From: Archibald Scatflinger (TransdimensionalElf@hawaii.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 12:27:28 MDT
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Subject: Disinformation Newsletter: Monday September 16, 2002
> Disinformation Newsletter: Monday September 16, 2002
> Edited by Alex Burns (alex@disinfo.com)
>
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> Today's "Oblique Strategies" Reading:
> "Decorate, decorate."
>
> Today's Quote: "Even after a full year of media "analysis" of
> 9/11, Americans still have little knowledge of brutal U.S. foreign
> interventions - amply documented by Noam Chomsky and other scholars -
> or the enormous power and wealth imbalances in the world that Jean
> Chrétien usefully observed last week."
> ~~ Linda McQuaig, "Media Frenzy Feeds US Delusions Over Attack"
> (http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0915-02.htm)
>
> Four days ago we celebrated our sixth birthday: Disinformation was
> launched on 13 September 1996 by co-conspirators Gary Baddeley and
> Richard Metzger. We've evolved through several different editors and
> formats, yet McQuaig's comment explains our War on Terror focus: to
> bring you what we feel is the most important news each day (from Russ
> Kick's ever-lengthening site bookmark list) and to provide a positive
> critique of the American news media. Inspired by Oliver Stone's liberal
> stance (see the "Mr. X" speech in "JFK"), Gary and Richard had the
> vision of creating an "alternative CNN" that went beyond the much-quoted
> "CNN Effect" ("If it bleeds, it leads") and encompassed a multiperspctival
> style of news coverage. Along with our Disinformation Books, recent
> releases by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Ziauddin Sardar have introduced
> a new audience to the dark side of US foreign policy interventions. How
> does America's military strategists view the media and its role during
> the War on Terror? For one perspective, check out this in-depth National
> Defense University study. The issues are more nuanced than Hollywood
> stereotypes might suggest (also our role: to tweak "mental models"):
> http://www.ndu.edu/icaf/IS2001/newsmedia.htm
>
> Democrats Question Timing On Iraq Demands
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22098-2002Sep15.html
>
> Private Info Becoming Plane Truth
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55037,00.html
>
> Musicians v RIAA
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-15-artists-rights_x.htm
>
> Australia Taps More Phones Than US
>
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5104160%255E27
02,00.html
>
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> Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
> (Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald)
> http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id2691/pg1/
>
> "A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush
> and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure
> 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001."
>
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> Water Works (Vikki Kratz, Capital Eye)
> http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id2692/pg1/
>
> "Who owns the country's drinking water? An obscure battle in
> Congress is about to decide."
>
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> White House Drags Its Feet on Testifying at 9/11 Panel
> (James Risen, NY Times) http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id2686/pg1/
>
> "The Bush administration is balking at a request from Congress that
> Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald H.
> Rumsfeld testify in public before the Congressional committee
> investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, government officials said."
>
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> Featuring a range of confronting and controversial essays
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> Nick Mamatas, Greg Palast and many more. Edited by Russ Kick.
>
> * The Quality Paperback Book Club (QPB) Main Selection (July 2002)
> * Publishers Weekly Notable Softcover (June 2002)
> * Book Magazine (September/October 2002)
>
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> You Are Being Lied To (Disinfo Books)
> http://store.disinfo.com
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> A massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroys the
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> * Publishers Weekly "Book of the Day" for 31 October 2001
> * BookSense 76 pick for November/December 2001
> * Quality Paperback Book Club selection
>
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