NEWS DELAY – Citizens united against Citizens United

TOP STORIES US oil company donated millions to climate skeptic groups, says Greenpeace The obscenity of war by Amy Goodman Citizens united against Citizens United by David Swanson Police: Teaching kids to mistrust govt. makes couple ‘unsuitable’ parents FINANCIAL SHENANIGANS Bailed out banks are even more powerful now than before the crisis Elizabeth Warren: Bank [...]

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A week’s worth of news on climate, food, energy, animals

The Day After Tomorrow might have been yesterday by Matthew Berger Coal miners join historic rallies to end mountaintop removal from Alternet Aspartame renamed ‘AminoSweet’ and now marketed as ‘natural sweetener’ No way, Bill Gates totally wants to nuke climate change EPA hearts clean coal, capitulates on ethanol from Grist Invasive species, global warming taking [...]

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Winter Olympics shine spotlight on Vancouver, BC

CONTROVERSY AWAITS OPENING DAY OF WINTER OLYMPICS Anti-Olympics coverage from Vancouver Media Co-Op A festival of corporate greed from Green Left Games will be gayest Olympics ever from Alternet Got a need for Internet speed? Move to Vancouver from GigaOm When snow melts: Vancouver’s Olympic crackdown by Dave Zirin Olympic organizers desperate for climate change [...]

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Call your Senator: LPFM, Largest war budget since WWII

TOP STORIES UN investigator cites US neglect of homeless from Project Censored Prometheus Radio asks supporters to prod Senate on LPFM Just 2 in 5 adults now say they read a daily newspaper Obama: I’m a big believer in network neutrality US MILITARISM Obama proposes largest ‘defense’ budget since WWII from Slate Obama defies pledge, [...]

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Campaign finance, Facebook privacy, File-sharing

Institutional integrity and the path to a better democracy by Lawrence Lessig Lobbyists get potent weapon in campaign finance ruling from NY Times 3 Facebook settings every user should check right now by Sarah Perez Football player Tim Tebow on what should happen in your womb from Alternet Jammie Thomas fee reduced from $80,000 to [...]

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Coakley concedes in record time; Haiti violence hype

Arab-Americans feel targeted, call airport profiling ‘unconstitutional’ SPECIAL ELECTION Coakley conceded before ballots ‘counted or examined by any human being’ Pre-emptively ‘calling the race’ is not the media’s job by Bev Harris ’5 reports’ of voting irregularities in ‘at least 3′ jurisdictions from Brad Blog ‘Sidecar’ reconciliation, the public option lives again by Jane Hamsher [...]

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Innocence Project, Immigrant jail deaths cover-up

Chicago prosecutor’s office trying to smear Innocence Project TOP 4 Officials hid truth about immigrant deaths in jail from NY Times Court rulings erode spending restrictions for elections FCC Chairman: We need airwaves from govt & broadcasters Nader: One more term, Senator Dorgan, please? from Common Dreams THE ‘T’ WORD Answering Helen Thomas on why they want [...]

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Surprise! My latest article is all over other people’s sites

Late last year I was proud to discover my recent Boise Weekly article, Far from the tree, found its way to the Berman Exposed website. Rick Berman is the PR flack whose astroturfing gained notoriety in ’09. So I’ve been looking forward to hunting around the web for my latest piece, ‘Experts’ justify profiling, body scanners with familiar paranoid rhetoric, since it was [...]

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The fight on the right, Progressive inertia

Are progressives depressed or too privileged to make change? from Alternet Blackwater & Khost bombing: Is CIA deceiving Congress? by Jeremy Scahill Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change? from CJR Apartheid lawsuit goes forward against Ford, GM, IBM 2010 Census uses word ‘negro’ raising memories of Jim Crow WATCH KFC ad: Placate threatening [...]

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America’s regression, Consolidation, Wars

TOP 4 America’s regression by Glenn Greenwald Liberal Dems take aim at war funding ‘The war is in Pakistan right now‘ says Jeremy Scahill Editors reporting to sales managers at Dallas newspaper AMERICA’S BIGGEST CABLE CO. WANTS MORE POWER Why the FCC should stop Comcast NBC from PC World Commissioner Copps on merger: ‘They face [...]

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Wed Dec 2 news round-up

Feinstein and Durbin removing bloggers from shield law bill from Daily Kos We must not let Big Telecom segregate the Internet from Afro-Netizen If Congress can kill outlandish Wall St bonuses, why don’t they? from Alternet Blackwater’s Erik Prince stepping down, revealed as CIA asset from Vanity Fair Yahoo spying policy would ‘shock’ customers, according [...]

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Climategate, Lobbyists lobby for right to lobby

Lobbyists lobby White House for right to lobby from ABC News Journalist learns about union-busting the hard way from Alternet Argentine Dirty War victims cautiously embrace trials from Truthout ACORN can be paid for existing contracts, DOJ says from NY Times Op-ed: Colbert conservatism by David Sirota Pub fined $13K for WiFi copyright infringement from [...]

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Quick November 18 news round-up

Immokalee Workers vs. Publix: Backlash at Florida tomato protests KSM and MSM make quite a pair by David Swanson Naomi Klein: Dubya created ‘free-fraud zone’ in Iraq Daily Show producers, writers: We’re serious about media criticism from Poynter New study points to healthy newspaper readership from Editor & Publisher Why I’ll never buy a Kindle [...]

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Malkia Cyril on Precious, CNN paid Lou Dobbs $8m to quit

Malkia Cyril: Push changed my life, but Hollywood ‘invisibilized patriarchy’ CNN paid Lou Dobbs $8m to quit Are nuclear weapons safe in Pakistan? by Seymour Hersh Cecilia Kang explains Google Books settlement on CSPAN Taking aim at student muckrakers from NY Times PBS can market its kids show without selling out The price of free [...]

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