Iraq War Effects Missing from Coverage of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Troubles

July 12th, 2008 by Guest Author | 1 Comment

Iraq War Effects Missing from Coverage of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Troubles

This New York Times article ( “U.S. Weighs Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants” - 7/10/08) is typical of how the corporate media omit underlying causes in reporting on current economic difficulties.


The Cost of War in Iraq

June 16th, 2008 by Diva Jood | 6 Comments

The Cost of War in Iraq

I thought I would take a look at the local cost of the War in Iraq. The National Priorities Project has a page where you can get the costs as it pertains to your locality. Taxpayers in California’s Congressional District 36 (Harman) will pay $1.3 billion for total Iraq war spending approved to date.


Bushliburton, Masters of Compartmentalization

June 5th, 2008 by Big Fella | 1 Comment

Bushliburton, Masters of Compartmentalization

Among the eloquent Rocky Mountain News photographs included here is a shocking image — by Todd Heisler, now of The New York Times — of commercial airline passengers looking out plane windows at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada, trying to see what is happening beneath them.


No More!

May 12th, 2008 by Dusty | No Comments

No More!

Pearl Jam -No More…

This is a live version of “No More” from the new documentary Body of War. Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam perform. The movie opens nationwide this month.
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8 CHILDREN A DAY

May 10th, 2008 by Fran | No Comments

8 CHILDREN A DAY

Choosey Mutha’s choose….PEACE
Eight children a day are killed by guns in our country — for a total of almost 3,000 a year — and another 13,000 a year are wounded. Nearly 1.7 million children under the age of 18 live in homes with firearms that are both loaded and unlocked.
The Million Mom March will be [...]


Another book from a former Bush employee..

May 2nd, 2008 by Dusty | 3 Comments

Another book from a former Bush employee..

Dougie Feith wrote one. George Tenet wrote his and Rummy did a big ole interview about his time in the Bush Administration with a mens magazine. Now, Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq in 2003-2004 has written a book about his part in history. Sanchez’s book, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story, [...]


Iraq Moratorium Day #8; April 18

April 17th, 2008 by Big Fella | 1 Comment

Iraq Moratorium Day #8; April 18

Following is from iraqmoratorium.org:
The Iraq Moratorium, a nationwide grassroots movement uniting individuals and groups against the Iraq war, will be observed on Friday, April 18.
Since September, the Iraq Moratorium has asked people and groups opposed to the war and occupation to take some action on the third Friday of every month to end the war.
Individual [...]


It’s Not an Insurgency

April 16th, 2008 by ReasonOne | 2 Comments

It’s Not an Insurgency

By ReasonOne, aka Kyle
Why is it the Iraq War gets worse whenever George W.Bush and FOX news brag about how well the surge is working? Why does the Administration and our boot licking media insist on calling this blood bath an insurgency?
As you might have already heard this was another bad day in [...]


Cospeak is nothing less than Doublespeak

April 14th, 2008 by PraetorOne | 4 Comments

Cospeak is nothing less than Doublespeak

COSPEAK IS NOTHING LESS THAN DOUBLESPEAK
The Convoluted Language of Crocker and Petreus
By PraetorOne and ReasonOne
I don’t know about you, but I am constantly amazed by our corporate, right wing media as they continue to misrepresent the relationship between Army General David Petreus and George W. Bush. It seems as if you can’t turn on [...]


IT JUST ISN’T FAIR

April 9th, 2008 by ReasonOne | 4 Comments

IT JUST ISN’T FAIR

It just isn’t fair.
After watching the hearings with Army General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker this week, I can well imagine the glee that must be coursing through the veins of every recruiter in the United States. After listening to Petraeus and Crocker one gets the idea that Iraq isn’t a war zone. [...]


Doug and his Feith-based bullshit.

April 7th, 2008 by Dusty | 5 Comments

Doug and his Feith-based bullshit.

Douglas Feith is a tool, among other things. Last night on Sixty Minutes he attempted to spin a yarn so big, I thought the interviewer, Steve Kroft, was going to piss down both legs as he stared at Feith in amazement.Feith attempted to spin the War in Iraq as a preemptive strike. No, I am [...]


WHY IRAQ DISAPPEARED FROM THE CORPORATE MEDIA

March 25th, 2008 by PraetorOne | 4 Comments

WHY IRAQ DISAPPEARED FROM THE CORPORATE MEDIA

WHY IRAQ DISAPPEARED FROM THE CORPORATE MEDIA
By PraetorOne

With 4000 Americans dead, sectarian violence on the rise in Iraq, and with the fragile truce with al-Sadr coming unraveled at the seams, our wonderful American media has shifted the focus away from the failing Surge in Iraq to domestic matters: The nonstop and all too irrelevant [...]


The Failing Escalation

March 24th, 2008 by PraetorOne | 3 Comments

The Failing Escalation

Orwellian half truths and distortions from the Regime in Washington
By PraetorOne and  ReasonOne
You really have to give the Bush Administration credit–when it decides to engage in Orwellian Doublespeak it doesn’t go half way. On March 19th, the fifth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq we kept hearing about all the wonderful things that [...]


American soldiers killed in Iraq hits the 4000 mark

March 23rd, 2008 by Dusty | 3 Comments

American soldiers killed in Iraq hits the 4000 mark

Perhaps it shouldn’t bother me as much as it does, but I cried when I saw it in my news alert this evening:
U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000
Grim milestone reached when IED kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Baghdad
Grim doesn’t even begin to cover it folks. We should never of been there. Our soldiers should [...]


Body of War

March 22nd, 2008 by Dusty | 3 Comments

Body of War

Friday night’s Bill Moyers Journal was an emotional roller coaster for me. The entire show was devoted to a documentary made by Phil Donohue and Ellen Spiro called Body of War. The subject of the documentary is Tomas Young, a soldier that was shot and paralyzed from the nipples down less than a week after [...]



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