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Stories from 2004-01-22
John Nichols takes to task the recent decision to ban commercials from MoveOn.org, a major anti-war player, and PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, from the Super Bowl, claiming they are too controversial. This has generated a major call-in and e-mail campaign against CBS. Howard Kurtz, a media expert with the Washington Post, states shutting activists groups out from broadcasting rights is the rule rather than the exception. Nichols explores the relationship between CBS and the Administration at a bit more depth. [more]
" 'There appears to have been no hacking, no stealing, and no violation of any Senate rule,' Miranda said. 'Stealing assumes a property right and there is no property right to a government document ... These documents are not covered under the Senate disclosure rule because they are not official business and, to the extent they were disclosed, they were disclosed inadvertently by negligent [Democratic] staff.' " [more]
"Two days before he laces up his skates to take the ice with Boston Bruins legends this weekend, John Kerry today scored a 'hat trick' of endorsements from the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and Boston Phoenix." [more]
"A military defense lawyer for an Australian detainee expected to be the first man tried before a military tribunal denounced President Bush's rules for the special courts yesterday, saying they are skewed against defendants and could result in proceedings that resemble political trials in authoritarian Third World countries." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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