Archive for July, 2005


28
Jul

Repeat After Me: War On “Violent Extremists”

NOTE TO READERS: I will be in Europe through August 8. My blogging may be sporadic. See below.
NY TIMES QUOTE OF THE DAY:
From NASA after last night’s announcement that the space shuttle would be grounded:
“We decided it was safe to fly as is. Obviously, we were wrong.” Recall the email to this blog by Dale […]


28
Jul

Media in the News and The News of Media

CNN: New arrest in Pearl case
From Pakistan comes word of a new arrest in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl. A man named Hashim Qadeer, was arrested Wednesday…..
FINDING THE KILLER
Greg Mitchell has another big story in Editor and Publisher cited on the European Journalism Center:
“One of the most remarkable […]


28
Jul

Your Letters and Comments

YOUR LETTERS
Jack Shultz writes from Canada:
”There has always been, for me, a very bad smell about 9/11. I don’t know if its the PNAC declaration that it will take a “Pearl Harbour like incident to mobilize the American public for war in Iraq” back in 1998, or the testimony of former FBI agents such as […]

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Weapons of Mass Deception (WMD) goes inside the military-media complex, exposing the war the world saw but Americans didn't.

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