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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5"><U>Dateline Baghdad</U></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> <BR>
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Robert Fisk reports from a besieged city<BR>
</B>Whose missile was it that blew up innocent women and children in a Baghdad market? Not sure, we're still investigating, say Washington and London. What about the fragment I'm holding with the serial numbers on it? asks Fisk, of London's Independent newspaper. Read the articles that caused a storm in Britain's Parliament . . .<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5"><B><U>Critical Mass</U></B></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> <BR>
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NEW / Antonia Zerbisias's penetratig analysis of media performance<BR>
</B>Antonia Zerbisias is Canada's most respected media critic. This week she looks at raging neo-con media pundits, Peter Arnett's sacking, exposes the lies of the White House hawks . . . and more., <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5"><B><U>London Calling</U></B></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> <BR>
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George Monbiot: This war will end in disaster<BR>
"</B>So far, the liberators have succeeded only in freeing the souls of the Iraqis from their bodies. Saddam Husseinıs troops have proved less inclined to surrender than they had anticipated, and the civilians less prepared to revolt. But while no one can now ignore the immediate problems this illegal war has met, we are beginning, too, to understand what should have been obvious all along: that, however this conflict is resolved, the outcome will be a disaster. "<BR>
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Read Monbiot's columns from The Guardian newspaper at <FONT COLOR="#0000FF">http://www.coldtype.net/London.html<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><U>Getting A Grip<BR>
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</B></U><B>Michael I. Niman: Spinning the war - lessons in propaganda<BR>
"</B>Have you noticed that the recent pro-war demonstrations seem to have a cookie-cutter feel to them? The same plastic signs with the same slogans. The same droning ³Ooo Esss Ay² chants repeated ad nausea to the same frat boy tune of ³drink, drink, drink.² During the last month these loud little gatherings have been popping up around the country like zits on a boy scout. Their eerie similarity, however, is not by chance. According to The New York Times, most of these outbursts of bloodlust have been organized nationally by the same group not a political organization per se, but the nationıs largest owner of radio stations Clear Channel Communications Corporation."<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><U>MediaBeat<BR>
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</B></U><B>Norman Solomon: The thick fog of war on America's television<BR>
"M</B>inutes after the dawn spread daylight across the Iraqi desert, ³embedded² CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers was on the air with a live report. Another employee at the network, former U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark on the job in a TV studio back home asked his colleague a question. When Rodgers responded, he addressed Clark as ³general² and ³sir.² The only thing missing was a salute.That deferential tone pretty much sums up the overall relationship between American journalists and the U.S. military on major TV networks. Correspondents in the field have bonded with troops to the point that their language and enunciated outlooks are often indistinguishable."<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><H1>COMING NEXT WEEK<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><U>John Pilger<BR>
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</U></H2></FONT><B>Look out for ColdType's latest signing Britain's most famous investigative reporter and fierce critic of US and British foreign policy.</B> <BR>
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