Audio: Scott Harris' Counterpoint with John Quigley, Alex Lawson, Kevin Gosztola, David Swanson
Here’s audio of a great show discussing “fiscal cliff,” Bradley Manning, Palestine, and drone wars:
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Explain the Past Four Years
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan are touring the country with a new book that everyone should have and read. “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope” is a history of the Obama Years in the form of a thematically organized collection of columns — columns that grew out of the reporting done by the most useful show on our airwaves: Democracy Now!
How quickly we forget, or even never knew, this recent history — history that will never
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There's a Real Debate With Debating in It Next Tuesday
Next Tuesday, October 23rd, 9 p.m. ET, there will be a different sort of presidential debate. It’ll be in Chicago, hosted by http://freeandequal.org and I’ll be there in Chicago covering it for Al Jazeera. Six candidates have been invited to participate, and four have accepted: Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, Gary Johnson, and Virgil Goode. The moderator will be Larry King. You can submit questions here.
I know we’ve all thrilled to the body-language and tone
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KPFT's The Monitor Takes on Violence
Listen here.
The theme of this week’s show: Guns and Media
- RootsAction.org and Just Foreign Policy have launched a campaign targeting NBC’s new program, “Stars Earn Stripes,” a reality show co-hosted by retired U.S. General Wesley Clark and co-starring Todd Palin, which the network is advertising during the Olympics. We discuss this with David Swanson
- Another mass shooting, this time in Wisconsin, has people wondering what can be done about gun violence, the gun lobby and the debate about second amendment protections. We discuss this with Ladd Everitt
More about this week’s guests:
David Swanson
David Swanson holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the
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Best Southern Corporate Editorial Ever
One cannot always count on words of wisdom from the editorials published by corporate newspaper chains in the Southern United States, or anywhere else. This one is far from perfect, but remarkably great. This was published by the Charlottesville Daily Progress on Tuesday and adapted by them from their corporate sister the Richmond Times Dispatch. Possibly numerous other Media General (Warren Buffet) newspapers printed the same or similar:
“Would cuts in defense spending be a bad thing?
“By: | The Daily Progress
“Published: August 07, 2012
“Gov. Bob
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Audio: David Swanson and Coy Barefoot Discuss NBC's New War Reality Show
Charlottesville Right Now: 7-30-12 David Swanson
David Swanson from davidswanson.org joins the show to discuss a new NBC show called Stars Earn Stripes that turns war into a reality show. LISTEN.
And then …
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NBC Invents War-o-tainment
If you’ve watched the Olympics on NBC you’ve probably seen ads promoting a war-o-tainment reality show cohosted by retired U.S. General Wesley Clark, co-starring Todd Palin, and with no apparent role for reality.
The ads brag about the use of real bullets in a way that promoters of the new Batman movie probably wouldn’t try. But the chances that any of the celebrities engaged in “war competition” on
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