Current Events

The Current Events section will feature mostly news stories relating to the Media.

There will be items about the various cable news channels, the network news, radio and newspapers.

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Current Events Articles

The Pap Attack: Modern Day Robber Barons

Tag:Air America, corporate greed, Mike Papantonio

The Pap Attack: The New US Imperialism

Tag:Dick Cheney, imperialism, Iraq, Mike Papantonio, PNAC

Al Qaeda No. 2: Attacks on Western nations in works

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Al Qaeda still has plans to target Western countries involved in the Iraq war, Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy warns in an audiotape released Tuesday to answer questions posed by followers.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen in 2006, said in a recent tape that Iran and Hezbollah sought to discredit al Qaeda.
The […]

John Edwards Withdraws From The Race

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a
transcript of a speech by John Edwards:
Thank you all very much. We’re very proud to be back here.
During the spring of 2006, I had the extraordinary experience of bringing 700 college kids here to New Orleans to work. These are kids who gave up […]

Statement on the Death of Benazir Bhutto From Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich

MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich issued the following statement this morning after hearing the news of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto:
“This is a very dangerous moment for the world. Prime Minister Bhutto represented the forces of reform and the hope […]

New Intelligence Debunks Bush Arguments on Iran Threat, Calls Dem Presidential Candidates’ Judgment Into Question

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today’s report by U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran — contrary to previous claims — ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 “is proof positive that this pro-war administration has been manipulating intelligence and that the Presidential candidates’ all-options-are-on-the-table posture with respect to Iran reflects their inability to recognize when […]

Fox News Channel Rejects Danny Glover Guantanamo Ad

Center for Constitutional Rights’ Spot Using Metaphor to Explain
Erosion of Rights Gets Snubbed
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Fox News Channel has denied the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) the opportunity to advertise on the national news network. The ad, which features actor Danny Glover, shows a replica of […]

Raw Video: Rice Confronted by Protester

As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived to testify, a female p…

Comment: Nice try. But Condi does not give a damn about the blood that is on her hands.
Tag:anti war, Condi Rice, politics

Plame Wilson On ‘60 Minutes’

Harry Smith speaks with Katie Couric about her exclusive “60 Minu…

Tag:60 Minutes, CBS, CBS News, CIA, CIA Leak Scandal, Valerie Plame Wilson

Bill Moyers Journal Devotes Broadcast to ‘The Other Side of Blackwater’

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Hardly had Blackwater CEO Erik Prince completed a blitz of television interviews this week defending his private security firm when officials in Iraq said they wanted the company out of their country in the wake of the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians on September 16. Bill Moyers Journal, […]