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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Rethinking independent voters – Unions bash Dems

THE US POLITICAL SYSTEM Rethinking independent voters from Truthout 80% surveyed say Congress serves special interests George Lakoff: ‘Rational reason’ doesn’t work in US politics The US political system ‘sucks’ says John Podesta, Center for American Progress ELECTIONS 2010 Will US Senate races be driven by money or issues? 1 in 10 Republicans calling it [...]

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What your government is doing with your money

Laura Flanders: Lifting the veil on US troops in Pakistan CIA drones and Bob Gates’ visit to Pakistan from Extraordinary Edition Republican stimulus foes happy to lobby for pork projects How much will nuclear cost US citizens? from Grist 2 ex-employees say Blackwater billed US govt for prostitute Blackwater contractors ordered out of Iraq from [...]

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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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Kucinich jobs plan, Failures in Haiti coverage, ACTA

TOP STORIES After 34 years, plainspoken Justice Stevens gets louder from NY Times Kucinich: Retirement program would create 1 million jobs from Raw Story K Street rushing to get its slice of jobs bill before Obama’s spending freeze ProPublica Super Bowl Blitz: Which Congressmen are getting perks? HAITI LATEST Must-see TV makes bad journalism: Failures [...]

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State of the corporate union, Magical Mystery Chambers

TOP STORIES Candidate Obama criticized McCain’s spending freeze idea by Sahil Kapur Paul Krugman: Obama spending freeze ‘appalling on every level’ Comcast, I surrender from Tech Crunch CEO of nonprofit Center for Missing & Exploited Children paid $1.3M salary JOURNALISM BUSINESS Arianna Huffington’s journalism charity helps nobody but herself from Gawker Guardian UK editor hits [...]

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National debt to grow again, Air America crashes, ACORN

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 [...]

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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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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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Global climate editorial, McCaffrey still at it

56 papers in 45 countries publish joint editorial from Editor & Publisher Joint climate editorial carried by global newspapers; How it came about Gen. McCaffrey still not disclosing profit motives on MSNBC Op-Ed: Entitled to their own ‘facts’? from Truthout Mediacom seeks to bypass municipal agreement in Dubuque Small and local wins the race: Manhattan [...]

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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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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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Indymedia and EFF fight back against bogus subpoena

EFF, Indymedia successfully fight back against government Request for silence crossed constitutional bounds from Truthout Dubya, Obama Justice departments: Secret subpoena for Indymedia visitor logs Watchdog slams DOJ demand for visitor logs, gag order

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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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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 [...]

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Monday night news

Columbus Day: The myth of ‘America’ by Dahr Jamail A Columbus Day meditation by Thom Hartmann Israel will not allow war crime trials over Gaza from AFP Honduras: Coup troops raid TV station from Narco News

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Sunday News Catching Up

Interview: Medea Benjamin talks Afghan trip with Scott Horton Democrats protecting Bush-era criminal activities by Glenn Greenwald Sibel Edmonds bombshell buried in the blogosphere? from Antiwar Radio Spending bill would block release of torture photos from Truthout

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Wednesday Reading

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

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Tuesday Night Reading

Pentagon spokesman was Bush domestic propaganda official from Raw Story ACORN legislation could defund top contractors from Project on Govt. Oversight Drowning out the right-wing noise machine by Megan Tady Broad new FBI surveillance rules are unconstitutional from ACLU

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NEW PROJECT Read What I’m Reading

I get frustrated reading interesting news stories and then doing nothing with them. So partly to clean up my browsers full of tabs and mainly to try and encourage my friends (and strangers, too, I guess) to read more stories that matter I’m going to start blogging notes about the news I’m reading. These will [...]

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