Catch Me on the Randi Rhodes Show With Guest Host Nicole Sandler around 4 pm ET
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Teachers or Wars, We Can’t Fund Both
The National Education Association Peace and Justice Caucus has joined 110 other organizations and congressional candidates in opposing any more funding of foreign wars. While the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has stalled further war escalation funding until Congress funds teachers, teachers themselves do not want the war escalation funded at all, and certainly not with school funding used as pretty packaging on the same piece of legislation.
Eighty-four congressional candidates
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Fear, War, Greed, Disaster, and Journalism
By David Swanson
The Independent Film Channel is airing a series of four programs this week that illustrate the kind of media we need in this country. The four programs, titled “Fear,” “War,” “Greed,” and “Disaster,” feature the reporting of four independent unembedded journalists: Max Blumenthal, Nir Rosen, Charlie LeDuff, and Andrew Berends. The 30-minute episodes premiere Monday, May 24 through Thursday, May 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.
I’ve had
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Five Dollar Friday: This Can't Be Happening
For today’s five dollar friday I’ve given $5 to http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
This site has been expanded from Dave Lindorff’s unequaled blog to a news and blog site with four contributors: Lindorff, Charles Young, John Grant, and Linn Washington. And their writing is phenomenal.
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Five Dollar Friday: Giving to MayFirst
For today’s Five Dollar Friday I’m going to give $5 to MayFirst, because tomorrow is May first, and because the world’s best, most ethical, most progressive, most visionary internet service provider actually knows the meaning of May first. Check out http://mayfirst.org. These are the people who helped me start a website within 5 hours of Cindy Sheehan camping out at Bush’s “ranch” and telling me she wanted a website. These
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The Real War Reporters
Go read this article by William Rivers Pitt: The Real War Reporters.
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Is Best Antiwar Voice on TV Glenn Beck?
By David Swanson
I mean that as a serious question. Now, I don’t think Glenn Beck has much between his ears. I don’t think he has a coherent principled view of anything, and I expect he would throw his own grandmother under a bus for a buck. His opposition to war is driven by the most disgusting priorities, lacks logic or coherence, and manages to co-exist with a certain strain of fascism for dummies. He thinks he can put the military in charge of Congress AND defund the military.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media
By David Swanson
ACORN is shutting down because of a fraudulent video pimped by the corporate media. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have heroically laid seige to and conquered a fictional city, helping build the case for further escalation. A cable news channel has created a right-wing mass movement by pretending it already existed. Congressman Dennis Kucinich voted for a health insurance bill he believed would deprive more people of healthcare (and wealth and homes), because fraudulent reports
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