It's not been widely noticed (at least not to the extent of having been named) that the internet is evolving as a new media. Some do call themselves "alternative." But I've settled on "civic media" for the moment, including both the internet and community access cable.
The format information clearing house is using strikes me as clear and direct. See what you think.
Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents Identified
By ELAINE SCIOLINO and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Italy's spymaster identified an Italian occasional spy named Rocco Martino
on Thursday as the disseminator of forged documents that described efforts
by Iraq to buy uranium ore from Niger for a nuclear weapons program, three
lawmakers said Thursday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10875.htm
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First casualty of war
By Eric Alterman
We know now, thanks to one brave and dogged historian at the National
Security Agency, that after the famed Gulf of Tonkin "incident" on Aug. 4,
1964 ? in which North Vietnam allegedly attacked two American destroyers ?
National Security Council officials doctored the evidence to support
President Johnson's false charge in a speech to the nation that night of
"open aggression on the high seas against the United States of America."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10877.htm
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Former Powell aide links Cheney's office to abuse directives
By Agence France-Presse
Vice President Dick Cheney's office was responsible for directives that led
to U.S. soldiers' abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former top
State Department official said Thursday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10879.htm
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All Problems Bleed from Americaıs Wound
By Brian Bogart
Making and selling weapons has been Americaıs top industry since 1950, that
we have sustained this weapons-based economy by supplying more than 200 wars
in 55 years, and that some 310,000 companies and 400 colleges are on the
Pentagonıs ever expanding payroll.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10882.htm
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11 Members Of Iraq's Security Forces Among 18 Killed In Continuing Violence:
Gunmen armed with assault rifles and heavier weaponry killed at least six
Iraqi policemen and wounded 10 in an attack on a checkpoint near Buhriz,
north of Baghdad, police said. One officer put the toll at nine dead and 12
wounded
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04773653.htm
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Gunmen kill former colonel in the Iraqi air force:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3438383
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General calls use of 152nd 'inexcusable' :
"Three years in . . . it's inexcusable to have brought a maintenance
company over there to do anything but maintenance," Libby said. "It's
particularly galling to me when I strip myself of full-time mechanics and
they get there and they're in a tower."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/051104general.shtml
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Marine tells of 'carte blanche' to kill:
A former US marine has told a jury that he was given "carte blanche" to kill
and was told to "shoot first and ask questions later" while serving in Iraq
following the outbreak of war in 2003.
http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=186151705&p=y86y5z5zx&n=186152591
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Should the U.S. Withdraw? Let the Iraqi People Decide :
Polls, so far, show Iraqis want the US out
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_abigail__051013_should_the_u_s__with
.htm
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Why Britain should withdraw from Iraq:
British troops face the real possibility of being embroiled in a dangerous
counter-insurgency war which they cannot win and which could overturn the
real achievements the British can claim up to now.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10874.htm
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Why the US will lose:
People around the world who care for justice and hope for a more human and
humane world, should support the Iraqis in their struggle to recover their
sovereignty, and ask for the complete and unconditional withdrawal of all
foreign troops from Iraqi soil along with compensation paid for all the
material and human losses Iraq has experienced since the illegal invasion
began.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10876.htm
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New Poll: Majority of Americans Support Impeachment:
By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush
if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/4421
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Breaking tradition, Carter rips Bush's policies:
He said Bush has made such significant changes to U.S. foreign policy and
human rights doctrine, resulting in precipitous declines in the country's
standing abroad, that he felt compelled to write "Our Endangered Values." It
is Carter's 20th book since he was defeated for re-election by Ronald Reagan
in 1980.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-03-carter-bush_x.htm
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House blocks Democrats' resolution on Iraq war:
''I think it brings shame to the House for this Congress to be engaged in a
coverup when it comes to revealing what's happening in Iraq," Pelosi said.
http://tinyurl.com/b8caw
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Italians say spy chief disputes role in Iraq uranium document:
Commission member Sen. Massimo Brutti told reporters after the closed-door
session that the commission was told that the Italian secret services warned
the United States in January 2003 that the dossier was fake. But later, the
senator called The Associated Press to retract that statement.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/nationworld/articles/1834421.html
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Israeli / AIPAC spy trial could expose ways information is gathered in D.C.:
Itıs a classified leak case that could rattle U.S. foreign policy and
fundamentally alter how Washington does business. But while the world
watches the implosion in the vice presidentıs office, this case is
proceeding quietly across the Potomac. Motions filed in recent weeks in the
case against two former senior staffers of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee have gone virtually unnoticed in the mainstream media
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10878.htm
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Israel and the Neocons: The Libby Affair and the Internal War:
Libby was a student, protégé, and collaborator with Paul Wolfowitz for over
25 years. Libby along with Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, Douglas Feith, Kagan,
Cohen, Rubin, Pollack, Chertoff, Fleisher, Kristol, Marc Grossman, Shumsky
and a host of other political
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10884.htm
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Smearing Fitzgerald
The neocons' defense: it isn't perjury, it's a pogrom
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7908
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John W. Dean: A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse?:
Having read the indictment against Libby, I am inclined to believe more will
be issued. In fact, I will be stunned if no one else is indicted.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20051104.html
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Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences :
Two Lib Dem MPs missed the vote, which the government won with a majority of
just one, but the party insisted a government defeat would only have been a
"technical knockout".
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,15935,1614944,00.html
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Varieties of Imperial Aggression: Recently, two foreign courts issued
warrants for the arrest of US government personnel protected, in common with
terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles, by the US authorities.
In case you missed it:
Brian Bogart : History of the U.S. War Machine:
>From NSC 68 to 2005: NSC68 was not a document specifically written to take
or keep power from America's common people; the people have been isolated
from power throughout our history. But NSC68 was the blueprint for shifting
from social concerns to military-industrial profit, further elevating
corporations to -- and further distancing the people from -- power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10883.htm
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Palestinians hit by sonic boom air raids :
Israel is deploying a terrifying new tactic against Palestinian civilians in
the Gaza Strip by letting loose deafening "sound bombs" that cause
widespread fear, induce miscarriages and traumatise children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1607450,00.html
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The night our hope for peace died :
Ten years ago today, Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot dead as
he sought to bring peace to the Middle East. The acclaimed novelist David
Grossman - who was among the crowds that witnessed the assassination -
recalls a time of chaos, confusion and despair
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1627453,00.html
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Pressure on allies over CIA's 'al-Qaida camps' :
Pressure was growing on the US and its new allies in eastern Europe last
night amid allegations that the CIA has been interrogating al-Qaida suspects
at former Soviet camps in Poland and Romania.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1627414,00.html
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Irish leaderıs arrest provokes outcry :
Critics say that this amounts to kidnapping, and is a violation of Garlandıs
rights as an Irish citizen and a violation of Irelandıs right to
self-determination.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/8052/1/293
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Britain isolated over role in Afghanistan :
Britain is locked in an intense dispute with its European allies in Nato
over a plan, fraught with political and security problems, to take control
of peacekeeping in Afghanistan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1627502,00.html
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U.S. Has Plan For Military Conflict With Venezuela:
Venezuela possesses everything that makes it "strategically" important: it
has oil; it is leftist; it is critical of the United States
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10881.htm
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Bush Pushes Free Trade at Summit as Protesters, Chavez Object :
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Bush's chief antagonist in Latin America,
told reporters the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Area of the Americas is
``dead.'' Chavez said he came ``to bury'' the trade pact.
http://tinyurl.com/8qmc5
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Thousands Protest Bush in Argentina, People's Summit Counters Free Trade
Talks:
Protests began in Argentina three days before Bushıs arrival and a massive
security clampdown is in place for the talks. More than 7,500 police
officers erected a security ring around summit hotels and patrolled the
streets and beaches. Coast guard boats watched the shoreline and air space
was restricted. Most schools canceled classes
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/04/1532200
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Hunger In America Rises By 43 Percent Over Last Five Years:
The analysis, completed by the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis
University, shows that more than 7 million people have joined the ranks of
the hungry since 1999.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051029093925.htm
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America's Poor are Under Siege
? $9.5 billion in Medicaid CUT. ? $5 Billion in Child Support Enforcement
GONE. ? $844 Million in food stamps ELIMINATED. Do we even need to
explain the implications here?
http://tinyurl.com/d3xaf
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Fox News Paid for DeLay's Travel: Rep.
Tom DeLay (R-TX) "filed a report with the Clerk of the House of
Representatives indicating he received free travel valued at $13,998.55 from
Fox News Sunday for 'officially connected travel' on October 1-2, 2005
http://tinyurl.com/a3ot7
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DeLay Asked Abramoff for Funds Through Foundation, E-mails Show
U.S. Representative Tom DeLay asked Jack Abramoff to raise money for him
through an Abramoff foundation, the latest evidence of the ties between
DeLay and the indicted lobbyist, e-mails released by a Senate committee
show.
http://tinyurl.com/b4k6w
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Report says 2 million may die in U.S. flu pandemic:
The report projects that a global outbreak would kill 209,000 to 1.9 million
people in the U.S. Such a crisis could overwhelm hospitals with patients,
forcing communities to set up overflow sites in school gymnasiums, armories
or convention centers, according to the plan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10880.htm
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Power source that turns physics on its head :
It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that
costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces
next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the
principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html
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GOP mulls ending birthright citizenship:
House Republicans are looking closely at ending birthright citizenship and
building a barrier along the entire U.S.-Mexico border as they search for
solutions to illegal immigration.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051103-115741-1048r.htm
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