Media

By David Swanson

Fox News screaming head Glenn Beck now tells President Obama to fire White House employees, and Obama obeys. While Obama presumably believes obedience will cause Beck to like him and begin praising him, Beck is building a list of additional people whose heads he will demand and denouncing Obama as hiding vast secrets by having complied with the demand to fire Van Jones.

If you can’t stand to watch Glenn Beck on television and want some idea of how he persuades a noisy minority read more

By David Swanson

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sent an Email around on Sunday in which she wrote:

“[I]t has just now come to my attention that a ‘journalist’ who suggested that I be lynched was actually being paid by our own government to say that. Now, when I reported it to the FBI, how in the world was I to know that he was at that time on the FBI’s payroll?”

“Hate blogger” Hal Turner’s lawyer said last week, and prosecutors agreed, that Turner read more

David Swanson Interview With Stephen Lendman Tuesday, 11 AM EDT, Listen Live or On Archive

David Swanson will discuss his new book, “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” with Stephen Lendman on the Global Research News Hour on Tuesday, August 4th at 11 AM EDT, 10 AM Central. Click “Listen Live” here. The call-in number is 800-313-9443.

If you wish, you can get an mp3 by going to Global Research.ca, read more

The time has come.
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
GO!
I don’t care how.
You can go by moose.
You can go by cow.
Sarah L. Palin will you please go now!
You can wear those boots.
You can show your knees.
You can don that hat.
But please go.
Please!
You can bring a
comb, a
mirror, a
brush, a
first class ticket
on the bus to
Russia.
You can wear read more

By David Swanson

A week ago, I published a report on 1,200 photos of U.S. torture that I have examined but the public at large has not seen. I talked about the photos on a few progressive radio shows. I received calls from some advocacy groups that have been trying for years to get hold of these photos. But I received not one single inquiry from the corporate media. Even most good blogs ignored this story despite a handful of prominent blogs read more

By David Swanson

On Tuesday my local newspaper reported on an event here in town on Monday. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had come down to Charlottesville and spoken publicly with local Congressman Tom Perriello, generating a story and big color photo on page 1 of the Charlottesville Daily Progress. The headline was “In UVa visit, Democrats call deficit reckless.”

The newspaper reported on Congressman Perriello warning that he could not vote for healthcare without a way to pay read more

Listen to the latest edition of The Urban Journal

Hosted by Keith Murphy on XM Satellite Radio Channel 169, "The Power" daily, Monday through Friday, 8pm Eastern and the special encore edition at 5am.

Also Progressive Democrats of America has posted a recording of an Accountability & Justice Conference Call held on May 13, 2009.  Go here and skip the first 6 minutes of people calling in and introducing themselves.

By David Swanson

An association representing top advertisers on broadcast and cable television has proposed the creation of a new Cheney Channel dedicated exclusively to the Cheney family, the primary motivation apparently being to get Dick and Liz off all the other channels where their presence seems to be hurting the sales of advertised products.

OK, not really, but it wouldn’t surprise me. One of the products that Liz Cheney seems to be hurting is in fact Dick. Ray McGovern just pointed read more