Does the Right-Wing
Want Never-Ending War?
By Joshua Holland
Beaver County Peace Links via AlterNet
August 24, 2010 - In a New York Times column titled “How Fox Betrayed Petraeus,” Frank Rich argues that the right-wing freak-out over the Islamic community center to be erected in downtown Manhattan hurts U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. “How do you win […]

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Drones and Democracy
By Kathy Kelly and Joshua Brollier Truthout Report
Islamabad - On May 12, the day after a US drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, two men from the […]

Right-Wingers Can’t
Cover Up Iraq’s
Death Toll Catastrophe
By John Tirman,
AlterNet.org
January 21, 2008
Now I know what Hillary Clinton meant, first hand, by that “vast right-wing conspiracy.” When the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Sunday Times in London are going after you — along with about 100 right-wing bloggers — rest assured you’ve hit a nerve.
Or is […]

The ‘Terrific News’ In Iraq
By Joseph A. Palermo
The Huffington Post
January 16
I really hate to break it to Michael Barone, William Kristol, Kenneth Pollack, Michael O’Hanlon, and other triumphalists, but the United States is not “winning” in Iraq (whatever that means) and George W. Bush’s “surge strategy” is a failure and a fraud.
I don’t know if […]

Conservative Newspaper
Calls for Iraq Troop
Withdrawal
Questions Bush’s
‘Mental Stability’
Other Major Papers
Calling for War’s End
By E&P Staff
Editor & Publisher
July 16, 2007
NEW YORK — The Pittsburgh newspaper owned by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife yesterday called the Bush administration’s plans to stay the course in Iraq a “prescription for American suicide.”
The editorial in the Tribune-Review added, “And quite […]

New Media Offensive
for the Iraq War

By Norman Solomon
Truthout.org
16 November 2006

The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing US troops from Iraq.
In the latest media assault, right-wing outfits like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page are secondary. The heaviest firepower is now coming from the most valuable […]