This study consists of a statistical examination of ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News coverage of the first year of the current Palestinian uprising, and of their coverage of that uprising in 2004. The categories examined are coverage of conflict deaths and, as a subcategory, children’s deaths. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/net-report.html

By Peter Phillips and David Kubiak Many economists now doubt that government measures can prevent a major recession given the severe slump in the housing market, the subprime mortgage crisis, growing unemployment, declining consumer spending, and record high oil prices. Even harder times for working people are undoubtedly at hand, yet mainstream corporate media continues [...]

Guest article by Dr. Dennis Loo, Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona Bush and Cheney have not yet disappeared. A good thing, the White House tells us, for six years have elapsed since 9/11 without another terrorist attack on the U.S. But the absence of an attack doesn’t necessarily prove their case. Eight years [...]

By Andrew L. Roth “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglass Background Note: On 15 February 2007, Sonoma State University students organized a campus strike to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Strikers at Sonoma State acted in solidarity with the members of twenty additional [...]

By Peter Phillips Nancy Pelosi declared on national television “impeachment is off the table.” Impeachment, it seems, is too divisive for a 2008-oriented Democratic Party leadership and will interfere with the business of Congress over the next two years. The Democrats seem to be giving a pardon to Bush and Cheney without even having a [...]

By Peter Phillips If a national movement calling for the impeachment of the President is rapidly emerging and the corporate media are not covering it, is there really a national movement for the impeachment of the President? Impeachment advocates are widely mobilizing in the U.S. Over 1,000 letters to the editors of major newspapers have [...]

Articles about the US and the buildup against Iran Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat: With Twelve Principles of War Propaganda in Ongoing Service by Edward S. Herman http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?itemid=9910 Nuclear War Against Iran by Michel Chossudovsky http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20CH20060103&articleId=1714 Iran’s Euro-denominated Oil Bourse to Open in March; US$ Crash Imminent! by William [...]