Brother, Can You Spare $3 Million for "Strategic Communication"?
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Petraeus as Puppet
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In recent months, President Bush has deflected questions about progress in Iraq with statements like, "I'm going to wait f
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SourceWatch Tracks the Pro-War Lobby and Vets for Freedom
SourceWatch citizen journalist Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a dogged and prolific investigator of the pro-war lobby. AI began digging into the pro-war front group Vets for Freedom in June 2006. AI's research exposing the neoconservative agenda and Republican operatives behind VFF has been used by scores of journalists. Just do a Google search for "Vets for Freedom" and you'll find AI's work in our SourceWatch article right at the top of your returns, next to the VFF's own website.
Pro-war funding appears plentiful for VFF as it gears up to lobby Congress in September. Here's some of the latest from AI and the VFF article on SourceWatch:
Cheney Says the Q Word
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Rendition Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary Grows
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A lawsuit against airservices company Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., has been re-filed to include two more victims of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's extraordinary rendition program. In December 2002, Bisher al-Rawi was kidnapped from Gambia and flown to a secret U.S.
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America Supports You With Apocalyptic Rhetoric?
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In a July 2005 PR Watch post, Laura Miller asked whether the U.S. Defense Department's "America Supports You" campaign was an attempt "to boost public support for war and distract ...
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Congresspedia's "Congress in the News" updates, July 11-July 18, 2007
- In anticipation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's upcoming appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sent Gonzales a letter detailing questions the chairman planned to ask, in order to help avoid so many "I don't recall" responses. (TPM Muckraker story)
Alaskan Congressional Delegation Facing Mounting Legal Trouble; Two Members Now Under Criminal Investigation
While Congress has officially begun it's August recess, members of the Alaskan congressional delegation may be finding it difficult to relax.
Clinton Campaign Dogged by PR Misdeeds
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The PR firm Burson-Marsteller's anti-union consulting continues to haunt Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. That's because Mark Penn, a top campaign aide, also heads Burson-Marsteller (B-M).
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The Week In Congress (July 30-August 3, 2007)
Both chambers of Congress scrambled to pass weighty and complicated pieces of legislation before they adjourned for the August recess, with the House finally wrapping things up on Sunday. The biggest measures were on domestic wiretapping, ethics, childrens' health insurance and energy. The headlines below link to the respective full Congresspedia articles. Know something about the bills? Help out by editing the articles:
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