Tuesday, February 19, 2002

Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries, military officials said.


'Axis of evil' remark sparks damaging backlash

Three weeks after President Bush opened a war of words against the "axis of evil," the early battles are not going well.


Secrecy leads to inescapable question: What's Bush hiding?

The article Monday on Texas' attempt to make its former governor's records available to the public is most enlightening ("Texas struggle to get Bush papers reflects other records flaps"). The reactionary, Republican administration is setting new highs in being secretive.



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