https://www.fair.org/activism/medicare-networks.htmlACTION ALERT: Networks Don't Follow the Money in Medicare StoryDecember 2, 2003The nightly network newscasts devoted significant broadcast time to the debate over the restructuring of Medicare. But while some reports described the corporate interests that stood to gain under the plan to offer a prescription drug … [Read more...] about -Networks Hide the Important Story of why politicians support medical care plan
-Peaceboat: No SDF Soldiers to Iraq
This is late, but here is one group which has been fighting against the sending of SDF soldiers to Iraq.Tell Koizumi: No SDF Troops to Iraq! Street E-mail CampaignPlace: Shinjuku East Exit (opposite Alta Bldg.) Date: Tuesday December 2, 2003 Time: 5:00 - 7:00pmPeace Boat heading the rising tide of public opinion strongly rejects the decision taken by the Government to … [Read more...] about -Peaceboat: No SDF Soldiers to Iraq
-ZNet Commentary: Perhaps Hussein Read Tolstoy And Bush’s People Didn?ft
Support Znet's Sustainer program https://zmag.orgThere is an eerie similarity between Leo Tolstoy?fs novel, War and Piece, which describes with considerable accuracy Napoleon?fs 1812 invasion of Russia and George Bush?fs 2003 invasion of Iraq.Napoleon, after quick victories throughout Europe, decided to take on his former ally, Russia. Napoleon had the most powerful army … [Read more...] about -ZNet Commentary: Perhaps Hussein Read Tolstoy And Bush’s People Didn?ft
-Why Japan Remains a Threat to Peace and Democracy in Asia
by Kenichi AsanoKenichi Asano is a Professor of Communication Studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.from Censored 2004Most people from this region, as well as other parts of the globe, would be quite surprised to hear the assertion that Japan is one of the most underdeveloped states when it comes to the development of democracy and healthy journalism in the … [Read more...] about -Why Japan Remains a Threat to Peace and Democracy in Asia
-Targeting North Korea
By Gregory Elich(Note: This is an updated version of an article that originally ran on ZNet a couple of months ago.)For all the ballyhoo surrounding the North Korean admission of a nuclear weapons program in meetings with U.S. officials, one salient fact has been overlooked. It never happened. Western news reports repeated endlessly the claims that North Korean officials … [Read more...] about -Targeting North Korea