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Znet Article Tomchick: Iraq: Money For Nothing

Znet Article, January, 12 2004 Maria Tomchick
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One of the most important news stories in 2004 is where the $18.6 billion in U.S. taxpayer money that Congress voted to spend on Iraqi reconstruction is to be spent and how. Already some of the details are available, and the trend is disturbing.Th...

Znet Article Tomchick: Happy New Years: And Be Careful What You Eat

Znet Article, December, 30 2003 Maria Tomchick
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In the days following the discovery of mad cow disease in Washington State, the U.S. cattle industry has been hard at work trying to calm Americans' fears about tainted meat. Our weak regulatory agencies -- the Food and Drug Administration and the...

Znet Article Tomchick: Got Saddam But Not Much Else

Znet Article, December, 15 2003 Maria Tomchick
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Saddam is in custody, but the war's not over yet. The U.S. faces several important hurdles in the bringing the war to an end and extricating U.S. troops from a seemingly endless fracas.The most critical problem involves the ceaseless guerrilla att...

Znet Article Tomchick: Iraq: More Dangerous Every Day

Znet Article, December, 02 2003 Maria Tomchick
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Is the "security situation" in Iraq improving? The best clue may be George Bush's 2-hour, top-secret visit to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day, in which he never left the heavily fortified grounds of the Baghdad International Airport.Bush was not the firs...

Znet Article Tomchick: Mass Transit: What Our Tax Dollars Should Be Paying For

Znet Article, November, 11 2003 Maria Tomchick
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Here in the U.S., we live under the myth that mass transit should have to pay for itself, that it should exist without infusions of taxpayer money. The whole notion is absurd. Freeways and road improvements use up public funds, and the auto indust...

Znet Article Tomchick: Iraq: The Money Pit

Znet Article, October, 14 2003 Maria Tomchick
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A mere week after the Bush administration announced it would privatize Iraq's infrastructure, the plan has been put on hold. Perhaps someone in the administration finally realized that, since there is no Iraqi infrastructure to speak of, there isn...

Znet Article Tomchick: Rumsfeld's Fall From Grace

Znet Article, September, 08 2003 Maria Tomchick
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History books will characterize the Bush administration for its in-fighting: the struggle between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, backed by a host of extremely conservative civilian policy wonks at the Pentagon, and Secretary of State Colin Pow...

Znet Article Tomchick: The Cameraman And The Diplomat

Znet Article, August, 25 2003 Maria Tomchick
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Mazen Dana, father of four young children, Palestinian, award-winning cameraman for Reuters wire service, was shot dead at close range by a U.S. soldier while filming the damage from a mortar attack on an Iraqi prison. Sergio Vieira de Mello, fath...

Znet Article Tomchick: A Council Already Divided

Znet Article, August, 03 2003 Maria Tomchick
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With U.S. troops dying daily in Iraq, the Bush administration has been pushing its viceroy, Paul Bremer, to jump-start Iraqi democracy. The product of this pressure is the new governing council. But two weeks after its formation, questions remain ...

Znet Article Tomchick: This Is What A Guerilla War Looks Like

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Maria Tomchick
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While it's now apparent that The Pentagon made no substantial plans for how to run post-war Iraq, somebody else in Iraq has certainly made plans for how to sabotage U.S. rule. Before the war began, military strategists insisted that they had a pl...

Znet Article Tomchick: The War Continues

Znet Article, June, 17 2003 Maria Tomchick
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The circus lions of the U.S. media faithfully refrained from reporting on the June 9th launch of the largest U.S. military offensive in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, leaving Americans blissfully unaware that George W. Bush lied about more than t...

Znet Article Tomchick: The Killings At Fallujah

Znet Article, May, 04 2003 Maria Tomchick
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On Monday, April 28, the U.S. media focused on Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad, while a shocking event played out in a town just 30 miles to the west, where U.S. troops opened fire on Iraqi civilians, killing 15 people and wounding dozens of dem...

Znet Article Tomchick: Sheiks And Swindlers

Znet Article, April, 22 2003 Maria Tomchick
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Now that Iraq has been thoroughly looted and it's history pillaged and burned, the Pentagon has commenced the task of replacing the old regime with a new one. Unfortunately, the new regime could end up looking very much like the old one. The Bush...

Znet Article Tomchick: Inspectors Disprove US Accusations

Znet Article, March, 10 2003 Maria Tomchick
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On Friday, chief UN weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei made their reports to the UN Security Council. The U.S. press, which eagerly covered previous reports, barely mentioned this event. Why? Because both reports draw conclusions t...

Znet Article Tomchick: What If Turkey Agrees?

Znet Article, February, 23 2003 Maria Tomchick
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So, what will happen if Turkey eventually strikes a deal with the United States to let it use Turkish bases? Once war starts, this deal could mean disaster for everyone involved. Turkish bases are key to U.S. war plans, which rely on a two-front ...

Znet Article Tomchick: Powell's Flimsy Evidence

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Maria Tomchick
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Only two days after Colin Powell made his presentation to the U.N. Security Council, the evidence he provided is unraveling. Through interviews with experts, intelligence sources, and an examination of the physical evidence, reporters are piecing ...

Znet Article Tomchick: A Tax Cut That Would Sink The Economy

Znet Article, January, 13 2003 Maria Tomchick
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The U.S. media is expending a lot of ink and air time evaluating the potential economic effects of George Bush's new tax-cut proposal. So far, most of the discussion has centered around how much economic stimulus the plan will provide and how long...

Znet Article Tomchick: Operation Provoke Iraq

Znet Article, December, 29 2002 Maria Tomchick
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In recent weeks, the Bush administration has stepped up efforts to destabilize the Iraqi government, while aggressively deploying troops and ships in a manner that could provoke an attack from Iraq -- and provide an excuse to start a war. Over th...

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