it ran a week and a half ago.
By Greg MitchellEditor & PublisherMay 10, 2008NEW YORK As noted in previous E&P articles, the shocking New York Times article last month by David Barstow exposing the Pentagon's use of retired military officers to carry their talking points on the Iraq war in the media has received relatively little follow-up--or response--from the news outlets involved, principally TV and cable networks.
Comments May 7, 2008I find the absence of any local coverage concerning the New York Times report that detailed the orchestrated propaganda by the Bush administration in managing information about the war in Iraq appalling.
By Daniel JohnsonSalem-News.comhttp://www.salem-news.com/articles/november062009/usa_80s_dj.phpNov-06-2009I or.
Maybe it will include this theme park exhibit, a statue of Donald Rumsfeld ... 05/ 05/ 2008 DAMASCUS, May 5 .
By Roberto J. González González's ZSpace page In July 2005 the U.S. Army initiated a $20 million counterin.
We've heard much debate over policy issues, but actual coverage of the war has been scarce, limited largely to daily reports of suicide bombings and periodic American casualty counts: Dec.
Alex Constantine
I didn't start it. Honest. This aside turned up at the YAF website. I just happened along, minding my own b.
By ANDREW MIGA – 1 day agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Forty-one House members are calling on the Defense Department inspector general to investigate a public relations effort that relied on retired military officers to defend the administration's Iraq war policies.