Picking Losers
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The American Enterprise Institute, one of the premier U.S. think tanks, has presented former Australian Prime Minister John Howard with the Irving Kristol Award for 2008.
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GE Plans European Greenwashing Blitz
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General Electric's power industry division, GE Energy, is set to launch a greenwashing blitz in five European countries, including the United Kingdom.
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Will the Candidate Without Nuclear Industry Ties Please Stand Up?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"As Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was blasting Sen.
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Unspinning the U.S. Elections
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Center for Media and Democracy is contributing biweekly radio reports on politics and spin to "Election Unspun," a daily news show put together by Pacifica Radio and Free Speech Radio News.
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Canada's Chalk River Nuclear Reactor Up and Running Again, but Safely?
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Linda KeenThe fifty-year old nuclear reactor at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada, is running again after the Canadian Parliament overruled the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
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Britain's Nuclear Option Draws Heat
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The British government's recent decision to encourage new nuclear power plants has attracted much scrutiny.
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Second UK Energy Consultation Headed for Meltdown
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"We are profoundly concerned that the government's approach was designed to provide particular and limiting answers," announced a spokesperson for the British nuclear consultation group. The independent group of energy economists and nuclear advisers condemned the British government's second attempt at developing a national energy policy, saying that "the government's plans to force through a new generation of nuclear power stations" is "undemocratic and possibly illegal," reported John Vidal.
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New Participatory Project: Getting Behind GE's Green Gloss
Submitted by Bob Burton on
In May 2005 General Electric, which is now ranked as the world's tenth largest company, launched its "Ecomagination" PR campaign.
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Californians Not So Hot on Nuclear Power
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"After public opinion polls found lukewarm support for new nuclear power plants in the state," California State Assemblyman Chuck De
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The U.S. Propaganda Blitz in Post-War Japan
Submitted by Bob Burton on
A report written in 1959 by Mark May, a Yale University professor and expert on psychological warfare, detailed the extensive operations by the United States Information Service (USIS) in Japan after the end of World War II. The report was recently uncovered in the National Archives in Washington by Kenneth Osgood, an assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. The report reveals that 23 of 50 USIS-sponsored programs were not publicly identified as U.S. funded projects.
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