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>THIS WEEK'S NEWS
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>1. Hot Summer Reading: Banana Republicans
>2. Have a Gram, Don't Give a Damn!
>3. Getting Out the Vote, Religiously
>4. PR Meltdown
>5. Reagan and the Cold War: Myth vs. Reality
>6. 'Good' War Versus 'Bad' War
>7. Democracy Is Gr8!
>8. What the World Needs Now
>9. Art Imitates Life Sciences
>10. Irrelevant No Longer?
>11. Big Money, Bad Medicine
>12. Freedom Fries, Hold the Freedom
>13. Sweet Smelling Ash
>14. Super Surprise Me
>15. The Terminator, The Gipper and the Banana Republicans
>16. A Beef with Human Rights
>17. The March of Whose Freedom?
>18. Rotten to the DynCorp
>19. A Big, Right-Wing Bird?
>20. The Difference Between Terrorists and Wedding Guests
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>1. HOT SUMMER READING: BANANA REPUBLICANS
>http://www.bananarepublicans.org/
> Guess what we recommend for your summer reading? No surprise, it's
> Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America into a
> One-Party State, by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of our staff.
> As with all of Rampton & Stauber's books for the Center for Media
> and Democracy, 100% of the royalties benefit our work. If you
> attend our organization's tenth anniversary bash on June 18th in
> Madison , you can have Banana Republicans autographed for you by
> the authors. Sheldon Rampton is currently speaking on a book tour
> in Britain, Ireland and Scotland but he promises to return for our
> June 18th celebration. We're very excited that Amy Goodman of
> Democracy Now! will be our special guest speaker on June 18th.
>SOURCE: Wednesday, June 9, 2004
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>2. HAVE A GRAM, DON'T GIVE A DAMN!
>http://thehill.com/business/060804_depression.aspx
> "The leading drug-industry trade group and the U.S. Chamber of
> Commerce are working ... to demonstrate the cost of depression in
> the workplace and to show employers that treating affected workers
> would improve the bottom line," reports The Hill. The American
> Psychiatric Association, Chamber and Pharmaceutical Research and
> Manufacturers of America endorsed a "depression calculator," which
> allows employers to estimate the effect of untreated depression on
> their company's profits, through absenteeism and low productivity.
> The calculator also figures "how much the business would save if
> employees were treated." However, the Chamber opposes
> mental-health-parity legislation that would ensure equal mental
> health and substance abuse healthcare coverage; their healthcare
> policy director explained, "employers do not often get a
> bottom-line return regarding employee benefits ... treating
> depression is an exception."
>SOURCE: The Hill, June 8, 2004
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>3. GETTING OUT THE VOTE, RELIGIOUSLY
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/politics/08church.html
> House Republicans "quietly introduced a measure to make it easier
> for churches to support political candidates, just days after the
> Bush campaign ... [invited] church members to distribute campaign
> information at their houses of worship," reports the New York
> Times. "'Safe Harbor for Churches' ... would allow religious
> organizations a limited number of violations of the existing rules
> against political endorsements without jeopardizing their
> tax-exempt status." Americans United for Separation of Church and
> State's director, Reverend Barry Lynn, said the election year
> timing "reeks to high heaven, literally." Bush campaign
> spokesperson Steve Schmidt replied, "The campaign wants people of
> faith to participate in the political process." On Tuesday, a state
> campaign coordinator emailed religious contacts, writing, "The
> Bush-Cheney '04 national headquarters ... has asked us to identify
> 1,600 'Friendly Congregations' in Pennsylvania."
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 8, 2004
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>4. PR MELTDOWN
>http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1086445494365
> As part of its restructuring, the debt-laden nuclear power
> generator British Energy hired American Roy Anderson as its chief
> nuclear officer, created a new technical director position, and
> switched PR firms. Anderson, who's currently president of New
> Jersey-based PSEG Nuclear, was welcomed by British Energy as
> someone with "significant experience of nuclear turnarounds." In
> April, British Energy ended its 14-year contract with PR giant Hill
> & Knowlton and began discussions with Bell Pottinger Public
> Affairs. However, upon discovering that Bell Pottinger director
> Neil Stockley had signed "anti-nuclear policy papers when he was
> director of policy for the Liberal Democrats in the 1990s," British
> Energy ended talks with the firm at the "eleventh hour" and started
> looking for alternatives, to "promote nuclear energy's green
> credentials."
>SOURCE: Financial Times (UK), June 8, 2004
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>5. REAGAN AND THE COLD WAR: MYTH VS. REALITY
>http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/060704.html
> Investigative journalist Robert Parry writes that "the U.S. news
> media's reaction to Ronald Reagan's death is putting on display
> what has happened to American public debate in the years since
> Reagan's political rise in the late 1970s: a near-total collapse of
> serious analytical thinking at the national level. Across the U.S.
> television dial and in major American newspapers, the commentary is
> fawning almost in a Pravda-like way, far beyond the normal
> reticence against speaking ill of the dead. ... Yet absent from the
> media commentary was the one fundamental debate that must be held
> before any reasonable assessment can be made of Ronald Reagan and
> his Presidency: How, why and when was the Cold War 'won?' " Author
> William Blum writes that Reagan's "ultra-tough, anti-communist"
> policies prolonged the Cold War, resulting in "pervasive suspicion,
> cynicism and hostility on both sides."
>SOURCE: Consortium News, June 7, 2004
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> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086621365
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>6. 'GOOD' WAR VERSUS 'BAD' WAR
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/politics/07letter.html
> The 60th anniversary of D-Day was a major production, but most
> previous anniversaries weren't. "A chronicle of each decade's
> commemoration of Normandy shows how the passage of time has
> softened the pain of the experience, and how the modern American
> presidency has evolved into a giant stage production to promote
> political goals," reports the New York Times. Boston University
> history professor Bruce Schulman said recent "American presidents
> have seized on World War II because it has this resonance of a
> heroic struggle free of the ambiguities of later wars." Historian
> David Kennedy said this year's anniversary illustrated "how much
> Americans long for moral clarity." French President Jacques
> Chirac's D-Day message was clear - the Allies fought "in defense of
> ... a certain vision ... that lies at the heart of the United
> Nations charter."
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 7, 2004
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>7. DEMOCRACY IS GR8!
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/international/middleeast/06DIPL.html
> Bush administration plans for "the world's wealthiest nations to
> declare their support for democracy in the Middle East" at the G8
> Summit this week are backfiring. The declaration "has strained
> relations with several important allies in the Arab world,"
> including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, Egypt and Pakistan. The
> declaration's original name, "Greater Middle East Initiative," was
> changed to "Broader Middle East and North African Initiative," in
> response to concerns that "greater" suggests "imperial ambitions."
> Besides the declaration controversy, "this is not the time to be
> seen with the American president," explained one Arab diplomat.
> Missing from the list of invited Arab countries was Qatar, snubbed
> because it hosts the Al Jazeera network. "It's strange, having a
> summit declaration on democratic reforms and not inviting a country
> because it has a free press," remarked another diplomat.
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 6, 2004
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>8. WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
>http://www.pipa.org/
> Sixty percent of the nearly 19,000 people in 19 nations surveyed by
> the Program on International Policy Attitudes agreed: "The world is
> not going in the right direction." This view was strongly linked to
> the opinion, held by 55 percent of respondents, that "the United
> States is not having a positive influence in the world." A majority
> of poll participants "does not think that rich countries are
> playing fair in trade negotiations with poor countries"; believes
> "rich countries have a moral responsibility to help poor countries
> develop"; and trusts the United Nations to "operate in the best
> interests" of their society. PIPA is a joint program of the
> University of Maryland's Center on Policy Attitudes and Center for
> International and Security Studies.
>SOURCE: Program on International Policy Attitudes, June 4, 2004
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>9. ART IMITATES LIFE SCIENCES
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/03/national1616EDT0719.DTL&type=health
> "I feel sorry for Steve Kurtz because he lost his wife ... and he
> didn't even have time to grieve," said art professor Beatriz da
> Costa. Kurtz is part of the Critical Art Ensemble, an acclaimed
> group "dedicated to exploring the intersections between art,
> technology, radical politics and critical theory." Following
> Kurtz's wife's sudden death, police found "biological materials" at
> their home and involved the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Kurtz's art
> uses plants, bacterial cultures and lab equipment. Adele Henderson,
> a colleague at the University of Buffalo, called the ongoing FBI
> investigation "a total paranoid overreaction." Another friend
> commented, "There is no legal way to stop huge corporations from
> putting genetically altered material in our food, yet owning the
> equipment required to test for the presence of 'Frankenfood' will
> get you accused of 'terrorism.'"
>SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 2004
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>10. IRRELEVANT NO LONGER?
>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5348071
> The U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq "might be designated as war
> crimes by a competent tribunal," warned acting United Nations High
> Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan. In a Human Rights
> Commission report, Ramcharan urged that "protection arrangements be
> strengthened" by appointing an independent human rights monitor in
> Iraq "immediately." The report also calls Saddam Hussein's ouster
> "a major contribution to human rights" and acknowledged "the good
> intentions of the Coalition governments." UN envoy to Iraq Lakhdar
> Brahimi didn't feel so generous, when he responded to a question
> about the U.S. role in forming the Iraqi interim government.
> Brahimi said U.S. Ambassador Paul Bremer "is the dictator of Iraq.
> ... I will remind you that the Americans are governing this
> country."
>SOURCE: Reuters, June 4, 2004
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>
>11. BIG MONEY, BAD MEDICINE
>http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108630647391928651,00.html?mod=health%5Fhs%5Fresearch%5Fscience
> "It's been pretty well established that publication bias is
> associated with industry funding," says Brown University
> epidemiologist Kay Dickersin, about drug companies squashing
> unfavorable research results. Yet the "overwhelming majority" of
> drug researchers receive industry funding, according to Canadian
> clinical pharmacist Muhammad Mamdani. The drug industry trade group
> PhRMA agreed in 2002 to voluntary rules in which companies promise
> they "will not suppress or veto publications." New York Attorney
> General Eliot Spitzer thinks those rules aren't working; he filed a
> lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline charging that the company sought to
> "manage the dissemination of data" on the potential hazards of
> prescribing the antidepressant Paxil to children. GlaxoSmithKline
> contends it has "acted responsibly."
>SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2004
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>12. FREEDOM FRIES, HOLD THE FREEDOM
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3773545.stm
> The U.S. State Department is warning Americans in Italy that "not
> all demonstrations" planned during George Bush's visit this weekend
> "are expected to be peaceful." Italian peace groups are organizing
> several demonstrations; one Rome-based activist explained: "We are
> going to disrupt this visit ... because this city rejected the war
> ... and [we] cannot do anything but to refuse this war's leader."
> French activists will not have the same opportunity. The Financial
> Times reports: "Demonstrations have been banned in central Paris
> throughout this week to ensure no hostile protests" disturb Bush's
> Saturday visit, when "he will be dining with President Jacques
> Chirac." The ban "underscores Mr. Chirac's determination ... to
> improve the chilly state of Franco-American relations."
>SOURCE: BBC, June 3, 2004
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> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086235201
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>13. SWEET SMELLING ASH
>http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=527695
> British American Tobacco is carrying out animal tests on chocolate,
> wine, sherry, cocoa, corn syrup, cherry juice, maple syrup and
> vanilla-flavored tobacco. Former British health secretary Frank
> Dobson remarked, "We all know that hardly anyone takes up smoking
> when they are grown up. That is why the tobacco industry wants to
> target children [with flavored tobacco]." Flavored cigarettes,
> which were first sold by R.J. Reynolds in 1999, are facing mounting
> criticism in America. Harvard School of Public Health instructor
> Greg Connolly said, "By masking the natural toxic products of smoke
> with these candy flavors, they're basically trying to turn a blow
> torch into rice pudding." Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor and
> tobacco executive John Hager has been nominated as assistant
> secretary of education for special education and rehabilitation
> services.
>SOURCE: Independent (UK), June 3, 2004
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> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086235200
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>
>14. SUPER SURPRISE ME
>http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/512/512414p1.html?fromint=1
> IGN FilmForce, a movie review website, took a look at the PR battle
> against Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock's documentary about the 30
> days he spent eating nothing but meals from McDonald's. "Over the
> course of three days this week, IGN FilmForce came across three
> separate press releases, from three different organizations, all
> extolling the 'truth' about how the new documentary film Super Size
> Me distorts the fact," they report. " You may have seen media
> coverage taken straight from these press releases in the past few
> days n on TV, in print or on the Internet. We thought it would be
> interesting to take a look at the groups behind this press blitz
> against a limited-release documentary film." Surprise, surprise,
> they're all industry front groups.
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086184585
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>15. THE TERMINATOR, THE GIPPER AND THE BANANA REPUBLICANS
>http://www.counterpunch.org/stauber05272004.html
> "Acting has been a stepping-stone to political careers for numerous
> Republicans. In addition to Arnold Schwarzenegger examples include
> Ronald Reagan the former governor of California and two-term
> president of the United States. There are several reasons for this
> disparity. One is that the Republican Party has actively recruited
> and supported candidates from the entertainment world. Another is
> that Republicans often run as 'anti-government' or 'non-politician'
> candidates, so that an actor's lack of political experience can
> actually be an advantage for his campaign. And although Bill
> Clinton was clearly a master of showmanship, for the most part
> Republicans have shown greater mastery of the rules of postmodern
> politics, in which style is as important as substance and issues
> are less important than personality. Republican candidates
> understand these unwritten rules because they and their campaign
> consultants, some of whom actually started in the entertainment
> industry, played a big part in inventing them."
>SOURCE: Excerpt from the book "Banana Republicans," June 2, 2004
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>16. A BEEF WITH HUMAN RIGHTS
>http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040602/1/3krr9.html
> In a move Australia's foreign minister decried as "outrageous and
> indefensible, utterly at odds with ... an open and democratic
> society," an American human rights monitor has been ordered to
> leave Indonesia. The International Crisis Group's Sidney Jones said
> her "immediate expulsion order" was arranged by the Indonesian
> intelligence agency, whose director called her work "subversive."
> Indonesia's intelligence director accused 19 other non-governmental
> groups of "endangering national security before the July 5
> presidential election." But Indonesia does want U.S. beef. The
> country "cited a determination last week" by the international
> animal health organization "that the U.S. was now considered to be
> [mad cow disease]-free," and became "one of the first countries
> besides Mexico and Canada to resume their imports of U.S. beef,"
> according to AgWeb.
>SOURCE: Agence France-Presse, June 2, 2004
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>17. THE MARCH OF WHOSE FREEDOM?
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20040602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq
> At the U.S. Air Force Academy's graduation, George Bush compared
> the "War on Terror" to World War II, saying, "We will secure our
> nation and defend the peace through the march of freedom. ... Just
> as events in Europe determined the outcome of the Cold War, events
> in the Middle East will set the course of our current struggle."
> Officials in France, where Bush will mark the anniversary of D-Day,
> warned,"Any reference to Iraq during the 60th anniversary of the
> Allied invasion of France on Sunday would be ill-advised and
> unwelcome." A "source close to President Chirac" quoted by the
> Guardian said "photographs of U.S. soldiers torturing" Iraqi
> detainees did not compare favorably "with the image of D-Day
> heroes."
>SOURCE: Associated Press, June 2, 2004
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>18. ROTTEN TO THE DYNCORP
>http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8816810.htm
> In Iraq, private military contractors "are protecting key leaders,
> escorting convoys, guarding military installations or oil
> pipelines, training Iraqi forces, interrogating prisoners ... some
> have become entangled in firefights," reports Contra Costa Times.
> "The potential role of contractors in the Abu Ghraib prison
> scandal, and the legal obstacles to prosecuting them for reported
> abuses ... have raised sharp concerns." DynCorp, whose employees
> "escaped prosecution despite accusations in 2000 of running a
> prostitution ring in the Balkans," had eight armed men at the
> recent raid of Ahmed Chalabi's home and offices. The DynCorp
> employees were "directing and encouraging" the raid, and some
> "helped themselves to baklava, apples and diet soda from Chalabi's
> refrigerator," according to witnesses.
>SOURCE: Contra Costa Times, June 2, 2004
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>19. A BIG, RIGHT-WING BIRD?
>http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18831
> The Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded two new
> right-leaning shows - "one hosted by Tucker Carlson, who speaks for
> conservatives on CNN's 'Crossfire'" and "one moderated by Paul
> Gigot, editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal" - while
> cutting "NOW with Bill Moyers" from an hour to 30 minutes. Moyers
> responsed, "CPB has ordered up programs for ideological instead of
> journalistic reasons." Common Cause president Chellie Pingree
> writes, "CPB board members tend to be big political donors who
> often come with specific ideological agendas." Regarding Lynne
> Cheney's suggestion "to the head of PBS that ... TV programs
> starring herself might be a jolly good idea," Laura Flanders
> suggests an adaptation of Sisters, a 1981 novel Cheney wrote, "full
> of sex and romance and condoms and lesbian lust in the 19th Century
> American West."
>SOURCE: AlterNet, June 1, 2004
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> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086062405
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>20. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TERRORISTS AND WEDDING GUESTS
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6394-2004Jun1
> "What exactly did U.S. military aircraft attack in the western
> Iraqi desert in the early morning of May 19, 2004?" asks Jefferson
> Morley. "If you read the U.S. press, that question is the subject
> of legitimate dispute and official investigation. If you read the
> overseas online media, you will find little doubt that the U.S.
> forces, deliberately or accidentally, perpetrated a 'massacre' near
> the village of Qaim that killed up to 45 people, including many
> women and children. The difference in coverage of the May 19 attack
> illuminates a key difference in the way news organizations reach
> definitive judgments on matters of fact. U.S.-based news
> organizations, much more than their overseas counterparts, are
> willing to take statements from U.S. officials at face value.
> Overseas journalists are more likely to put faith in the accounts
> of Iraqi eyewitnesses and local officials."
>SOURCE: Washington Post, June 1, 2004
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