Media's War Images Delude Instead of Inform

The picture was perfect. It provided a moving portrait, an image that journalists called "iconic." It was true to the moment. Yet the photograph was deceiving in a way that media images often are -- showing us what's more apparent than real.

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 – FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE 

HUGH THOMPSON, the American helicopter pilot who courageously intervened to save Vietnamese civilians from massacre by US troops at My Lai, Vietnam in 1968, has died of cancer, aged 62.

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Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad

With Ariel Sharon out of the picture, Benjamin Netanyahu has a better chance to become prime minister of Israel.

He's media savvy. He knows how to spin on American television. And he's very dangerous.

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The Laws I Live By.

In the course of human events, there will come a time, when one must break the polite and political bonds they live by. In these moments of uncertainty, and reflection, each of us as individuals, are placed in a terrible position.

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Big Brother Bush Is Listening

      In an assertion of executive power that rivals the excesses of the McCarthy era of the late 1940's and 1950's, and the dreaded COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence program) of the 1950's and 1960's, George W. Bush's National Security Agency has been secretly spying on United States citizens without warrants for the last three years.

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Elizabeth de la Vega on Shooting the Moon in 2006

I have to admit that some of the responses to my recent article The White House Criminal Conspiracy (published in the Nation and posted at Tomdispatch.com), in which I argued that the Bush administration should be brought to account in Congress or a court of law for defrauding the American people into war, kept me up at night. No, not the ones that questioned my sanity or sobriety.

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Fear and Loathing at San Quentin

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Cool Hand Luke

Barbara Bechnel, Phil Gasper and others are admirably articulating the ideological factors that led to the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams. I want here to try to address another dimension because I want to believe that those who supported Stan's death remain members of the human community and so can be addressed accordingly. Perhaps even persuaded to reconsider their views so that what happened in San Quentin on December 13th will be terminated.

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