U.S. Foreign Policy As Poisoned Pill
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In a discussion with former U.S. propaganda Czar Charlotte Beers on whether U.S.
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Former Public Affairs Officer Speaks Out Against Bush
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Former navy public affairs office Lt. John Oliveira told Democracy Now! that he didn't realize how stressful his military oath would be for him when aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt last year. "I had to get on television every day to talk to the American people and the international public and continue to sell them on the administration's policies, which I did not believe in," Oliveira said. He oversaw embedded journalists on the aircraft carrier, which at the time was in the eastern Mediterranean. "I'm [now] doing what I can to support our troops.
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Time for CNN, None for Congress
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Condoleezza Rice is the White House official whose testimony is desired the most by the congressional panel probing the Bush administration's handling of Al Qaeda before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, but the Bush administration refuses to have her testify publicly. She hasn't exactly been invisible, though.
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Covert Recruiting
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Army "situ-mercials" will air during the re-broadcast of a popular World War II HBO miniseries. "In one segment of the [Army] program, a modern soldier says, 'Once you put on this uniform, you feel like you are doing something that a lot of people can't do.' The program then shifts to a 'Band of Brothers' scene where one soldier asks another why he wanted to join the paratroopers.
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When FOX Attacks...
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Shortly before former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke's testimony to the September 11th commission, "the White House violated its long-standing rules by authorizing Fox News to air remarks favorable to Bush that Clarke had made anonymously at an administration briefing in 2002.
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Don't Ask (Especially Not Now!), Don't Tell, Don't Employ
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"When they need people, they keep them. When they don't, they implement their policy of discrimination," said the director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The group found that "the number of gays dismissed from the military under the Pentagon's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy has dropped to its lowest level in nine years as U.S.
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One Person's Propaganda Is Another's News
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The General Accounting Office is investigating whether the Department of Health and Human Services' video news releases touting the new Medicare law constitute illegal "covert propaganda." Some PR pros think it's much ado about nothing: "VNRs have been around since the dawn of TV," said the
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Smile, And That's An Order
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When George W. Bush visited Fort Campbell as a warm up to the one-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion, he was met by happy soldiers waving flags and chanting "U.S.A!" "Bush outlined the triumphs of the 101st Airborne as a way to describe U.S. successes in Iraq over the past year. He celebrated the division's killing of Hussein's sons, the capture of various Iraqi cities, the construction of schools and medical clinics, and the preparation for Iraqi elections," the Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes. But the warm welcome wasn't exactly spontaneous.
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The Play's the Thing
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"It allows people to exercise a kind of hour of hate, or whatever George Orwell called it," said the drama critic for Egypt's largest newspaper, explaining the popularity of "a harshly anti-American show" called "Messing with the Mind." The writer, director and star, Khaled al-Sawy, said: "Most plays just weep about our general situation... I felt people wanted a play that talks about resisting." The U.S.
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Iraq on the Record
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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has released a report and database that identifies 237 specific misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq uttered by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
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