Support our troops?:
Has His Judgment Improved Any?
Look whose praises Christopher Hitchens was singing 30 years ago.
(Via Jonathan Schwarz. Dennis Perrin has further observations.)
Imperial Propaganda
The Cunning Realist commits an act of authentic journalism and exposes a propagandist.
Conclusion:
Short background on Bergner: He became head spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq in early June. His official title? Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects. He was Michael Gordon’s only source for this New York Times piece on alleged Iranian ties to the Karbala raid in which five American troops were killed. His previous position: Special Assistant to President Bush.
Memo to the “real” press: That’s how it’s supposed to be done.
Chris Floyd
It Doesn’t Have to be Like This
Chris Floyd (who’s Website is apparently being hacked), author, columnist, blogger and activist, discusses the phony war on terrorism, the politics of fear, racism and imperialism, America’s murderous regime change in Somalia and belligerent attitude toward Russia.
Chris Floyd is an award-winning American journalist, and author of the book, Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Regime. For more than 11 years he wrote the featured political column, Global Eye, for The Moscow Times and the St. Petersburg Times in Russia. He also served as UK correspondent for Truthout.org, and was an editorial writer for three years for The Bergen Record. His work appears regularly CounterPunch, The Baltimore Chronicle and in translation in the Italian paper, Il Manifesto, and has also been published in such venues as The Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, The Ecologist and many others. His articles are also featured regularly on such websites as Information Clearing House, Buzzflash, Bushwatch, LewRockwell.com, Antiwar.com, and many others. His work has been cited in The New York Times, USA Today, the Guardian, the Independent and other major newspapers.
Floyd co-founded the blog Empire Burlesque with webmaster Richard Kastelein, who created the site using open-source software. Floyd is also chief editor of Atlantic Free Press, which was founded and designed by Kastelein. Floyd has been a writer and editor for more than 25 years, working in the United States, Great Britain and Russia for various newspapers, magazines, the U.S. government and Oxford University.
Greg Mitchell
Michael R. Gordon and the Times Lying Us Into Another War
Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher, discusses New York Times/War Party propagandist Michael R. Gordon’s tenuous grasp of the truth, the failure of his editors to make the slightest effort to reign him in and the failure of American newspaper editors in general to oppose the war despite the fact that 77% of the American people are against it.
Greg Mitchell is the author of six nonfiction books. His articles – including many on baseball – have appeared in New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, TV Guide, Mother Jones, Sport magazine, Quest, and other publications. Mitchell was a senior editor at Crawdaddy for many years. He lives in Nyack, New York.
Brian Conley on GMA Thursday
Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad will appear in a segment on Good Morning America July 5. The show airs 7-9 a.m. Eastern.