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92.4% of Burmese people love their Military Junta

Do No Evil – A new constitution proposed by Burma's military rulers has been overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, according to the country's state-run media. The junta said 92.4% voted "yes" in the ballot and reported…

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Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Eric Boehlert

Politics – Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and author of Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush, discusses the Pentagon's army of retired generals sent out to disseminate the war party's propaganda,…

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Pentagon "Media Analysts" Appeared On Major Networks Or…

News – In April, The New York Times published a story exposing the deep ties between numerous media military analysts and the Pentagon and defense industries.

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / 1 sink

More on Pentagon's illegal "domestic propaganda campaign"

Politics – The Pentagon has posted the 8,000 pages and audio tapes it was forced to provide to the New York Times regarding its "military analyst" program. Anyone who reads through them, as I've now done, can only be left…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 59 votes / 4 sinks

Embedding the Analysts: Modern-Day Propaganda?

Do No Evil – Setbacks in Iraq - like the generals' revolt, the Abu Ghraib scandal, and the growing insurgency - brought pushback from the Pentagon by way of a new set of talking points for the well-schooled retirees.

This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / 3 sinks

Collapse of the Fourth Estate

Politics – In March, on the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the nation's major news outlets reflected on the war and what led us to the half-decade mark. But few evaluated their own roles in the disaster…

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Myanmar Junta Turns International Aid Into Form of Propaganda

News – YANGON, Myanmar ââ;¬" Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 21 votes / 1 sink

CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo

Do No Evil – The Pentagon has posted to its website the roughly 8,000 pages and audio tapes it was forced to provide to NYT regarding its "military analyst" program. Anyone who reads through them can only be left with one conclusion:…

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Oil Lobby Reaches Out to Citizens Peeved at the Pump

Do No Evil – The American Petroleum Institute, the industry's main lobby, has embarked on a multiyear, multimedia, multimillion-dollar campaign, which includes advertising in the nation's largest newspapers, news conferences…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 41 votes / 4 sinks

The Engineering Of Consent Redux

Do No Evil – Who should we blame for retired military men getting themselves hired by TV networks to be talking head cheerleaders for "progress" in Iraq? The Pentagon? The media? Our elected officials and presidential wanabees?…

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New York Times continues to peddle Iraq war propaganda

Politics – On March 16, the New York Times presented a discussion of the Iraq War with "nine experts on military and foreign affairs"--all of whom supported George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. Why does the NYT continue to peddle…

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I.O.C. Rules Will Limit Protests by Athletes -

Politics – Athletes who compete in the Beijing Olympics will not be allowed to wave flags, make gestures or alter their external appearance to make a political statement, according to guidelines issued in April by the International…

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Warring as Lying Throughout American History

Do No Evil – Lying and warring appear to be two sides of the same coin. Unfortunately, many Americans continue to be gullible when presidents claim a need to commence killing foreigners. It remains to be seen whether the citizenry…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 26 votes / 3 sinks

Damascus in the Crosshairs: The Syrian Affair

Politics – Peace between Israel and Syria is not on the neo-cons' agenda for the Middle East, and what better way to derail it than to accuse Syria of trying to make nuclear weapons? Kristol and company know that, were Olmert…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 38 votes / 3 sinks

Propaganda Meets Corporate Lobbying

Politics – What the Pentagon Pundits Were Selling on the Side

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Top Democrat: Investigate "Potentially Illegal" Military…

News – One of Congress' leading progressive figures sent a harsh letter to the Department of Defense on Friday demanding an investigation into reports of an "extensive propaganda program" involving the Pentagon, network…

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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand - New York Times

Television – A PENTAGON CAMPAIGN Retired officers have been used to shape terrorism coverage from inside the TV and radio networks.

This story has mostly positive ratings. 42 votes / No sinks

The Campaign Nonsense Du Jour

Politics – There's something maddening about this presidential campaign. It has become irrelevant whether anything the candidates say actually makes sense. All that matters is how their words will "play" with voters who are…

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Mission Accomplished: Five Years, Two Words, No Letup

Politics – "Five years ago today, President Bush addressed our nation and the world from the USS Abraham Lincoln only 42 days after he ordered the invasion of Iraq; he declared 'Mission Accomplished,' " the Democratic congressman…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 32 votes / 1 sink

PR Play of the Decade

Do No Evil – This story should go down in history as a premier example of implausible deniability. It should be a case study in PR textbooks for years to come.

This story has mostly positive ratings. 32 votes / No sinks

TV Networks Remain Mum on 'NYT' Pentagon/Media 'Propaganda'…

Politics – "This steadfast blackout occurs despite the fact that the Pentagon propaganda program almost certainly violates numerous federal laws; both Democratic presidential candidates sternly denounced the Pentagon's conduct;…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / 2 sinks

Conservative: Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law

Politics – The Pentagon military analyst program unveiled in last week's exposÃ;© by David Barstow in the New York Times was not just unethical but illegal. It violates, for starters, specific restrictions that Congress has…

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Pentagon Suspends Briefings for Analysts

Politics – The Pentagon announced on Friday that it was suspending its briefings for retired military officers who often appear as military analysts on television and radio programs.

Busted, Yet FoxNews Continues Pentagon's Covert Propaganda
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Busted, Yet FoxNews Continues Pentagon's Covert Propaganda

Politics – On Sunday, a week after the Times story broke, Fox was still airing -- without disclosure -- exposed pundit Thomas McInerney. Last Wednesday, they aired another pundit, Robert H. Scales. See them for yourself:

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / 1 sink

The neoconning of a nation

Do No Evil – The Pentagon has duped Americans by organizing a bunch of retired U.S. generals -- mislabelled "independent military experts" -- to shill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Watch these rent-a-generals again prostitute…

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