This is a commentary on a recent article by William Thomas called "Microwaving Iraq." Thomas' web site is at www.willthomas.net. (3:33)

Hi, this is Jody Paulson from Moscow, ID with what they don't tell you.

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This week in Palestine - a service of the International Middle East Media Center, imemc.org, for the week of January 29th to February 4th, 2005.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday February 8th in the first meeting between the leaders of the two sides in over four years.

Israeli invasions of Palestinian areas continued this week, in the midst of a flurry of political decisions by both Israel and the U.S. in regard to the Palestinian people.

\Hoaxes, payola, and press releases disguised as news. What's real anymore?

Hi, this is Jody Paulson from Moscow, ID with what they don't tell you.

In the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog" the president and his spin doctor hired a Hollywood producer to fabricate a war to cover up a scandal in the White House. I remember them filming a scene where a war-torn Albanian woman ducks behind a building clutching a kitten. In reality, the woman was a cheap actress ducking behind a blue screen clutching a bag of potato chips. Sometimes a movie can be more truthful than the nightly news.

I don't like the way this FBI's a treatin' me
I don't like the way the spies are treatin' me
I just don't like the way these guys are treatin' me,
Poor me, it's the lockup if I speak my mind about it.

“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright
# 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’
it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn,
cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it.
Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted
to do.”

A weekly review of news at the intersection of media and democracy.

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SBC to buy AT&T: what are the implications of this acquisition? And media reform wins an important judicial victory as the federal government declines to appeal a decision blocking rule changes that would loosen media ownership restrictions.

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.

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            The latest Shortwave Report (February 4) is up at the website
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War of the Trees is WSQT's show on environmental issues from lead in DC's water to Free's case to in this case teh inter-County-Connector(ICC) highway.

The ICC is a proposed highway in MD backed by Republican governor Bob Erlich and almost all the real estate and development interests. It has been stopped by teh public for 40 years at this time.

The ICC would cut through forests and wetlands now sufficiently isolated that species such as brown trout and spotted salamanders flourish on parts of the proposed route.

Swords Into Plowshares - Press conference 3 February 2005
Make Shannon a Sanctuary of PEACE for US Military Resistors.

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Conference held by the Catholic workers Group to highlight the use of Shannon Airport by the US army and the effects of the war on Iraq.

Chaired by Damian Moran

Finian Mc Grath TD

David Birmingham

Ed Horgan

Senator David Norris

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Your weekly wrap-up of North American police brutality, misconduct and corruption.

This week:

Georgia cop who fatally shot man with stun gun placed on leave for killing dog

Ohio man killed by police taser

Detroit cop kills pedestrian in drunken car crash

Arizona cop beats up a 16 year-old

New Hampshire cops in St Patrick's Day brawls

Iowa police chief gets 10 years for sex-for-freedom extortion

New Jersey cops gets 7 years for attempted sexual assault of a 14 year-old

Washington cop found guilty of raping a 12 year old