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Troops, Hoops and Antichoice Brutes

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

USA Basketball is in a slump, suffering more losses in 2004 "than the team had in its entire Olympic history." To inspire the players, managing director Jerry Colangelo and coach Mike Krzyzewski turned to U.S. "soldiers maimed and crippled by the war in Iraq," arranging a televised meeting between the veterans and the athletes. Using soldiers wounded in "a deeply unpopular war from which, according to a recent Zogby poll, 72 percent of troops want to escape ...

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Main Source: 
The Nation (U.S.), August 28, 2006
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq
Women

Spinning an Iraq Oil Kickbacks Confession

Submitted by Bob Burton on

Faced with a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the payment of approximately $A300 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government, in breach of the United Nations' Iraq Oil-for-Food Program, the Australian wheat trader AWB Limited hired

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Main Source: 
News.com.au (Australia), August 10, 2006
Topics: 
Crisis Management
Iraq
Ethics
International
Public Relations
Secrecy

Republican Criticizes Bush Over Secret WMD Propaganda

Submitted by John Stauber on

The New York Times reports that "The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee lashed out at the White House on Thursday, criticizing attempts by the Bush administration to keep secret parts of a report on the role Iraqi exiles played in building the case for war against Iraq. The chairman, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas ...

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Main Source: 
New York Times, August 4, 2006
Topics: 
Iraq
Politics
Propaganda

Russo Marsh & Rogers Flacks for Iraq

Submitted by John Stauber on

Aaron Glantz, author of How America Lost Iraq, reports on Free Speech Radio and in Inter Press Service that "Kurdish officials toured the United States last week to launch a massive advertising and public relations campaign [under the slogan Kurdistan - The Other Iraq ] thanking the United States ... .

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Main Source: 
Inter Press Service, July 31, 2006
Topics: 
Iraq
Public Relations

The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq

Exactly three years ago our book Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq was published. Our publisher pitched it this way: "Rampton and Stauber take no prisoners as they reveal - headline by headline, news show by news show, press conference by press conference - the deliberate, aggressive, and highly successful public relations campaign that sold the Iraqi war to the American public.

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