Tag: war
member name: Rory O'Connor
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December 07, 2009 03:14 PM EST --
In my last post on President Obama’s Afghan escalation speech I noted,
“Anyone who believes (the troops) will leave in eighteen months is a fool.” I also referenced “a . . .
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February 06, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
Remember way back in 2004— those halcyon days before thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars were poured down the ruinous . . .
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September 20, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter – and a lasting lesson -- from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:38 AM EST --
When it comes to the media and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – as in many things – John Lennon put it best :
“I’m sick and tired of hearing things/From . . .
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January 25, 2007 09:51 AM EST --
Sometimes it’s hard to swim in the mainstream.
There has been much heated debate over the past few years over media coverage of the Iraq War. The Bush administration has repeatedly attacked the . . .
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March 08, 2007 10:21 AM EST --
’It was said a number of times, what are we doing with this guy here?” Denis Collins recalled his fellow jurors asking, as he spoke to the press immediately following the pronouncement that . . .
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April 21, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
"If your readers would take a few seconds to consider the things they enjoy by virtue of being in this country, the depth of their anger would dissipate," says John Moody. "We're not . . .
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May 12, 2009 05:54 PM EDT --
What is it about torture that is so seductive to our mainstream media?
First, our leading (and often “liberal”) commentators and analysts, writing in supposedly respectable publications such as Newsweek . . .
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April 02, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
Imagine making a multi-hour, nationally broadcast series for public television about baseball – but never mentioning Roberto Clemente. Or a multi-hour, nationally broadcast series for public television . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
As the war in Iraq marked its fifth anniversary, thirteen Iraqis were killed as dozens of mortar shells were fired at the "heavily fortified Green Zone" in what the New York Times called "one . . .
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October 21, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
In the fall of 2002 --- little more than a year after the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States set off a chain of events that soon toppled the brutal, misogynistic Taliban regime in Kabul, and . . .
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April 29, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
Ever wake up in a funk, just spoiling for a fight?
Me too – and when I do (despite my best Buddhist intentions) I invariably reach for the New York Times and turn to the latest column by Tom Friedman, . . .
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April 04, 2006 11:29 AM EDT --
You're abducted at gunpoint from a Baghdad street… your friend and translator is killed before your eyes… you're held hostage in isolation for 82 days in rooms where you can't even . . .
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May 18, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
Introduction:
On October 12, 2000, the guided missile destroyer USS Cole pulled into harbor for refueling in Aden, Yemen. Less than two hours later, suicide bombers Ibrahim al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa . . .
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September 12, 2006 03:28 PM EDT --
Now that all the books have been published and promoted… And the Hollywood films have all opened – and closed… And all the radio and television commentaries and commemorative specials . . .
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May 08, 2006 01:12 PM EDT --
Inquiring minds want to know - and so they should, by the end of this month, as complex pre-trial legal maneuvering in the perjury and obstruction of justice case against former White House official I. . . .
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August 16, 2006 09:53 AM EDT --
Wherever you are, death will find you/even in the looming tower."
--The Holy Q'ran
Was 9/11 preventable? Add New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and . . .
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April 18, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
20 Questions for Fox News
This is the second in a series of interviews with leading American newsmakers. As with the recent interview with CNN/US head Jonathan Klein,(see www.roryoconnor.org)many of . . .
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June 05, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
With Washington's attention focused on the murky fate of top White House official Karl Rove, one surprising and potentially significant development in the ongoing CIA leak case against top White House . . .
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April 06, 2006 04:29 PM EDT --
It's good news, bad news time again.
By now the pattern is blatantly obvious: as the war in Iraq worsens, so too does the war on journalists. While still clinging to the tired canard that most reporters . . .
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