Historians Win Over Spy Agencies (For Now)
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Boldly Militarizing Where No One Has Gone Before
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"Lobbyists from the fledgling commercial space industry are besieging Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade the government to hand out contracts to help put the U.S. military into orbit," reports John Lasker. The main "talking point" for the 50 to 75 lobbyists is "how the private sector can help the U.S.
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DP World Seeks Many PR Ports in Political Storm
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TIA's Different Names, Same Spy Games
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The Devil Is in the Lack of Details: The Defense Department's Media Contracts
Although they've done their best to keep their spinning from public scrutiny, several major incidents have exposed the Bush administration's manipulation of news media: The "sell job" for the invasion of Iraq.
U.S. Spy Agencies Disappear History
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"In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years." Since 1999, more than 50,000 once-declassified pages have been reclassified as secret. Intelligence historian Matthew Aid said some of the decades-old documents are "mundane, and some of it is outright ridiculous." The New York Times reports, "While some of the choices made by the security reviewers ... are baffling, others seem ...
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Rumsfeld: Gee, Propaganda Is Wrong
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In "his most specific comments thus far about the information operations program," U.S.
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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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