News Analysis By Dahr Jamail T r u t h o u t US Army Specialist Victor Agosto served a 13-month deployment in Iraq with the 57th Expeditionary Signal Battalion. “What I did there, I know I contributed to death and human suffering,” Agosto told Truthout from Fort Hood, in[Read More…]
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Media Matters: Charting a Misleading Course on Health Care
News Analysis Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Nothing sends media conservatives off the deep end quite like the issue of health care reform. This week was certainly no exception. This Wednesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News’ Glenn Beck blew up on a caller who dared to challenge his unyielding, misleading[Read More…]
The Dirty War in Iraq
by Dahr Jamail T r u t h o u t On Friday, June 12, Harith al-Obaidi, leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament, was shot dead outside a mosque just minutes after giving a sermon condemning the Maliki government for human rights[Read More…]
Nets Silent on Sexism of Anonymous Quotes Graham Used
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– On their July 14 evening news broadcasts, both ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News reported Sen. Lindsey Graham’s citation of anonymous criticism of Judge Sonia Sotomayor published in theAlmanac of the Federal Judiciary without noting that Sotomayor’s colleague on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge[Read More…]
Hannity And O’Reilly Ignore Accusations That CIA Misled Congress
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In May, Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity and their guests sharply criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for alleging that in 2002, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gave her false information about enhanced interrogation techniques, often suggesting it was ridiculous to claim the agency would ever[Read More…]
U.S. Occupation of Iraq Continues Unabated
by Dahr Jamail T r u t h o u t “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell On July 4 in Baghdad, Vice President Joe Biden, who campaigned with Barack Obama[Read More…]
GOP Strategist Ed Rollins: Sarah Palin Looks ‘Inept,’ Timing ‘Suspicious’
Embedded video from CNN Video Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– GOP Strategist Ed Rollins echoes what many are already speculating: Sarah Palin’s timing is very, very suspicious. “Everyone’s goint to assume there’s another story,” Rollins told CNN. “You don’t just quit with a year-and-a-half to go as governor. You certainly don’t do this[Read More…]
Fox News Runs with Global Temperature Decline Falsehood
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Following allegations that the EPA “suppressed” an internal document that was skeptical of climate change, several Fox News figures have advanced the document’s false claim — previously repeated by CBS — that, in Fox News host Steve Doocy’s words, “for the last 11 years, temperatures had been dropping.”[Read More…]
Fox News Continues To Ignore Climate Science
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– During a July 1O’Reilly Factor discussion about whether “the liberal media” are helping President Obama “advance his energy agenda by spreading global warming propaganda,” guest host Juan Williams advanced falsehoods about global warming. Williams did not challenge Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg when he falsely claimed that if[Read More…]
The Declaration of Independence – Happy 4th of July!
Have you read the Declaration of Independence recently? Do you remember the last time you read it? We owe it to ourselves to read these words again, thoughtfully, at least once a year. Happy 4th of July from eNews Park Forest. Enjoy this old blog post, signed by a bunch[Read More…]
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