My, someone is getting a little hysterical. Besides me, I mean.
I really thought I had posted my last post in this thread, but ok. Have to defend my honor, I guess.
Shouldn't have to say this, but no I was neither claiming nor suggesting that tubebuoy's story wasn't true.
Just recalling we've been lied to before. And no, I don't consider myself particularly well informed.
Most of the time I feel shamefully ignorant. That's why I come to good ol' B1, to learn from the smart folk.
Now..... remember Jack, you asked for this. You get one lesson plan for free.
My tongue is sore from biting it but I'm
not going to get personal.
JackDynne's Homework assignment for Sunday, Mar 23 :
(don't worry, it's pass/fail)
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In war, some facts less factual (overview)
_http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html
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GULF WAR 1
The 1991 Gulf War Rationale (good overview with reference links)
_http://www.swans.com/library/art8/ga138.html
U.S. Conspiracy to Initiate the War Against Iraq
_http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-consp.htm#one
How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf
_http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html
Did Saddam Gas His Own People?
_http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/warcrime.html
Hill & Knowlton - The Company That Brought You the Gulf War
_http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1992/50/50p24.htm
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NAYIRAH HOAX
How Bush Sr. Sold the Bombing of Iraq
_http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen1228.html
Gulf War Lesson Plan (see Activity 18)
http://www.globaled.org/curriculum/cm0.html
photos of Nayirah testimony (good photos, poor text)
_http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3589/us-iraq-lie.html
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OFFICE OF STRATEGIC INFLUENCE
NYTimes: Office of Strategic Influence story
_http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?pagewanted=print
Rendon Group / OSI
_http://www.bizforward.com/wdc/issues/2002-05/government/
OSI/OPD & PSYOPS
_http://www.fair.org/activism/osi-propaganda.html
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RENDON GROUP
PR Watch - Rendon Group
_http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/rendon.html
FAIR: Rendon Group in Afghanistan
_http://www.fair.org/media-beat/011025.html
Rendon Group and the INC (middle of page)
_http://www.ocnus.net/artman/publish/article_3194.shtml
Rendon & OSI / cash outlays
_http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5188
Rendon, OSI, etc. (a more benign view of propaganda)
_http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020520&s=foer052002
Rendon Group website
_http://www.rendon.com/rendon/layout7/wel.htm
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IRAQI NATIONAL CONGRESS (the new regime?)
Iraqi Opposition Groups
_http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/iraqiopposition.html
$8 Million US Grant to INC
_http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/14346.htm
INC politics
_http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020311fa_FACT
Chalabi interview
_http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/chalabi.html
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OFFICE OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY FOR LATIN AMERICA
Selling Iran-Contra
_http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost12.html
Otto Reich File
_http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/
Reich's rebuttal
_http://www.cnsnews.com/Politics/Archive/200202/POL20020204b.html
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SOME BOOKS
Robert Parry. Fooling America: How Washington Insiders Twist the Truth and
Manufacture the Conventional Wisdom, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992.
John R. MacArthur. Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War.
University of California Press, 1992.
W. Lance Bennett and David L. Paletz. Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion,
and US Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Parry, Robert. Lost History: Contras, Cocaine and Other Crimes. The Media Consortium;
Unabridged edition (July 1, 1999) ISBN: 1893517004
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