Far South Suburban NAACP requests help for the Women’s Resource Assistance Program Annual Christmas Party Help us make this holiday special for those less fortunate Toy drop off location: 195 East 154th Street, Suite 206 Harvey, Illinois More information here Information about the Women’s Resource Assistance Program here
Day: November 4, 2015
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Obama’s Budget Signals Modest Correction to Our Highly Militarized Foreign Policy
Budget Makes No ‘Sweeping Shift’ in Security Spending Yet Budget Analysis By Miriam Pemberton and Suzanne Smith In December, The New York Times reported that Obama’s Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and Defense Secretary had all “embraced a sweeping shift of priorities and resources in the national security arena…a[Read More…]
Economists Comprised Only 6 Percent of Guest Appearances Discussing Stimulus on Cable News, Sunday Shows
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In a February 4 article on The Huffington Post, Crooksandliars.com founder John Amato observed: “I’m sure you’ve heard about the hundreds of economists that are either for or against President Obama’s stimulus plan. My question to the media is: Where are they?” A Media Matters for America review[Read More…]
Will’s Climate Change Column Sparks Outrage in Environmental Community
After Post refuses to address numerous global warming falsehoods, leading environmental organizations join Media Matters in calling for correction Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Today, Media Matters for America President Eric Burns joined Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski, and Friends of the Earth President Brent[Read More…]
Media Matters: Putting the ‘Partisan’ in ‘Bipartisanship’
Analysis by Jamison Foser If there was any doubt that the news media have a badly skewed understanding of “bipartisanship” — one in which no number of concessions from Democrats is enough and no number from Republicans is too little — the reaction to Judd Gregg’s decision to back out[Read More…]
Substantive Policy Takes Back Seat to Raw Politics in the Media
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– As President Obama signs the economic recovery package into law, Media Matters for America looks back at how the media too often let politics drive the debate and failed to give the public an accurate and honest assessment of what is in the legislation. Since Obama took office,[Read More…]
Wash. Times Falsely Claimed CBO “Estimated That the Full Cost Of” Recovery Bill “Will Reach $3.2 Trillion By 2019”
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– A February 17 Washington Times editorial falsely claimed that “[t]he nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the full cost of [the economic recovery] bill, including its $348 billion debt service and the out-year financing, will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019.” In fact, more than half of that[Read More…]
Full Circle in Iraq
by Dahr Jamail February 8th, 2009 | T r u t h o u t Among things that have not changed in Iraq is one that I hope never changes. After a four-year-long absence, each of my meetings here with former friends and fresh acquaintances seems to suggest that adversity[Read More…]