November 3, 2008
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Message to the Media on Obama and McCain – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
COHA has been compiling and sorting out a good deal of information and analyses on the policies and personalities likely to be embraced in the eventuality of either a McCain or Obama victory in tomorrow’s presidential contest. Among the themes being assessed, and assuming an Obama victory, there follows a cluster of issues that COHA’s Continue reading
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Media Lens: CHILDREN IN THE CROSSHAIRS
3 November, 2008 Media Silent On Evidence Of Israeli Targeting Of Youngsters <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Gaza Strip. At around Continue reading
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Blair says Muslim “extremists” are all “the same forces”
Blair: No, no, I don’t say that. But I do say, whether you look at Hezbollah in Lebanon, or Hamas in Palestine, or the militia and the al-Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is actually the same forces that you’re fighting. Continue reading
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Ramzy Baroud – A Third Palestinian Intifada in the Making
A ‘third Intifada’ would imply that the second has already ended. But has it? Or did it simply lose momentum, sense of focus and direction, or were its energies squandered – as a popular uprising – on factional disputes and internal division? Continue reading
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Studs Terkel: The Passing of An Icon
Studs Terkel was for the little guy. Our voice of America. Against war and “in-bed-with” journalists. To reign in the kind of abuses now rampant. Hold the powerful accountable. Support the public interest. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 