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Inflated? Two views on war dead in Iraq

Some simply do not believe the figure of 470 dying per day. For an opposing view see AP, NYT Report Inflated Number of Deaths in Iraq (NB This site aims … Continue reading

12 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Wars and propaganda machines

By Rodrigue Tremblay “The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements — I had no idea until then that you could not rely … Continue reading

11 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

FAIR’s verdict on PBS Newshour

Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour Public TV’s flagship news program offers standard corporate fare Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) :: 4 October 2006 The … Continue reading

10 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Fisk: The Age of Terror – a landmark report

Robert Fisk looks back at lifetime of war coverage With chaos stretching from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean, we have never lived in a more dangerous time. Over the next 15 … Continue reading

9 October, 2006 · 3 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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