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maxstanley wrote a new diary post: How Revisionist Reporting Hurts Everyone
Media lapdogs are marked by stenographic tendencies, sympathetic frames and a reliance on industry jargon. Politico’s latest report about Congressional Republicans working to undo looming defense cuts meets all three criteria. The piece is accurately headlined ” GOP eager to scuttle defense cuts ,” and nowhere in the article is any reference to data disputing the Republicans’ [...]
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maxstanley commented on the diary post Will Blackwater Ever Do Right? by maxstanley.
@papau so true. Katy’s feeling is that there’s no justice for these guys and I’m afraid to say she might be right.
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maxstanley wrote a new diary post: Will Blackwater Ever Do Right?
It’s was like a meaningless coda, as the war contractors at Blackwater USA changed its name again, two weeks after delivering Katy Helvenston-Wettengel with another insult. For the last eight years, Helvenston-Wettengel has been fighting for justice and accountability for the preventable death of her son, a Blackwater employee named Scott Helvenston , in Iraq. “Child prostitution, gun-running, [...]
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maxstanley wrote a new diary post: Job Creation at Home Requires Peace Abroad
As more Americans sour on our 10-year-old national nation-building experiment in Afghanistan, there’s a growing community of policy mandarins, activists and elites uniting to expose the myriad of ways war spending and military contracting have plunged our nation into a jobs crisis. The existing counter insurgency operation in Afghanistan is hurting the American economy, and there [...]
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maxstanley wrote a new diary post: The Koch brothers lost in North Carolina
Ohio, Mississippi and Maine got a lot of the headlines, but North Carolina voters also struck a heroic blow against the Koch brothers in elections Tuesday night. Charles and David Koch were obviously not on the ballot, but the election was a referendum on their influence in Raleigh, N.C. Their presence in North Carolina has roots [...]
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maxstanley wrote a new diary post: The Myth of Military Contracting
The war industry stood back with glee when it released a shoddy study that produced the sought-after deceptive headlines about defense spending, the magic sauce of job creation. There was no balance to these reports, and the War Industry should know, because they funded it! A cursory or peer review of its content would’ve demonstrated the leaps [...] -
maxstanley wrote a new diary post: Koch Industries Confirms Greenpeace Report
No sooner had Greenpeace busted the Koch brothers and their 57 subsidiary corporations for their fight against safety standards to mitigate fallout from terrorist attacks and natural disasters, the brothers responded by… acknowledging what Greenpeace reported. The crux of the matter is the Koch brothers’ fierce lobbying effort to preserve the status quo, which benefits their ideology [...]
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