No mail on Saturday? Americans say OK from True/Slant TOP STORIES Van Jones: ‘I feel like I’m just getting started’ from Grist Civil rights & media justice from Prometheus Radio Ian Tomlinson family waits for answers one year after G20 protests Indebted UC students: Put down the soy lattes by Allison Kilkenny FREE PRESS The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘censorship’
Fundraising for peace – Guns at Starbucks?
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Al Gore, Antiwar Radio, censorship, Chile, Climate Change, Consortium News, David Beito, DEA, FireDogLake, Gizmodo, IMF, Iraq War, Israel Apartheid Week, Jared Polis, Johnny Depp, Kevin Zeese, military suicide, nuclear power, Open Carry Movement, Stop the Drug War, Tony Blair, Toyota, War in Afghanistan, West Memphis Three, Winter Olympics, Yes Magazine on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
TOP STORIES Toyota accused of ‘withholding documents’ Al Gore finally responds: ‘We can’t wish away climate change’ Fears drive up the price of copper Mortgage modifications and you, Part One from FDL Sixth Annual Israel Apartheid Week hits 40 cities WAR & PEACE 1000 US soldiers dead in Afghanistan, time to revive anti-war agenda Kevin [...]
National debt to grow again, Air America crashes, ACORN
Posted in News, Radio, Video, WWW, tagged Acorn, Air America Radio, Bertha Lewis, censorship, Dennis Kucinich, FCC, Future of Music, Jack & Jill Politics, Media Hacker, national debt, OK Go, press freedom, Raw Story, Ron Paul, Save the News, Truthout, Wyclef Jean on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Truthout offers exclusive video interview with ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis TOP STORIES Democrats propose increase of national debt by $2 trillion; More background Air America bankruptcy brings end to live programming Ron Paul: ‘Take out’ the CIA for dealing drugs, assassinations, war-mongering Dennis Kucinich shreds Dems for betraying promise of change from Raw Story HAITI [...]
The fight on the right, Progressive inertia
Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged Alternet, Ars Technica, Blackwater, censorship, China Smack, CJR, Dave Zirin, Jeremy Scahill, Mashable, Pearl Jam, Rachel Maddow, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Ron Paul, Tech Dirt, Yes Men on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The People Speak, Howard Zinn’s project hits TV
Posted in News, WWW, tagged ACLU, Acorn, Alberto Gonzales, Amy Goodman, Apple, censorship, Change.org, Climate Change, Consortium News, Danny Glover, Dave Zirin, Earl Ofari Hutchison, Esquire, FEP Project, Future of Music Coalition, Gary Webb, Grammy, homophobia, Howard Zinn, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, MOG, The People Speak, Viggo Mortensen, William Rivers Pitt on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The People Speak: When TV makes history by Dave Zirin ACORN inquiry finds nothing illegal, faults bad leadership Can the government ban political speech to fight terrorism? from FEP Project ACLU loses $20m donor from NY Times Take me to your climate leader by Amy Goodman Cheney for president? by William Rivers Pitt Alberto Gonzales: [...]
Eco activist charged, Campaign $ behind Afghan escalation
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Broadcasting & Cable, censorship, Committee to Protect Journalists, Conspiracy Theory, Editor and Publisher, Huffington Post, Institute for Southern Studies, Iraq War, Jesse Ventura, MSNBC, Multichannel News, press freedom, Seattle Times, The Independent, Tim DeChristopher, Twitter, WGXC on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Activist Tim DeChristopher charged for failing to pay oil bid from Huffington Post Campaign cash behind the Afghanistan escalation from Inst. for Southern Studies Morocco silences the pens of its journalists from Committee to Protect Journalists ‘Too few funds’ to rebuild Iraq, inquiry told from The Independent 75,000 copycats of US newspaper content per month [...]
Stories from Sunday Nov. 22
Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged Al Jazeera, Alan Grayson, Andy Worthington, Blather Watch, censorship, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Frank Rich, Google Wave, Keith Olbermann, Mashable, Paul Krugman, Ron Paul, Sahil Kapur, Sarah Palin, Twitter on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sarah Palin 2012 Disaster movie Wasserman Schultz accuses Republicans of politicizing breast cancer Justice Dept pointlessly gags Guantanamo lawyer by Andy Worthington UC Santa Cruz tuition hike protest ends peacefully Conservative talk goes to sleep on the weekend from Blather Watch Teen sex magazine will stay on shelves at public library Music industry inches forward [...]
Nov 12 reading
Posted in News, WWW, tagged censorship, Current TV, Euna Lee, Gawker, Glenn Greenwald, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, net neutrality, Salon on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Human Rights Watch shines a light on China’s secret ‘black jails’ Telecom experts worry about net neutrality rules Indonesian forest destruction blocked by Greenpeace Young Azerbaijan bloggers jailed Fox News declares war on liberal blogosphere from Gawker Sleazy advocacy by leading ‘liberal hawk’ by Glenn Greenwald Euna Lee of Current TV secures book deal Lou [...]
Saturday Afternoon Reading
Posted in News, WWW, tagged censorship, Climate Change, Daily Yonder, David Sirota, Democracy Now, EFF, Facebook, FOIA, Free Press, free speech, Glenn Greenwald, Grist, IPS, Matt Taibbi, Media Shift, Mediahacker, Michael Moore, Newseum, Patriot Act, PBS, Rethink Afganistan, Robert Fisk, Robert Greenwald, shield law, Slate, Stop Big Media, telecom immunity, The Nation, Twitter, Videocracy, Wikileaks, Wired on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Secret plan to undermine US dollar by Robert Fisk Roundup: Kerry-Boxer climate bill reactions from Grist Roundup: Patriot Act vote reactions from EFF Obama stalls telecom immunity lobbying records FOIA, “inter-agency” says DOJ
Friday morning
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Amy Goodman, BBC, censorship, Consortium News, Free Press, Guardian, Minnesota Independent, shield law on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Millions spent by lobby firms to oppose health care reform Pawlenty hands stimulus funds to telecom industry from Minn. Independent GE apparently ready to sell NBC Universal to Comcast Media Minutes: Product placement on TV shows from Free Press
Wednesday Reading
Posted in News, WWW, tagged censorship, FCC, Jim Emerson, Kirk Cameron, Marjorie Heins, Matt Taibbi, press freedom, Raw Story, retroactive immunity, True/Slant, Truthout on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dems who voted against public option got $19m from healthcare firms Banning a book near you from Truthout End of FCC censorship of the airwaves may come by Marjorie Heins Inside look at how Goldman Sachs lobbies Senate by Matt Taibbi