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- The role of the intellectual
- White House Press: Ground Rules (Clinton 2000 interview with Amy Goodman)
- Egypt…the revolution keeps revolving (Today’s “Women’s March”)
- Bradley Manning in court, Day One
- Occupy Wall Street as Three-card Monte for the media (or: Who’s a ringer?)
- The time we killed civilians in order to save civilians… (NATO in Libya)
- Rick Perry’s YouTube advertisement: Let the voting begin.
- The last gasps of the Bill of Rights, plus Ozone Widget and the Lord’s Army (Nation Defense Authorization Act)
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- “Corporations are people, my friend”
- The place where the drones go…
- Entrenched social inequality, as visible at Starbucks
- How the government will spend its discretionary monies in 2012
- Now that Mubarak is gone, Egypt is free and democratic!
- The forces of counter-revolution amass (reacting to Occupy)
- Interview of Francis Fox Piven (strategy and tactics of struggle, and Occupy Wall Street)
- The atomic bomb and Hiroshima: We had to drop it, to save American lives, right?
- How did you fare Buy Nothing Day?
- Occupy Everywhere: Roundtable with Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, P. Bruener, Rinku Sen, W. Greider
- Foucault in a cowboy hat
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Tag Archives: media
Israel-Palestine conflict: think the coverage is even?
Think again. From the from the Guardian: In 2004 the Glasgow University Media Group published a major study on TV coverage of the Second Intifada and its impact on public understanding. We analysed about 200 programmes and questioned more than … Continue reading
Posted in Another day in Occupied Palestine
Tagged coverage, media, Palestine, reporting
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Intellectual witch hunts: yesterday and today
In the United States, free speech is considered a cornerstone of democratic society. But is speech truly free here? As Chomsky and others have pointed out, the lip service paid to free speech simply means that more covert measures are … Continue reading
Glenn Beck, America’s sad hero
“They’re not stupid. There is a revolution that is beginning. … Many of their people are in and around this administration… And they have a plan. Because they have a plan, they will win… They are going full throttle recruitment… … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting and unlabelled, US News, Sadly Broken
Tagged debate, demagogue, Fox News is really terrible, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, media, news
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How much do we remember about the political rhetoric leading into the war?
This stuff is incredible to listen to in hindsight, because it is so blatantly disingenuous and so flagrantly…wrong. One learns a lot though about how easily the Americans are manipulated. Let’s learn to think, learn to study history, learn to … Continue reading
Posted in Terrorism, US military, US politics, Videos you should see
Tagged Bush, Iraq war, media, Rumsfeld, six weeks, weapons mass destruction, WMD
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