Of all the charges against Bradley Manning, the most pernicious— and revealing— is “aiding the enemy.”
Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract some facts.
Nuclear weapons can't be controlled by saying, in effect, "Do as we say, not as we do". By developing their own nuclear weaponry, one nation after another has replied to the nuclear-armed states: Whatever you say, we'll do as you've done.
The Sept. 25 edition of <i>Time</i> magazine illustrates how the US news media are gearing up for a military attack on Iran. The same kind of media spin—assuming a sincere Bush desire to avoid war—was profuse in the months before the invasion of Iraq
More than a dozen years ago, I joined with Jeff Cohen (founder of the media watch group FAIR) to establish the P.U.-litzer Prizes. Ever since then, the annual awards have given recognition to the stinkiest media performances of the year.
Now the Tehran-Washington axis of demagogues is more dangerous than ever. They're very likely to feed off each other, satisfying rabid domestic constituencies and stoking international tensions.
Early in the coldest season, optimists think of the day after solstice. It's predictable: the hemisphere will start tilting toward more light and warmth. But in the politics of human societies, there's no reliable way to tell how long a bone-rattling
With the presidential debates now behind us, the struggle for the White House will tilt even more toward decentralized media battles for electoral votes.
Overall, the news media helped to create a great market for war. The media war of 2004 is well underway. To the victor goes the White House.
Contrary to media cliches about 'the silly season', this is a time of very serious -- and probably catastrophic -- political maneuvers.
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