Month: February 2007

More Fakery from ABC News

ABC News’ website is now carrying a weird, poorly written story about Iran weapons in Iraq that does not contain a single reference or source outside of U.S. military sources. The story, not surprisingly, stenographically...

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This Week on the Terror Timeline: Part 2

Paul Thompson’s The Terror Timeline is the indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the events leading up to, during, and after the events of September 11th, 2001.   Welcome to the second installment of a...

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"NEWS WAR"

Tuesday on FRONTLINE (PBS) The Press’s “Perfect Storm” More than a year ago, FRONTLINE began a special project on the news business. Our initial question sounded simple. We wanted to know: what’s...

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Ralph Nader, An Unreasonable Man

I’ll probably get flamed for this by some “Nader is the devil” person, but I will second Robert Kuttner’s excellent article about the new Ralph Nader documentary, An Unreasonable Man, which I saw Saturday...

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What Goes On in Our Prisons

Human Rights Watch has issued a report on male-on-male prison rape in American prisons. As part of their research they solicited mail from prisoners. The following letter is the one they chose to open their report. Hat tip to...

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