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Rupert Murdoch, who got his start in business marketing rats and manure, has chosen to deny Italy access to a television network that has presented critical coverage of both Murdoch and of leading Italian media baron and prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The network, Current TV, is the project of a man identified in Italy primarily as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore.

Here’s Gore in Italy denouncing Murdoch’s move: (play read more

Here’s a blog that readers of Dailykos despised:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/28/970914/-Obama-Denies-Vermont-He…

Here’s one a day later (currently on their most-popular list) that they loved:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/28/971283/-Alan-Simpson-Just-Asked…

FireDogLake loved both. Democratic Underground got into a bitter split over the first one and loved the second one.

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War in Afghanistan alone is costing us over 2 billion a week. Author David Swanson challenges Oblama to stop our 3 wars if he really wants to solve the deficit. He questions the necessity of the Civil War, read more

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that other nations are doing a better job of propagandizing the world and that the United States needs to do more. However, we already invest far more in foreign propaganda than in domestic public media, and virtually nothing in domestic media trust busting. The distinction between our domestic and foreign public media is part of what makes them both so weak in credibility (the other part is the size of the lies they tell), and Bob McChesney is read more

The reason people in Tunisia, Egypt, and other parts of the world have been influenced to some extent by the work of Wikileaks is that they have read or heard about the material that Wikileaks has helped to make public. The CBS program “60 Minutes” has just published video of an interview with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange — with the video focused, of course, on Assange himself, with almost no substantive content related to the massive crimes and abuses that have made news read more

By David Swanson

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is the latest in a series of major newspapers around the country that have announced a partnership with a group called PolitiFact which will aid them in the innovative practice of letting readers know whether statements made by politicians are true or not. Here’s last Sunday’s front page announcement:

“Starting today, The Plain Dealer officially kicks off PolitiFact Ohio, a new way to examine the claims, ads and statements of players read more