Excellent NYT Sunday Magazine story describing, basically, an interview between the author and Senator McCain regarding the evolution of McCain's views on the War in Iraq and the differing views of his fellow Congressional Vietnam veterans. The headline, written in the plural ("Doctrines"), perhaps means to convey those evolutionary changes, but the article still disappoints in that it is so tightely restricted to discussions regarding the comparisons of the Vietnam and Iraq wars. ... More »

A very revealing article and video that should be read and shown on TV all across the nation and EXPOSED AND REPEATED by the MSM 24/7 FOR ABOUT FIVE WEEKS. - - which is as likely as everyone getting a 100% income tax rebate for ten years. Rod Parsley, an arrogant, self-righteous maniac with a minimum of formal education, runs the Pentacostal "World Harvest Church" in Columbus, Ohio, a fundamentalist congregation of a type that is typicallly attended in so many towns in the greatest ... More »

Leave it to a British news source to lay out the dirty laundry of the US corporate press to inform its readers about the perfidy of the American media. The US author candidly spells out a story of frustation engendered by a candidate being hounded endlessly by the US MS creating and promoting a fake furor. It would be interesting to see if this piece or something expressing the same sentiments has ever appeared in any local news source in North Carolina. What the British may not ... More »

While at least this major pundit, Frank Rich, writing for a US corporate newspaper, has finally let the cat out of the bag regarding the fake Obama/Wright "connection" and the media campaign to distract and diminish Obama, it is interesting that his own newspaper, the NYT, has been one of the culprits in promoting the very "furor" to which he refers as BORING. While the Washington Post (the beltway den of that titular "dean" of pundits, David Broder, exposing his political biases ... More »

An informative story from the usually dependable THE HILL. The illegal role of Freedom Watch smearing and poltical dirty tricks reputation is confirmed here, although rarely in the MSM. However, I have read elsewhere that Cazayoux is rather conservative, both fiscally and socially - - something this report ignores. It remains to be seen if a Louisianinan can be anything but a red state "Democratic" conservative, like Mary Landrieu who often favors Republican measures in the Senate, ... More »

It's not really Reverend Wright the corporate media are trying to "make look bad", it's Obama, of course. Guilt by association was perfected by the WashPost, and TV bloviators like MSNBC's Chris Matthews back in the 90's with their attacks on the Clintons. Now their using the same propaganda tactics to undermine Barack - - and Hillary hasn't helped. McCain may be a hapless opportunist, but he is at least not taking advantage of this sneaky Wright charade. And speaking of MSNBC, check ... More »

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I read it, but the NewsTrust title for the piece is inaccurate. It should read "BUSH ATTEMPTS TO DEFEND THE FACT THAT HE HAS NO ECONOMIC RECORD, BUT ONLY A BROKEN RECORD. No plan, no "record", just repetetion and pale assertons that happier times are just ahead. Pathetic, what a moron dreams about !

Garbage. This reads like an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. The Economist (just like the WSJ) just can't seem to manage to keep its editorial nose out if politics or social issues in which it has neither expertise nor experience, but only a right wing, pro-corporate ideological position.

I have no reason to doubt this rarther complete and detailed report. It cerainly seems to reach out to confirm its contentions, so I will accept it at face value. That is something that is not necessarily a foregone conclusion, given the fact that the MSM has so often such a dubious way with the truth these days. Still, every time I read a report that a top Al Qaeda leader, "insurgent" chief, or important advisor to a "terrorist" organization, I am greatly impressed that these ... More »

Is this columnist kidding? Hasn't he yet decided on the reason the National Press Club invited Reverend Wright to speak under the pretext that those oh so innocent newspeople simply wanted to hear the reverend "explain himself" ? If our writer hasn't yet got the message, I have some ocean front property in Nebraska in which he might consider investing. Still, this is the very first indication that someone in the media has so far raised even the tiniest doubt whether the National ... More »

Well ! Someone else is finally coming to the realization that maybe there's gigantic fly in the ointment in this election. Are pundits sooo shallow and sooo naive that they cannot see the workings of the overheated and far too deeply involved corporate media and running far too many"debates", the latest one (ABC) a blatant attempt to embarass both Obama and Clinton ? And now the eyes of few pundits are opening and seeing, maybe - or its rumored that, a Hillary supporter is behind ... More »

To say that the AP has "fallen for" the efforts by the McCain campaign and the RNC to prevent the media from examining and publicizing "his own words against him" is naive and very far off the mark. The AP and the rest of the corporate media DO NOT INTEND to use anything against McCain. He is THEIR CANDIDATE. They will work to distract and ultimately destroy the Obama campaign with such Swift Boating occasions as the National Press Club's invitation to Reverend Wright in order to ... More »

Good article, this time actually specifying who on the Supreme Court voted to uphold the blatantly biased and (Democratic) voter disenfranchising Indiana law. I wonder of those "eminently practical" justices who sit on the court - - Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Stevens, Scalia, and Scalia's lap dog, Thomas - - primarily to serve the Republican Party might consider (in their "eminently practical" way, as Scalia put it last evening on TV's " 60 Minutes") that such measures which serve only ... More »

Leave it to Newsweek to pass on the glorious advice from their hero - - the Iago who still works behind the stage doing whatever he can to continue corrupting the politcal atmosphere. Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, the rest of the MSM, and Rove have had their day. All three will see declining fortunes after the public and a new administration in DC, followig the November election, will watch them swirl down the hopper with the rest of the waste that is today's "journalism" ... More »

A good commentrary on the perfidy of the corporate news media in working so diligently to control our elections of their benefit. However, I wonder that after contributing so much toward eliminating Biden and others, including her husband (who had the most comprehensive health plan and stood up to the corporations, including the corporate media), if Elizabeth Edwards realizes that the corporate media are now trying their damndest to eliminate Obama. Since they much prefer their ... More »

What kind of journalism totally ignores the gigantic elephant in the room ? Not one mention of the continuing and incredibly expensive occupation of Iraq and the continuing and incredibly expensive war in Afghanistan - - and who knows where else (no one knows because of the extreme penchant for secrecy of the Cheney/Bush mob). YES, YES, YES, I know the costs of the MidEast disasters are "OFF BUDGET" but that sneaky little Cheney/ Bush ploy means nothing. THE BILL WILL COME DUE and ... More »

This piece a should have been entitled "Here's ONE Of the Superdelegates. But ONLY One." OK article, but it would much better serve American voters if the US media were to provide a complete list of ALL the superdelegates, especially since this report is British - - and in a newspaper that I actually reading in preference to the US corporate fish wrappers. We already know many of the biographies of superdelegates who occasionally appear on TV, but the identities of the rest are a ... More »

A sound, logical, and informed opinion piece, if a bit optimistic. The author seems to largely disregard the pernicious influence of the media in favoring their favorite flip-flopping, pandering, dishonest, ill-informed, pseudo-maverick. That bias has been expressed in veiled form all over TV, newspapers, and news magazines. Columnists like Gloria Borger, for one example and not the most extreme, are just panting with expectation for Karl Rove, her hero, to come to McCain's rescue ... More »

An excellent and very much needed exposition of the current corporate dominated state of the USA, offering some remedies that suggest strategies that could turn the sitiuation around - - if Americans become aware of the extent by which their lives are indeed dominated by corporate interests. HOWEVER, the article fails to point out one very central area of corporate activity that must be recognized as a key element in addition to the others the author has underlined. The "ultimate ... More »

Another reviewer suggests that the Dem candidates should repond to "questions" inserted by Fox News and the opposition. Nice idea in an honest medium, but the opposition is anything but honest. The "questions" are inserted only to drive the candidates "off message" and off the real issues, and besides, the candidates have already answered any such questions (at least any that make any sense) and have already debunked the nonsense. In any event, these "debates" have been a total ... More »

It remains to be seen whether the voters of Pennsylvania will have made such a fuss over this "bitter" remark nonsense than the Clinton campaign or the media. Right now the mainstream media, while ignoring real news about the bloody mess in Iraq, are opportunistically making a pretend issue of a few words by Obama, while the Clinton campaign, in its desperation to win in PA, is pushing the envelope as far as possible. It's a sad comment on both the Clinton political machine and the press.

Very few Americans possess knowledge of the situation in Zimbabwe. Given such limited accounts in the brief stories in our US our press, this story seems quite a thorough and unbiased account of the pending disaster there. Imagine! A brutal 85 year old dictator unwillng to relinquish the reins of his corrupt government and now is setting his gangs of murdering roughs after the "opposition". Much blood will flow in Zimbabwe if this monster and his well paid followers are not first ... More »

The article is informative, but in some instances laced with speculation - something we have learned to expect when independent journalists are prohibited from observing events as they develop. Having observed so many mass murders and tribal genocides in Africa and elsewhere especially in recent decades, we may suppose that we must now expect to witness another round of the same initiated by an 85 year old monster who is perfectly willing have his paramilitary thugs massacre many of ... More »

Utterly biased, triumphant noise from right wing, military "journalists". About as reliable as a victory report from the Pentagon or a "Mission Achieved" rally on an aircraft carrier in safe water. Take a look at the resumes of the staff.

Dan Rather represents the kind of journalist that the rest of the news world has almost totally forgotten, forced out, or simply set aside by the TV producers, press editors, publishers, and owners who are not interested in journalism, least of all investigative journalism, but running businesses that will maximize their bank accounts. And they are failing miserably because Americans want the kind of "free press'" as expressed in the Constitution. Greedy for money and power, ... More »

Wagner and Sancho are well known as deluded crackpots to the community if physicists and engineers who work at accelerator facilities all over the world. The W & S "resumes" indicate that they have virtually no science in their backgrounds, except that legal beagle Wagner claims he once worked as a radiation safety officer for the VA and Sancho claims he is a "time researcher" of some sort. Yes, and we will believe them if they agree that little white laboratory mice will not likely ... More »

I can only repeat what some other respondents have already expressed. Or, in other words, the book promotes tha notion that inorance is bliss.

We have come to expect so many distortions and lies from our "leaders" in DC and the mainstream media, so commonly, that this realistic interpretation of the service of our troops in Iraq is no longer shocking. According to our patriotic, victory-in-Iraq deluded VP Cheney, in referring to the 4,000 US soldiers killed in Iraq: "They were volunteers". That's the mind set of a dictatorial monster. He layers grotesque insensitivity about the dead, while ignoring the tens of thousands of ... More »

Flush with repeated quotes from military personnel, claiming the glorious "recovery" of Fallouja, this report reads so obviously like a script prepared by the US military for the reporter that it stuns the reader. The reporter evidently, did not engage in any investigative journalism. No rationale was given for the underlying developments that have led to the return to "normalcy" there. It is simply another piece of stenographic "journalism" brought to you by the promoters of the ... More »

While we certainly appreciate the detailed and solid Scientific American report on the celebrated work of Dr. (I assume he has a PhD) Shulgin and his wife, one wonders if the psychological and "mental" effects - - which are so very subjective - - are necessarily measurable and/or produce something with tangable meaning. Still, his work has inestimable value. Regarding the subjective nature of the mental effects of various psychoactive compounds, perhaps Dr. Shulgin might be ... More »

An excellent, if brief, report and analysis revealing the bankrupt ideology of the G W Bush administration. But the gigantic elephant in the room is the fact that such a piece appears in a British newspaper and virtually NEVER in any of the mainstream, corporate owned newspapers or TV news channels in the USA. That fact is even more salient than the customary knee jerk policies of a corrupt administration. The American press is acting as the handmaiden of the Cheney/Bush mob. In ... More »

Since this Politico article is really an opinion piece and is hardly noted for sound evidence or logic, any other opinion bearing even a modicum of "evidence" is just as valid. The notion that successful negative campaigning must have been the reason for a candidate's victory is tendentious at best. Does Politico's Ben Smith really know anything, for example, about the State of Ohio ? The entire portion of the State south of Akron, Ohio (and including parts of Akron itself) - - with ... More »

Such nonsense as spread by the Hillary Clinton camp is be expected in a political campaign. But the fact that media pundits are wrong, or worse, ignorant of the facts, and in some cases biased as well, is inexcusable. When, after reading columns by Paul Krugman criticising Obama's health care plans, I e-mailed the Obama campaign and subsequently received a 17-page report by e-mail presenting his plans in comprehensive detail. It was downright impressive - - even though after reading ... More »

I SMELL A ROTTEN FISH.

However sanguine Prof. Krugman's assessment of the "Edward's Effect" may seem, it appears likely, at present, given some of the proposals offered by Obama and Clinton, and their attachment to lobbyists in Washington and across the nation, Edwards' hard-hitting anti-corporate and health care platform measures will affect the Dem ticket only if he is able to wield sufficient influence at the Dem Convention, is included on the Dem ticket as a truly active V.P., or is appointed to a ... More »

Robert Novak's judgment is so unreliable that one cannot take his columns with anything but a grain (several pounds, more accurately) of salt. Since Novak is a knee jerk neoconservative and just plain old JERK, his columns are largely a waste of newsprint. He hates McCain because he and his colleagues in the neocon business, the Fox News media, and the radio talk show howlers are all against McCain since old John McC had not-so-very-long-ago blown so much smoke criticizing the ... More »

While Eric Bohlert's article hits hard, and deservedly, at the recent, self inflicted misfortunes of Fox News, his report fails to remind us of just who the bosses are at Fox News and whence they originated back in the 90's when FN first began to appear on TV. This reminder will serve well in understanding the sly Fox. Roger Ailes was one of Lee Atwater's close associates, his media man, back in the early 90's when Atwater was the RNC chief and first launched the campaign in Arkansas ... More »

A revealing expose of the tactics being employed by the DOD to protect from the law the inept and criminal G W Bush crony, Gonazales. We have known for quite some time that Bush has infiltrated every department and agency of the US government, not to mention the Supreme Court, with an array of his cronies and flunkies. The accusations leveled at Scott Bloch, which have never been proved, may well have originted with the Bush plants in the Office of Special Counsel. And it is most ... More »

For Scientific American, a magazine I have, as a scientist, read for many years and respect highly (although I do not subscribe to SA MIND), this assessment strikes me as a rather shallow analysis that, more crucially, fails to take into account major influences on the judgments made by the press and the public. To suggest that the deceptions were not "premeditated" seems an unwarranted selection of the motivations involved. "Premeditation" by the publics or the media had nothing to ... More »

A fair assessment of the Bush administrative disaster and G W's reportedly low key, scripted performance. I appreciated this piece especially because, as was apparently true across the nation, I did not watch the SOTU speech, regarding it as a waste of time. But in my case, it happens that this was also true of all his other SOTU addresses.