[Media-watch] Manufacturing Bugbears

[antony_wright at blueyonder.co.uk]

Instantly, instinctively, and unrelentingly, the American establishment has framed the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the language of a clash of civilisations. Islamic terrorists attacked America because they hate our highest values, our freedoms, our way of life—our civilisation.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1429


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Bush: It's About Me and My Crusade
It's official: the 2004 campaign is a referendum on whether the United States should wage a crusade to bring liberty to the repressed of the world--particularly in the Middle East--in order to heed the call of God and to protect the United States from terrorists who target America because they despise freedom. Or, at least, that is how George W. Bush would like the contest to be framed.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1443

Trading Away Ghana's Water, With No Benefit to Citizens
Should your supply of drinking water be controlled locally, or by absentee landlords? Water is a precious natural resource, part of the common heritage of all humanity. But artificial situations can endanger the rights of individuals.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1442

Bush Wants To Put YOU In Charge
The theme of the Bush administrations is and has always been a platform of ''individual responsibilty'', of giving us back the ''privilege'' of choice, (that is unless we are women and desire to exercize the choice of whether to bear children). Let's look at all the areas in which he wants to return "power to the people" and translate them into the end result of his suggestions.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1438

A Clear Message From George Bush
You have to give credit to the Bush administration. Their message is clear. People not only understand it they, believe it. The only problem is it is completely untrue.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1437

Governments should be held accountable by Muslims
It is a sad and unfortunate part of the human nature, that when oppressed by others, we appeal to humanity and justice, and fight against the oppression, as we should. Once we get the upper hand we turn around and inflict similar atrocities on others. All ethnic groups, religions and societies have been guilty of this evil.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1436

Partisan protests: not all of New York rises up
They know that regardless of who wins in November, their struggles will surely continue: Finding adequate work. Food for their hungry children. Health care that doesn’t put them in the poor house. A solid education that leads to opportunities for their precious kids. And the list goes on.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1435

Kerry Hobbled by Iraq Record
As George W. Bush prepares to formally accept the presidential nomination from his Republican Party in New York City while protesters gather outside a midtown arena, it seems that the polarization of politics in the United States is hitting its zenith.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1434

Musharraf imposes former Citibank official as Pakistan’s prime minister
Pakistan’s US-backed military strongman, president and armed forces chief Pervez Musharraf, has orchestrated the installation of Shaukat Aziz, a former top official at New York’s Citibank, as the country’s prime minister.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1433

US judge throws out Detroit terrorist “sleeper cell” convictions
A US federal judge on Thursday threw out the June 2003 convictions of three Detroit-area men accused of being members of a terrorist “sleeper operational combat cell.”
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1432

Where were the Democrats on August 29?
The anti-Bush demonstration held in New York City August 29 was the largest outpouring of public opposition to the war in Iraq since Bush ordered the invasion and conquest of that tortured country nearly 18 months ago.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1431

London Conference Backs Abortion
The London conference on reproductive health concluded Thursday with a resolution backing the right to abortion.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1430

The Girlie Men are going to let the Chicken Hawks win.
The power and influence of US society and government ensures we are all Americans now; we just don’t get to vote. We, the disenfranchised constituency, are left hanging on to every word in this presidential campaign but remain impotent on its course and fearful of its outcome.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1418

Bush, the working class hero
Thomas Frank on the extraordinary story of how poor Americans were persuaded to vote for right-wing conservatives, in defiance of their own economic interests
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=1384

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