Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2008. These guys say "I can't recall" enough to make you think that they have some sort of disease.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 30, 2008. Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. June 11, 2008. Political chasm between Washington and Latin America continues to deepen, as Chavez rejects FARC's armed campaign.
Daniel Denvir, NACLA. May 31, 2008. The pix suggest an intelligence agency -- either Colombia's or that of an "allied" government -- operating in Ecuador.
Josh Silver, Huffington Post. May 26, 2008. You probably didn't hear about the House voting to ban Pentagon propaganda -- since the networks have failed to cover the story.
Machetera, Machetera. May 24, 2008. The U.S. government p.r. creation, the “Ladies in White,” (Damas de Blanco) takes money from right-wing terrorists.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. May 23, 2008. The military insists that Iranian arms are fueling the Iraqi insurgency, but continue to provide little evidence to back up the claim.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 22, 2008. In the new film Iron Man, the people cast as terrorists take the fall for what the U.S. has done in the real world.
Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. May 5, 2008. The Pentagon pundit scandal was not only a corrupt marriage of propaganda and corporate lobbying -- it was completely illegal.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. April 29, 2008. The Pentagon says it's halting its propaganda program, but the news media is still quite about its role in leading us to war.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 26, 2008. With a remarkable interview with Ecuador's Raphael Correa. You won't read anything like it in your local paper.
John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton, PR Watch. April 25, 2008. The Bush Administration has spent millions on deceptive PR to sell the war, as recently documented in the New York Times. Where's the fallout?
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. April 10, 2008. The Petraeus hearings trapped Democrats into talking about whether the 'surge' is working, not that the U.S. has no right to be there.
Tom Engelhardt, TheNation.com. April 8, 2008. Gen. David Petraeus ought to level with the American public about the dire state of affairs in Iraq in his testimony to Congress this week.
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. April 2, 2008. The strange nature of McCain's appeal is directly tied to the distractions of the unwinnable Iraq occupation and the "War on Drugs."