Three great videos from this week

Antiwar Radio interviews white house correspondent Helen Thomas Proof the US government ‘is owned by’ corporations from The Young Turks Ralph Nader on filibusters, credit reform & economic fixes from Democracy Now Plus: SNL all-stars reunite to support new consumer financial protections Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell And: Michael Moore tells Sahil [...]

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Kill more civilians – Fracking – Jobs bill

Republicans help US Senate pass jobs bill from The Hill TOP STORIES Docs show Congress knew more about CIA rendition, secret detention & torture Will someone please arrest Bush, Cheney as they meet for 1st time on Friday? The flailing falsehoods of America’s war criminals by Glenn Greenwald Why so little attention to Vernon Hunter, [...]

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Corporate takeover of democracy – US national debt

Corporate welfare roulette by Jim Hightower Chomsky on corporate takeover of US democracy from In These Times Kucinich vs. Greenwald on campaign finance from Democracy Now Time for Wall St to earn back America’s trust by Elizabeth Warren Goldman Sachs made billions by pushing AIG to bankruptcy Reid’s updated jobs bill tosses ‘pathetic’ corporate tax [...]

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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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How could anyone want these guys to get more powerful?

MEDIA CONSOLIDATION & THE PUBLIC INTEREST House effort urges DOJ & FCC to block Comcast acquisition of NBC-U Netflix warns Comcast-NBC merger could hurt open Internet Public interest groups warn Comcast takeover is anticompetitive Comcast-NBC merger no sure thing from Stop Big Media TOP STORIES Will George W Bush be next to appear before UK’s [...]

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Jon Stewart cooks Raw Story, Dial Up Rocks

TOP STORIES Obama wants TARP funds for small businesses 5 ways the Tea Party could fail from National Journal Elliot Spitzer’s redemption strategy from Daily Beast Daniel Ellsberg documentary attracts wide audience DEMOCRACY & CAMPAIGN CASH Bill Moyers: ‘Two parties, equal opportunity hypocrites’ Lobbyists retreat but never surrender from Truthout Lawrence Lessig: How to get [...]

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The future of media, Colbert, The latest Watergate

TOP STORIES Jerk or genius, TV’s Stephen Colbert boosts US Remembering ‘Kvetcher in the Rye’ JD Salinger by Greg Palast ACORN mounts campaign to ‘sting the stinger’ by Daniel Tencer Rahm Emanuel will really, really not like hosting this mental disabilities panel CORPORATE POWER How corporations secretly move millions to fund political ads by Brad [...]

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Howard Zinn tribute, Obama promises to end Iraq War

Howard Zinn, dissident historian, dead at 87 TOP STORIES Iraq War ending, all troops coming home: Obama Did Justice Alito ‘mouth off’ to Obama during speech? Idaho Public Television faces loss of entire state funding The ‘Ellie Light’ letter-to-the-editor mystery gets weirder BACK & FORTH RIAA offers to settle Jammie Thomas case for $25K Settlement [...]

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Democracy Now reports from Haiti

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Stories I wrote up for Raw Story on Sunday

Karen Hughes, the former George W. Bush campaign director, swiped at President Obama, and told NBC that her former boss rescued the economy. Looks like maybe the motivational speaking tour needs a kick-start. Then again, GWB could be busy putting his Katrina-style leadership to work helping the people of Haiti. He warned NBC viewers “shysters [...]

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Haiti earthquake: Truths buried beneath ‘disaster porn’

Ansel Herz, US journalist on the ground in Haiti, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer As aid efforts flounder, Haitians rely on each other by Ansel Herz Exiled in S. Africa, former president Aristide wants to return from Democracy Now IMF leverages crisis, offering loans with neoliberal conditions from The Nation Naomi Klein: Stop disaster capitalists before [...]

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Action News: Net neutrality, Dubya instead of Moyers?

Losing the Internet as we know it by Megan Tady  CLICK HERE TO FILE NOW! TOP STORIES Tell PBS: Don’t abandon hard-hitting journalism from FAIR White Power USA: The rise of right-wing militias from Democracy Now! 64 new food rules for better health by Michael Pollan Cops can arrest you for filming them & Police [...]

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StoryCorps featured on Democracy Now!

Social history project records ordinary people’s stories from Democracy Now Senator Specter looks to revive 9/11 suits against Saudis The joys of airstrikes and anonymity by Glenn Greenwald Why did Obama kill Johnsen nomination? from FireDogLake 10 news media content trends to watch in 2010 from Mashable

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Round-up of global protests, Tech headlines

Andy Worthington: The human cost of Guantanamo from Truthout TOP 4 Supreme Court tosses out ruling to release torture photos Spitzer on Democracy Now: Geithner, Bernanke ‘complicit’ Dubya and Blair ‘misled public’ ‘could end up on trial’ New white house press pool rotation sparks debate from Politico PROTESTS AROUND THE GLOBE 20,000 climate activists march [...]

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Video Highlights

Bill Moyers Journal Oct 9, 2009 Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy. WATCH HERE Democracy Now Feb 3, 2009 Amy Goodman interviews [...]

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Saturday Afternoon Reading

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

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Amy Goodman interview on Listen Up NW

Executive Producer Yuko Kodama included a few questions from my extended Amy Goodman interview on the latest Listen Up NW show, distributed by Reclaim the Media. Amy Goodman is a host and producer of the daily news program Democracy Now. You can download or listen to my full interview with her by clicking HERE.

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The future of relevant cable access

Download or stream HERE the Digital Crossroads originally airing 11/14/08. The Alliance for Community Media West held its annual conference in Denver, Colorado in late October. Denver Open Media hosted the festivities. Digital Crossroads takes you there, with clips recorded on site. Today’s show is an examination of the relevance of community media and the [...]

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Digital Crossroads is back!

Digital Crossroads is back. Hosted by Radioactive Gavin with headlines, clips and original interviews focusing on community media, grassroots activists and government officials. LISTEN to or DOWNLOAD the pilot. Pilot features interviews from the 2008 Free Press Conference on media reform. Dennis Moynihan of Democracy Now! and Free Speech TV. Joe Torres of Free Press. [...]

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In Minneapolis… Day 2

The second day, Friday, I was up pretty early helping out with Free Speech TV. I ran sound in their amazing and fancy satellite truck. The opening speakers represented a solid mix of viewpoints, with Yolanda Hippensteele, Josh Silver and Robert McChesney (all of Free Press) introducing Adriene Maree Brown from Ruckus Society (who was [...]

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