[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Fact-Checking President Bush: http://www.accuracy.org/2003

[Jim Buell]

This links to a superb, detailed annotation of the entire gut-wrenching 
Fate of the Union address the other night. I confess I couldn't bring 
myself to listen to more than half a sentence at a time as it was delivered 
(channel-flipping to movie and comedy channels, then back, etc.), and could 
only stand to skim even the text version last night at whitehouse.gov. The 
IPA spin-checking makes it much more bearable, if no less infuriating. As 
they say, "read it 'n weep."

Jim


>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:25:10 -0500
>To: public at lists.accuracy.org
>From: Institute for Public Accuracy <ipamedia at nationalpress.com>
>Subject: Fact-Checking President Bush: http://www.accuracy.org/2003
>
>
>Institute for Public Accuracy
>915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
>(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org
>___________________________________________________
>
>         PM Thursday, January 30, 2003
>
>         Fact-Checking and Spin-Checking President Bush
>         A Critical Assessment at: http://www.accuracy.org/2003
>
>    The Institute for Public Accuracy today released an in-depth analysis 
> to key claims in President Bush's State of the Union Address, drawing on 
> the work of more than 20 analysts. The critique -- available at 
> http://www.accuracy.org/2003 -- focuses on issues of foreign policy and 
> the domestic economy. Contributing analysts who are available for 
> interviews include:
>
>JILL NELSON, JillieJams at aol.com
>Author and columnist, Nelson is available for a general assessment of the 
>address.
>
>DEAN BAKER, dean.baker at att.net
>Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
>
>DIANA ZUCKERMAN, dz at center4policy.org
>Zuckerman is president of the National Center for Policy Research for 
>Women and Families.
>
>DOUG HENWOOD, dhenwood at panix.com
>Editor of Left Business Observer, Henwood is author of the book "Wall Street."
>
>Dr. IDA HELLANDER, pnhp at aol.com
>Hellander is executive director of Physicians for a National Health Program.
>
>SALIH BOOKER, sbooker at africapolicy.org
>Executive director of Africa Action, Booker has focused on the AIDS pandemic.
>
>RAJ PATEL, rpatel at foodfirst.org
>Policy analyst at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, 
>and a visiting fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, Patel 
>can address Bush's AIDS proposal and other aspects of his economic program.
>
>JACQUELINE CABASSO, wslf at earthlink.net
>Executive director of the Western States Legal Foundation and co-author of 
>the report "The End of Disarmament and the Arms Races to Come."
>
>SUSAN WRIGHT, spwright at umich.edu
>Editor of "Biological Warfare and Disarmament: New Problems/New Perspectives."
>
>BARBARA OLSHANSKY, bjo at ccr-ny.org
>Co-author of "Against War with Iraq" and author of "Secret Trials and 
>Executions."
>
>MICHAEL RATNER, mratner at igc.org
>Co-author of "Against War with Iraq" and president of the Center for 
>Constitutional Rights.
>
>RAHUL MAHAJAN, rahul at tao.ca
>Mahajan is author of the book "The New Crusade: America's War Against 
>Terrorism" and the forthcoming "The U.S. War on Iraq: Myths, Facts, and Lies."
>
>KARIMA BENNOUNE, kbennoun at andromeda.rutgers.edu
>Bennoune is professor of international law at Rutgers University.
>
>JOHN BURROUGHS, johnburroughs at lcnp.org
>Executive director of the New York-based Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear 
>Policy, Burroughs is co-editor of the just released book "Rule of Power or 
>Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding 
>Security-Related Treaties."
>
>ANAS SHALLAL, ashallal at cox.net
>A "Partner for Peace" in the Seeds of Peace program, one of the founders 
>of the Mesopotamia Cultural Society and an independent Iraqi-American 
>business owner in Washington, DC.
>
>Dr. LAILA AL-MARAYATI, lalmara at aol.com
>Al-Marayati is founder and director of the Muslim Women's League.
>
>STEPHEN ZUNES, stephen at coho.org
>Chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at the University of San 
>Francisco, Zunes is Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus 
>Project and author of the recently released book "Tinderbox: U.S. Middle 
>East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism."
>
>BERT SACKS, b_sacks at hotmail.com
>Sacks has been to Iraq several times, most recently with Congressmen Jim 
>McDermott and David Bonior. He has violated U.S. law in taking medicine 
>without authorization to Iraq and has been fined $10,000.
>
>DIANE PERLMAN, ninedots at aol.com
>A clinical psychologist and contributor to "The Psychology of Terrorism," 
>Perlman notes a good deal of "projection" in Bush's speech.
>
>AS'AD ABUKHALIL, abukhali at toto.csustan.edu
>Author of "Bin Laden, Islam and America's New 'War on Terrorism'" and the 
>forthcoming "The House of Bush and the House of Saud," AbuKhalil is 
>professor of political science at California State University at Stanislaus.
>
>GLEN RANGWALA, gr10009 at cam.ac.uk
>Rangwala is a lecturer in politics at Cambridge University in Britain.
>
>JAMES JENNINGS, jimjennings at conscienceinternational.org
>President of Conscience International, a humanitarian relief organization, 
>Jennings recently returned from Iraq with a group of 32 professors. He 
>previously taught Middle Eastern history at several U.S. universities and 
>has made many trips to Iraq and Afghanistan over the last several years.
>
>RICHARD COUTO, rcouto at phd.antioch.edu
>Professor in the Ph.D. program for leadership and change at Antioch 
>University, Couto is author of "Making Democracy Work Better." He recently 
>returned from Iraq with Jennings and other acedemics.
>
>LEAH WELLS, education at napf.org
>Wells is peace education coordinator for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
>
>MIKE ZMOLEK, outreach at endthewar.org
>Zmolek is coordinator of the National Network to End the War Against Iraq.
>
>JOHN BERG, jberg at world.std.com
>Director of graduate studies of the government department at Suffolk 
>University.
>
>For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>     public at lists.accuracy.org
>To be removed from the list, send any message to:
>     public-unsubscribe at lists.accuracy.org
>
>For all list information and functions, including changing
>your subscription mode and options, visit the Web page:
>     http://lists.accuracy.org/lists/info/public