Who else is Iran arming in Iraq? What the media isn’t saying.

Salon's War Room presents Fox's coverage as a case of especially shoddy journalism regarding Iran's alleged provision of arms to forces hostile to the US in Iraq: Let's say for the sake of argument that the administration is right on two key points: that Iranian arms are indeed flowing into…

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Noam Chomsky on the reason the U.S. won’t relinquish control of Iraq

Chomsky wrote that it all has to do with corporate power and oil.  Here is an excerpt from The Independent, an article entitled "The US says it is fighting for democracy - but is deaf to the cries of the Iraqis"   Sovereignty in Iraq might well lead to a loose Shia alliance controlling most…

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Don’t let the White House gut the budget of Public Broadcasting

President Bush’s new budget proposal cuts more than $53 million money from the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the agency that allocates federal money for NPR, PBS and other federally funded media.  This is a quarter of the CPB budget.  This same budget will drastically crank up…

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