Topic: - on March 9, 2003 at 12:39:55 AM CET
Going Off to War Supplied With Lies
"War whore" is the name. They’re the ladies and gentlemen of the media who whoop, holler and thigh-slap the United States into war. Day in and day out, hour after hour, on the TV news channels in particular, they tingle with happy excitement as they strain to infect their viewers (and somewhat less often, their readers) with their enthusiasm for the looming death and disfigurement of others.
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Topic: - on March 9, 2003 at 12:33:57 AM CET
Propaganda War: One Year Later
The Selling of America
Shortly after 9-11, GNN asked Dr. Nancy Snow, author of Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America’s Culture to the World, to explain how the U.S. propaganda machine really works. Dr. Snow, a former cultural officer with the United States Information Agency, should know. She worked in the belly of the beast. Since our last conversation, the war of words and images has intensified, with Osama's jihad tapes and American music videos going head to head in a battle royale for the hearts and minds of the world. Now Dr. Snow has just published the 2nd edition of Propaganda, Inc. (Seven Stories Press, 2002) and a forthcoming second book, Information War: American Propaganda, Opinion Control and Free Speech Since 9/11 (Seven Stories Press, 2003). She shares thoughts on how the propaganda war has played out since that dark September day.
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Topic: - on March 9, 2003 at 12:30:46 AM CET
The Pentagon's New Map
Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world—and a military strategy to accompany it. Now there’s a leading contender. It involves identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them. Since September 11, 2001, the author, a professor of warfare analysis, has been advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense and giving this briefing continually at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community. Now he gives it to you.
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Topic: - on March 9, 2003 at 12:17:54 AM CET
RIAA's 'Hide The Website' game moves to Virginia
The RIAA's travelling "Hide The Website" gameshow rolled into Virginia this week, with a new hosting company given the privilege (or curse) of looking after one of the world's most reviled web destinations.
But this strange story gets even stranger.
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Topic: - on March 9, 2003 at 12:07:58 AM CET
Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74
The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.
Most Americans don't know anything about the Madrid discovery.
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Topic: - on March 9, 2003 at 12:00:35 AM CET
Some evidence on Iraq called fake
A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated, the United Nations’ chief nuclear inspector said yesterday in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq’s secret nuclear ambitions.
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