Media Coverage of "Emergency" War Spending Blacks Out Any Mention of Amendment Banning Spending on Permanent Bases

By David Swanson

Check Bloomberg, or The New York Times, or Knight Ridder, or as far as I know any other outlet, and you will not find mention in the articles about the spending bill the fact that both houses added amendments banning the use of the money for building permanent bases in Iraq. However, separate short articles do mention this important development in the Oakland Tribune and corporately related newspapers in Northern California, home of Rep. Barbara Lee, who authored the amendment in the House. The Boston Globe today printed an op-ed calling for the U.S. to announce it won't build permanent military bases, yet the Globe has not informed its readers that Congress has effectively done just that (until it's illegally stripped out behind the closed doors of a conference committee).