Archive: July 2009
News America Marketing (NAM) is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corps. – the mother ship of Fox News. NAM was recently sued by Valassis, a competitor in the newspaper ad-stuffers biz. Rupert Murdoch’s NAM lost the case and will pay $300-million to the plaintiff for engaging in underhanded, monopolistic business practices. Along the way, at trial, we are offered
NYTJuly 30, 2009 To the Editor: Re “Government Hit Squads, Minus the Hits” (Week in Review, July 19): I was a special assistant to George W. Ball in 1964, when Cyprus was a dominant foreign policy concern and Archbishop Makarios was the magnetic leader of the Greek Cypriot people in secular as well as spiritual affairs. He was also
by Zack23 www.dailykos.comJul 05, 2009 According to School of the Americas Watch, Honduran human rights organizations are receiving reports that opponents of the recent military coup (led by School of the Americas graduates General Romeo Velasquez and General Luis Javier Prince Suazo) are being assasinated. Bodies are being found with all their clothes, money, and cell phones, a strong indication
By Nat Worden JULY 23, 2009 NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Valassis Communications Inc. (VCI), a marketing company for consumer goods, said Thursday that it won $300 million in damages from a lawsuit alleging unfair competitive practices against News Corp. (NWSA) unit News America Marketing. News Corp., owner of this newswire, said it was “disappointed” with the jury’s verdict in a county
By Tallulah MoreheadHuffington PostJune 4, 2009 I watch a lot of old movies on TCM, mostly because TCM are my initials. (I’m Tallulah Clytemnestra Morehead) and I just finished watching a doozy of a terrible movie on TCM, one that has to be seen to be disbelieved: the ultra-hilarious piece of right-wing objectivist claptrap, the movie of Ayn Rand’s ridiculous
Related: “Michael Jackson and the Fellowship Foundation Cult” By American Atheistswww.opposingviews.comJuly 28, 2009 A mushrooming scandal over members of the U.S. congress and a shadowy religious “fellowship”based in Washington, DC is attracting more news coverage and questions, and could lead to calls that the House Ethics Committee open an immediate investigation. The story began when Sen. John Ensign admitted
Who’s winning the Afghan War?: “DynCorp has emerged as one of the big winners of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which now generate 53% of DynCorp’s $3.1 billion of annual revenue. … “ Nathan VardiForbes07.30.09 Increasingly frozen out by the U.S. military, KBR concedes the Afghan battlefront. DynCorp International, the Falls Church, Va., provider of mission critical services to
“Conservatives” of the ’70s had a good laugh at the “scare-mongering” liberals who claimed that Agent Orange was a destructive poison. Spokemen for the American Enterprise Institute, a CIA/military intelligence propaganda front, offered to drink it to prove the defoliant harmless, but of course they chickened out. My uncle fought in Vietnam and was exposed to the poison – he
Why do our political leaders gloss over Dublin’s dirty little secret?By Stephen KingIrish ExaminerJuly 15, 2009 Sad to say, it’s a telling sign that when a statue to a Nazi collaborator goes up in Dublin, the least that happens is a splash of emulsion. Can you imagine if a statue to Marshal Pétain were erected in Paris? Or one to
Excerpt: “Dr. Conrad Murray: Investigating Michael Jackson’s Personal Doctor” By JIM AVILA, LUCHINA FISHER and SHEILA MARIKAR ABC News July 30, 2009 … In the wake of the investigation, a slew of liens and lawsuits against Murray has emerged. In the last three years, Murray has faced lawsuits for unpaid business bills totaling over $700,000, including rent on his medical