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Here’s audio of a great show discussing “fiscal cliff,” Bradley Manning, Palestine, and drone wars:
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/45419
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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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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The theme of this week’s show: Guns and Media
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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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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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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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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Poverty in the United States is surrounded by myths and misunderstanding. Poverty is expanding, and extreme poverty is expanding. The social safety net is retracting. Congress has just slashed food stamps. But corporate media coverage that misleads us on the nature and causes of poverty is neither expanding nor improving. Karen Dolan is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and coordinator of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She discusses this
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Below is Nader’s list of books you should read to jolt your mind into action.
I’m going to skip number 8 because I wrote it, but I’d like to offer it to you at a discount.
For the paperback, kindle, epub, PDF, or audio book, just go to:Ralph Nader Lists 11 Books You Should Read Read More »
Is the ideal military recruit an independent thinker who refuses illegal orders, an obedient automaton who does anything he’s told, or a vicious sadist eager to rape and kill? Is courage more important or strength? Does it make the slightest difference if a soldier is gay?
We can agree to disagree. But most people are going to agree that the ideal recruit is not a drooling idiot who announces, “I want
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Dennis Trainor, Jr., has produced a full-length movie of the Occupy movement, and he’s done a hell of a great job.
The Occupy movement was created, as are all movements in the United States, in large part by the corporate media. They didn’t understand it. They didn’t want it. They didn’t originate it or take part in it or develop its brilliants insights, effective techniques, or inspiring courage. They transmitted what to them was an indecipherable
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If you sat through the two-hour debut of NBC’s “Stars Earn Stripes” on Monday, you heard the promotion for next week’s show: “They barely survived the first week!” And you thought to yourself: “Uh, no, that was me.”
What intolerable filth! In this “reality” show, “celebrities” we’ve mostly never heard of are paired off with current or former members of the U.S. military to “play” at “missions
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According to Mitt Romney, the world is not safe. Presumably someone somewhere says the world is perfectly safe, and to that person we can all bellow: “Ha! Mitt’s right, and you are wrong!” Except that what Mitt seems to mean is all wrong. He declares in the next breath that Iran is rushing to become a nuclear nation and share nuclear weapons with terrorist groups.
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Chris Hayes was driving me crazy, because I was beginning to think I’d need to start watching television. Luckily I’ve been saved from that fate, it seems. Hayes’ comments on MSNBC, for which he has now absurdly apologized, were the type of basic honesty — or, better, truth telling as revolutionary act — that was tempting me.
MSNBC is part of a larger corporation that makes more money from war than from infotainment. Phil Donahue learned his lesson, along with Jeff
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The New York Times chose this “terror Tuesday” to publish an article called “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will,” a bizarre article that never explains what Obama’s principles or will are or even offers any evidence that Obama has any principles or will.
There is one section in which the authors point out that Obama went out of his way to sneak the despicable John Brennan into his White House despite Congressional opposition,
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Now here’s a book that’s meant to be used: “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution” edited by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell. The subtitle should be “Try this at home — but innovate!” Instead it’s “From the people who brought you the Yes Men, Billionaires Against Bush, etc.”
Beautiful Trouble is a terrific addition to Gene Sharp’s catalog of nonviolent tactics, less
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Chase Madar’s new book, The Passion of Bradley Manning, pulls together the essential facts that we should try to somehow deliver to television viewers and victims of our education system. The subtitle is “The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History.”
The book looks at Manning’s life story, his alleged action (leaking voluminous materials to Wikileaks), the value of the material he made available to us, the status of whistleblowers in
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