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Dick Cheney’s Halliburton “sold nuclear technology to Iran”
Occupy Canada Dick Cheney’s Halliburton “sold nuclear technology to Iran” http://bit.ly/vsG6Q Senate hearing on foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies dealing with Iran Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. This clip […]
Alexander Reed Kelly> Privacy by Design
Privacy by Design By Alexander Reed Kelly July 24, 2012 truthdig.com Furryscaly (CC BY-SA 2.0) NEW YORK—Nicholas Merrill wants to change the world. So he tells me over rice and beans at Lupe’s East LA Kitchen in Soho, roughly a dozen blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. He is perfectly serious. At 39 […]
Peter Hart> On Drones and Democracy
On Drones and Democracy By Peter Hart 4/13/2012 FAIR Photo: AFP/Getty Yesterday (4/12/12) Pakistan’s parliament unanimously voted in favor of a resolution that, among other things, calls for an immediate end to CIA drone strikes in their country. The Washington Post‘s account of this news included this curious observation: From Washington’s perspective, the debate in Parliament was […]
Beeman Letter re Iran> FAIR Action Alert> NYT Misleads Readers on Iran Crisis & Robert Naiman> Judy Miller Alert re Iran
William Beeman Letter to the New York Times Greetings, Once again I must write objecting to gross inaccuracy in the New York Times’ reporting on Iran. In today’s paper ( “In Bold Step, Europe Nears Embargo on Iran Oil” January 5, 2012), Steven Erlanger writes: “a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy agency that […]
The Washington Post Doesn’t Understand Social Security
The Washington Post Doesn’t Understand Social Security Dave Johnson December 30, 2011 AlterNet See if you can spot the big mistake (giving them the benefit of the doubt) in this Washington Post story: Payroll tax cut raises worries about Social Security’s future funding: This year, the Social Security system projects that it will pay […]
Reading the Iran Nuke Leaks
Reading the Iran Nuke Leaks 11/08/2011 by Peter Hart FAIR When the International Atomic Energy Agency is about to release a report on an official enemy like Iran, you can be fairly confident that contents of the report–or what people believe should be in it–will be leaked to elite newspapers by anonymous sources in or near the IAEA, who will […]
Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards In Attack on Social Security
Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards In Attack on Social Security News outlets generally like to claim a separation between their editorial pages and their news pages. The Washington Post has long ignored this distinction in pursuing its agenda for cutting Social Security, however it took a big step further in tearing down this barrier […]
Will Occupy Wall Street’s Spark Reshape Our Politics? Katrina vaden Heuvel
Will Occupy Wall Street’s Spark Reshape Our Politics? Katrina vanden Heuvel on October 11, 2011 – 2:21pm ET Editor’s Note: Each week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column at the WashingtonPost.com. When the organizers of Occupy Wall Street first gathered to discuss their plan of action, the strategy that resonated most came […]
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