Media

Speak With Elizabeth Kucinich Live Online Tonight

International Human Rights and Environmental Advocate

Showtime: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 – 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern

Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live.

You’ll find instructions there to enter a paltalk chat room where you can post questions.

You can also phone in and ask your questions on the air. Call in tollfree from anywhere in the United States or Canada at 888-228-4494 or anywhere else in the world at 877-489-6350.

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Upcoming Radio Shows with John Dean and Elizabeth de la Vega

By David Swanson

Here are two upcoming live online radio shows you can participate in:

Tuesday, July 8, 8-9 p.m. ET: John Dean, counsel to President Richard Nizon, whose latest book is “Broken Government,” and whose past works include “Worse Than Watergate.”

Wednesday, July 9, 8-9 p.m. ET: Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor, author of “The United States vs. George W. Bush.”

Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live.

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Punishing Pentagon Propaganda

By David Swanson

Responses to the exposure of corporate media military “experts” being secretly told what to say by the Pentagon have ranged from yawns to shouts to ass-scratching. On Wednesday, the Center for Media and Democracy ( http://www.prwatch.org ) published this comment:

“As Paul Schmelzer wrote on the Minnesota Independent website, ‘There were two National Conferences on Media Reform in Minneapolis over the weekend: the one I attended and the one Bill O’Reilly, read more

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Mission Accomplished Or How We Won the War in Iraq

By David Swanson

That’s the title of a new book by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky. It’s actually just a collection of the familiar quotes by Bush, Cheney, and gang, plus Democrats, plus pundits, all lying about Iraq before and during the occupation. It’s mostly not a funny collection, but it’s sort-of packaged as one and it’s probably funnier than that truly dumb “The Young Dick Cheney” book that Alternet has promoted in a few hundred Emails. But read more

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Building Our Own Media

By David Swanson

We will never succeed without media, and we will never succeed at media by criticism and legislation alone. We must build our own.

One small way in which I’m working on that is by hosting a weekly radio show online at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net

It’s every Wednesday evening from 8-9 p.m. ET, and people can and do phone in to ask questions of my guests from all over the world. You can mark the show on your calendar, go to the link above to listen, and phone in read more

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