Kucinich Calls for Docs on Iraq War 'Sell Job'
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U.S. State Dept To Splurge on Persian Media
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"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress yesterday to provide $75 million in emergency funding to step up pressure on the Iranian government." If granted, the request would increase to $85 million the 2006 budget "to promote political change inside Iran," up from
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In Colombia, Reporters Trust, Don't Verify, Official Sources
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"The media's over-reliance on official sources, despite ... a long history of lying and manipulation by those sources," often makes the media "an instrument of U.S. foreign policy," writes Garry Leech. On February 12, Reuters and Spain's EFE reported "that leftist rebels belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had massacred six members of a family, including an 80-year-old woman. The entire story ...
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Lobbying: A Real Growth Industry
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At Lincoln Group, the Propaganda Never Ends
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The Lincoln Group, which planted Pentagon-written stories in Iraqi newspapers, won U.S.
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PR Czar Hughes Loses the Reporters
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"In September, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes ... took 16 reporters on her first trip to the Mideast," Al Kamen writes. "We all know how well that trip turned out.
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The Long, Protracted, Not-Going-To-Be-Over-Soon, War
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Reporter Tim Harper notes the Bush administration's shift from "War on Terror" to "The Long War." Communications professor Christopher Simpson explains, "The War on Terror brand had gone sour." Moreover, "if it is a Long War," then expanded executive powers "will be needed not just this year, but next year and for decades." Harper writes
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U.S. Government Media Contracts Revealed
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Iraq PR: Same as it Ever Was
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The PR firm Burson-Marsteller's lobbying unit, BKSH & Associates, "has added the Republic of Iraq to its client roster," reports O'Dwyer's.
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The Republican-Lobbyist-Military-Industrial Complex
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"While Abramoff, DeLay and Randy Cunningham dominate the headlines," the Alexander Strategy Group (ASG) "deserves to be heavily scrutinized for its role in each of those scandals and others not yet on the mainstream radar," reports Jeremy Scahill.
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