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...heels of the news that a Pentagon contractor pays Iraqi journalists to write and print articles sympathetic to America, The New York Times reported last week that the same contractor has been paying Sunni clerics in Iraq for propaganda assistance. This recent news is, in many ways, similarly troubling: it threatens to undermine moderate Iraqis and other Arabs who genuinely call for democracy in the Middle East...
...Last November, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Pentagon pays to place both news reports and opinion pieces in the Iraqi media. Some articles are ghost-written by American soldiers and then planted in the Iraqi press; other payments are made to Iraqi journalists who write their own copy but toe the American line...
...summaries that were published without attribution to the government. In an age of global media, there were also worries that “news” placed abroad might make its way back into the U.S., running afoul of prohibitions on government propaganda in America. Others, including a senior Pentagon official, cited the fundamental credibility gap between an America that proudly champions the freedom of the press and an administration that feels no compunction about subtly subverting it in a foreign country...
...farewell address as President, Eisenhower cautioned against the sprawling "military industrial complex." To Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger), Eisenhower was a Cassandra unheeded. In the years since Ike issued his warning, the military budget has grown exponentially, and the complex is ever more complex, embracing the Pentagon, the arms industry, Congress, think tanks and a large slice of the media...
Their tally goes far beyond the traditional budget lines of the Pentagon, which says $173 billion was spent through September 2005. For instance, the paper includes estimates for the lifetime cost of disability payments and health care for some 16,000 injured soldiers, increased recruitment budgets, and?since the government has not reined in spending or raised taxed?debt financing for war expenditures. The paper also counts macroeconomic effects like the rising price...