Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged Amy Goodman, Andrew Romanoff, Campus Progress, Comcast, Common Cause, Consortium News, Daniel Ellsberg, Huffington Post, net neutrality, Project Censored, propaganda, Ray McGovern, Robert Parry, SPLC, Truthdig, War in Iraq, Wikileaks on April 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Collateral murder in Iraq by Amy Goodman
Fox continues CBS, ABC, CNN propaganda to attack Iran from Project Censored
Ray McGovern’s letter to Robert Parry on Daniel Ellsberg
University paper battles restrictive media policy from SPLC
Apologist says now isn’t ‘right time’ for cracking down on unpaid internships
Comcast court victory a major setback to net neutrality efforts
Andrew Romanoff: Fighting for net neutrality from Huffington Post
Posted in News, WWW, tagged abstinence-only education, Alternet, Amy Goodman, bank bailout, campaign finance reform, Citizens United, Climate Change, Common Dreams, David Swanson, Elizabeth Warren, Fox News, George Lakoff, Google, Greenpeace, Huffington Post, Josh Silver, marijuana, Mediaite, Naomi Wolf, press freedom, propaganda, Stephen C Webster, stimulus, student loans, Supreme Court, Tea Party, True/Slant, Truthdig, Truthout, Verizon on March 31, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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 lobbyists fought for very thing they’re now against
Supreme Court hands victory to mutual fund industry
Student loans: Govt. is now officially in the banking business
TECHNOLOGY POLITICS
Google goes evil, gets in bed with Verizon by Josh Silver
PR firm behind propaganda videos given $25M stimulus contract
Google says China’s ‘great firewall’ blocked search
Fox News has best quarter in network history from Mediaite
POLITICAL INTRIGUE
Thanks health bill, for $250M back to abstinence-only education
Naomi Wolf thinks Tea Parties help fight fascism from Alternet
Brown vs. Democracy in California by George Lakoff
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Antiwar.com, Barack Obama, gay rights, Global Research, propaganda, Raw Story, Sarah Palin, SNL, Tea Party on February 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »
"Energy, Budget Cuts, Tax, Lift American Spirits"
Palin reads cheat notes from her palm on Tea Party stage
SNL mocks Fox News on ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’
Iran arrests 7 ‘spies’ tied to US-funded radio station
In response to this story, one Raw commenter insisted the site was covering-up the following news stories:
Iran accepts third party enrichment deal terms from Antiwar.com
Iranian scientist assassinated as US steps up war threats
Obama spreads war flames in Middle East from Global Research
I regularly link to news from Antiwar.com on Raw Story, and found both of these Global Research pieces to be thought-provoking. If only the commenter wasn’t anonymous, I could let them know Raw only schedules me once a week, making it difficult for me to conspire to cover anything up, or cover much of anything for that matter…
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Absolute Radio UK, Acorn, Adam Carolla, App Rising, e-voting, FCC, hemp, Huffington Post, iLike, Infinite Dial, Jared Polis, Lala, Liz Cheney, marijuana, Media Shift, National Security Letter, net neutrality, propaganda, Public Knowledge, public media, Rachel Maddow, Raw Story, Save the Internet, Sequoia, TechDirt, torture music, Westword, white spaces on October 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Chronic case of denial
Pentagon used psyops on US public from Raw Story
Musicians demand info on their music used for torture
AT&T staff told to complain about net neutrality to FCC
Oops: Sequoia reveals e-voting code from Tech Dirt
Rep. Polis narrowly avoids net neutrality disaster
Broadband stimulus has failed to date from App Rising
Rachel Maddow challenges Liz Cheney: be on my show
New public media models examined from Media Shift
Infinite Dial calls Absolute Radio UK ‘most innovative in the world’
First public white spaces broadband network trial launch in Virginia: 1 2
FBI can continue to gag recipient of National Security Letter
Propaganda now on sale at AT&T store from Public Knowledge
AT&T boss asks employees to fake it from Save the Internet
Over 200,000 calls to Congress in favor of health reform in 1 day
Google partners with iLike and Lala for new music service
Pentagon instructs officials to cancel nonexistent ACORN contracts
Adam Carolla podcast credited for new radio content trend
Denver Westword hiring marijuana critic is national news!
Medical marijuana applicants in Colorado increasing
Hemp: Legalize it and I will industrialize it from Huff Po
Posted in News, WWW, tagged ACLU, Ars Technica, CJR, FCC, Grist, Megan Tady, net neutrality, NY Times, press freedom, propaganda, Save the News, Truthout on September 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
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
Posted in Breathing, News, Radio, Video, WWW, tagged Al Jazeera, Belen Fernandez, Boise Community Radio, Committee to Protect Journalists, Dennis Kucinich, Digital Crossroads, FAIR, Global Voices Online, Guerrilla Radio, Haaretz, human rights, Human Rights Watch, Indypendent, Jimmy Carter, Joe the Plumber, John Ging, Listening Post, Livestation, New York Times, Ocote Soul Sounds, Ooah, Palestinian media, press freedom, propaganda, Radio Free Moscow, Radioactive Gavin, Robert Fisk, Sameh Habeb, Sameh Habeeb, Shane Bauer, Stephen Lendman, The Tasteful Nudes, Vittorio Arrigoni, Wake Up America, white phosphorus, Zahra Hankir on January 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
In an unusual live Wednesday morning broadcast, I finally produced the 2nd episode of Digital Crossroads of the year. I’ve been reading and highlighting and writing about Gaza. This show is about thinking critically before you trust what you read in the news.
Funeral at UN school struck by Israel
Below you can click to listen to the 30-minute show as it aired on Boise Community Radio and Radio Free Moscow. If you make it all the way through the show, please check out the additional 10 minutes I did live this morning on RadioBoise.org covering Obama’s support from the “defense lobby” as well as reports inside Gaza. Hear from Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian human rights activist, and from Sameh Habeb, a Palestinian photographer. More links and photos after the jump.
To download or stream the show, click here- Gaza: Wake Up America (mp3)
Check out an additional 10 minutes here- DC 2009 B-Side (mp3)
In a story published Jan. 9th by Alternet from New America Media, Shane Bauer covers “What You’d Know About Israel if you Watched Al Jazeera TV.”
He writes, the 350 reporters who descended on Israel when the conflict began are stuck at the border between Israel and Gaza. Instead of giving their viewers up-close pictorial evidence of what is occurring in Gaza, television networks have been restricted to showing their viewers plumes of smoke as they rise in the distance.
“There is nowhere safe in Gaza,” an enraged John Ging, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza told Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros in front of the Al Shifa hospital Thursday. Those words came after the Israeli Defense Forces bombed a UN school that was being used as a refuge. Later in the day, a second UN school was struck by the Israelis, killing at least 40. Ging insisted, “Everyone here is terrorized and traumatized and they have the right to be because there is no safe haven… This violence needs to stop now. Neither side can wait for the other to stop first.”
Meanwhile the world’s only live coverage of the tragedy is kept away from American eyes. While Al Jazeera English competes with CNN and BBC as one of the largest networks in the world, no major American cable provider has been willing to carry the channel since it launched in 2006. But Al Jazeera is finding its way around the problem. Today, Americans can download Livestation, a free program that wil let viewers watch Al Jazeera English and other international networks.
Here’s a timeline looking back at news you likely haven’t seen if you have depended on US network TV and corporate newspapers over the past 2 weeks…
Posted in News, Radio, WWW, tagged Aasif Mandvi, Adrian Quesada, BBC, Boise Community Radio, Center for Media and Democracy, community radio, Diane Farsetta, Digital Crossroads, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ernest Gonzales, fake news, FCC, GAO, Indecision 2008, Jon Stewart, Jonathan Adelstein, Martin Eisenstadt, Mike Bonanno, Miller Gallery, Mordecai Briemberg, Ocote Soul Sounds, Ooah, Pew Research Center, propaganda, Radio Free Moscow, Radioactive Gavin, Robert Jensen, Robert Lichter, Robert Niles, Savitri Durkee, Seriously Free Speech Committee, SourceWatch, Studio for Creative Inquiry, The Daily Show, The Onion, The Tasteful Nudes, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, VNRs, Wells Tower, Wikipedia, Yes Men on January 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The first Digital Crossroads of the year premiered Monday evening on Boise Community Radio. Listen to host and producer Radioactive Gavin focus on Fake News and Propaganda.
Download or stream the entire 30-minute program by clicking here… Digital Crossroads Fake News and Propaganda.
To view the spoof New York Times, go HERE.
If you want to hear the entire interview with Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men, click HERE.
To view the Indecision 2008 video, go HERE.
Music on the show is used with permission from Ooah, The Tasteful Nudes, Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada, and Ernest Gonzales.
Here is the transcript for Digital Crossroads 2009 Episode 1:
Posted in Radio, tagged Craig Aaron, FCC, Free Press, Free Speech TV, LPFM, net neutrality, propaganda on May 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Craig Aaron, Communications Director of Free Press, was a guest on my radio show Friday May 30th.
LISTEN HERE to the interview on its own. Or LISTEN HERE to the interview within the context of the entire show, which focused more broadly on international press freedom.
Time flies when two verbose media activists get chattin’… Craig and I cover:
Resolution of Disapproval (regarding FCC ownership regulations)
Local Community Radio Act (regarding expansion of Low-Power FM licenses)
Internet Freedom Preservation Act (regarding network neutrality)
Pentagon propaganda pundits
and the Media Reform Conference… June 6-8 in Minneapolis… which you can tune into live as it happens on the Free Press website and on Free Speech TV.
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Nancy Snow, propaganda on May 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Reclaim the Media, Seattle-based non-profit media activist group, has posted my Op-Ed on Pentagon propaganda. It was published in print only by Cooper Point Journal, the student newspaper of Evergreen State College, on Thursday May 21.
Read the article HERE.
For more information on propaganda in the United States, read up on the work of Nancy Snow.
Radioactive Gavin
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