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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 our democracy back from DN!

Donors reward Dems who pushed public option from Huff Po

FOREIGN POLICY & TERRORISM

Extraordinary Edition on US secret prisons in Afghanistan

Bush, Cheney and the great espace by William Rivers Pitt

Rep. Ron Paul: Stay out of Yemen! from Antiwar.com

The lynch mob mentality by Glenn Greenwald

MEDIA POLITICS

Times Square billboard from NORML denied by CBS

Focus on the Family buys more Super Bowl ad time

Can Obama overcome right-wing talk radio? by Sue Wilson

Paul Krugman & media deficit hawks from FAIR

JOURNALISM & THE FREE PRESS

New era for press after Citizens United from CJR

Ombudsman: ‘Critics are right’ NPR disrespected Zinn

O’Reilly blames Hannity, Beck for Fox News narrative

3rd Circuit Court hands down conflicting student speech ruling

TECHNOLOGY & PRIVACY

FBI wants records kept of websites visited from CNET

What do behavioral targeters know about you? from GigaOm

Springsteen demands ASCAP remove his name from lawsuit

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November 10th news headlines

Global e-waste dumping pollution

Google bringing free WiFi to 47 U.S. airports, $ for charity

Dirty truth about rural broadband from Free Press

Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater approved payoffs of Iraqi officials

New evidence of Pharma’s sweetheart deal from New Republic

Google says Rupert Murdoch can go ahead and take off stories

Dalai Lama sticks his thumb in the Dragon’s eye

Blaming the workers by Dave Lindorff

NY Times publishes crowd-funded science article

Denying responsibility for the wars one cheers on by Glenn Greenwald

Former Sierra Club enviro Mike McGinn wins Seattle mayor race

How the US funds the Taliban from The Nation

Video shows Taliban with US weapons

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Monday night news to read

Media Democracy Coalition’s Hannah Miller rallies against blocked political speech

Supreme Court likely to allow more corporate money in politics

Administration uses ‘State Secrets’ clause to block warrantless wiretap cases

Court rules victim of extraordinary rendition can’t sue from Raw Story

Pirate Cat Radio fined $10,000: East-Bay Express and SF Weekly

Is global warming a corporate fraud? from Project Censored

Real reason climate bill is going to suck from Grist

Palestinians criticize US u-turn on settlements

Detroit Free Press takes editorial cues from advertisers

Congress should not reject the Goldstone Report from Common Dreams

Where are the anti-war demonstrators? from Common Dreams

What Obama is up against from Truthout

MPAA piracy facts unchecked on 60 Minutes

MPAA press release urges FCC to protect content

Bit Torrent’s new peer-to-peer software throttles itself

Nielsen says DTV switch was successful

Paramount says National Broadband Plan should stop Star Trek pirates

Jerry Brown’s spokesman resigns after taping calls

AP admits Cheney equivocated to the FBI

We need a Son of Sam law for coporations from True/Slant

Comcast close to gaining NBC Universal

Brazil encourages competing hackers to crack e-voting terminals

Sen. Cantwell not sure why Geithner still has a job

Service providers in UK ‘should have legal obligation on rural broadband’

Three’s company by Ross Douthat

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