Archive for September, 2005


28
Sep

A Time for Unlearning Received ‘Truth’

PUBLIC RAPED BY FALSE STORIES
MEDIA: WHAT ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT?
DEMOS MARKS YEAR 5
Today is the day of the tomato. In 1820 on this date, the tomato was publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson ate a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts. Medicinal cannabis was banned on this date in the UK back in 1971. In […]


28
Sep

The Fog of News

WAR NEWS AND ANTI-WAR NEWS
Reuters speaks out:

LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) — The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
In a letter to Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner, head of the Senate Armed Services […]


28
Sep

Our Demos: Let the People Speak

Greg McKay writes:

Sam Smith’s quote that the reporting of Bush’s “Military State Plan” was prejudicial to an extreme is not without merit. And I appreciate that he remains open-minded that the plan may not be entirely benevolent. But I believe we’ve seen that forward-looking reporting like this — even the extreme — is […]

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