Pentagon, Pimps & Propaganda (continued) Pentagon, Pimps & Propaganda (continued)
A few weeks ago, I posted on New York Times reporter David Barstow's front-page story exposing the Pentagon's propaganda machine. Through rigorous documentation, Barstow reveale...
May 15, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Paraphrase This: How High Did This Scheme Go? Paraphrase This: How High Did This Scheme Go?
Yesterday morning, Burger King's Senior Analyst of Communications, Denise Wilson, sent me an e-mail saying that the company had "terminated two employees who participated in unaut...
May 14, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Invasions of Privacy Invasions of Privacy
Two weeks ago, I asked a Burger King spokeswoman whether the company had hired a private investigative firm to infiltrate the non-violent Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) or Coal...
May 11, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Newt Gingrich to GOP–Wake Up or Perish Newt Gingrich to GOP–Wake Up or Perish
In early 2007, The Nation published an extraordinary speech by Bill Moyers. In "A New Story for America," America's media conscience wrote of how "voters have provided a a respit...
May 8, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Young Voters Hold the Key Young Voters Hold the Key
With an unprecedented number of youth voters participating in the Democratic primary this season, Anna MartÃnez--the Democratic National Committee's Deputy Political Director for...
May 7, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Faith-Based Missile Defense Faith-Based Missile Defense
In an oversight hearing on the US missile defense program last month, Philip Coyle III, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in...
May 2, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Audacity of Our Gotcha Media The Audacity of Our Gotcha Media
As the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's eruptions filled the media, driving out issues of war and recession, skyrocketing gas prices and the global food crisis, I picked up a copy of Bar...
Apr 30, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Grilling Burger King Grilling Burger King
Last week I wrote about a Senate hearing on working conditions for tomato pickers inFlorida. Much of the discussion there revolved around the"penny-per-pound" deal, and the Flor...
Apr 23, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
NYT Investigation Exposes Pentagon Pimps & Propaganda Operation NYT Investigation Exposes Pentagon Pimps & Propaganda Operation
If you thought the US media had hit a new low with last week's ABC Debate Debacle, read Sunday's New York Times's 10,000 (plus) word cover story, "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon...
Apr 20, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Decoys, Countermeasures and Deception Decoys, Countermeasures and Deception
In Congress last week, Representative John Tierney, Chair of the House National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, convened the latter in a series of hearings to examine t...
Apr 20, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel