January 2011
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Made in the USA: Tear Gas, Tanks, Helicopters,... →
“The US has given billion dollars of military aid to Egypt over the last decades. Lockheed Martin, Boeing and General Electric have provided tanks, missiles, engines and more to the Mubarak regime…”
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Resolution Calling to Amend the Constitution... →
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Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
AJE ties for first with BBCNews for serious, intelligent, in-depth, international broadcast journalism and documentary film, in my humble opinion. Makes CNN look like tabloid fluff. Americans should have a choice, but cable TV operators continue to censor it.
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Media marvel at Obama's move to the right →
“With increasing vehemence since the midterm elections, pundits and journalists have recommended Barack Obama move to the right—and now are citing recent polling to suggest that the president has benefited from following their advice. But there is little evidence that Obama’s current approval ratings have anything to do with a rightward shift, and the entire conversation...
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The Long Shadow of Chernobyl [Video] →
In all, 439 nuclear reactors are running in 31 countries, producing an amount of radioactive sludge every year that can fill a football field at 1.5m depth and remain toxic for 200,000 years, or 6000 generations. Uranium mines are expected to be exhausted by 2100 anyway. Oh, and accidents and leaks tend to happen, causing irrevocable damage to people and ecosystems. Time to end the nuclear energy...
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The US and Egypt [Video] →
The USA gives Egypt $2billion a year in aid, just a bit less than it gives Israel. What does the Obama administration say about supporting violent repression and torture by Egyptian police forces? A must watch interview.
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"The Competition Myth" by Paul Krugman →
“Talking about “competitiveness” as a goal is fundamentally misleading… [and] based on the false idea that what’s good for corporations is good for America.”
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Study claims 100 percent renewable energy possible... →
New research has shown that it is possible and affordable for the world to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030
Blocking Aristide's Return to Haiti Shows Lack of... →
Weisbrot: Comparing Duvalier and Aristide’s treatment really say everything about Washington’s policy toward Haiti, and our government’s respect for democracy in that country and in the region.
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Meet the New Media Monopoly: A Completely New... →
With the Comcast takeover, one company will soon account for 20 percent of all TV viewing hours in America.
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Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk [video] →
“Not only do we continue to tell and retell the same tired stories, but we are now doing so with a frenzy and a fury that frankly verges on camp.”
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"Reversing 'Citizens United'" by Katrina vanden... →
Can American democracy beat back a corporate takeover?
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Study: Many US college students not learning to... →
“An unprecedented study that followed several thousand undergraduates through four years of college found that large numbers didn’t learn the critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication skills that are widely assumed to be at the core of a college education…Many of the students graduated without knowing how to sift fact from opinion, make a clear written...
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Big Media in USA Gets a Whole Lot Bigger →
Al Franken: “”With approval of this [NBC-Comcast] merger, the FCC has given a single media conglomerate unprecedented control over the flow of information in America. This will ultimately mean higher cable and Internet bills, fewer independent voices in the media and less freedom of choice for all American consumers.”
"The Rise of the New Global Elite" by Chrystia... →
Freeland: The rich of today are different than the rich of yesterday
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Ike was right all along: The danger of the... →
“Adjusted for inflation, US national security spending has more than doubled since Eisenhower left office.”
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Eisenhower warns of a "military-industrial... →
50 years ago today: President Eisenhower’s classic speech warning of growing economic interest in war and what to do about it. Hard to believe this was what Republicans used to sound like.
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Lockheed Martin and the Military-Industrial... →
‘January 17th marks the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower’s famous speech on the military-industrial complex. William Hartung, director of the New America Foundation’s Arms and Security Initiative, discusses the history of Lockheed Martin—the nation’s largest weapons contractor.’
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"2011: A Brave New Dystopia" by Chris Hedges →
“The façade is crumbling.”
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The Worst News Stories of 2010 →
My fave is probably the “Am-I-Reading-The-Onion Headline Writing Award”
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Best of CounterSpin 2010 [Radio] | Fairness and... →
The biggest omissions, confusions, and lies reported by US corporate news media in 2010 (28min). The part about Afghan women and the war is particularly good.
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Bringing the 'Bush Six' to justice →
“Friday’s filing provides Judge Velasco with the legal framework for the prosecution of government lawyers – a prosecution that last took place during the Nuremberg trials”
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Leaked EPA Memos May Explain Massive Bee Die-Off →
Leaked government documents lead beekeepers to blame the widespread collapse of honeybee colonies on Bayer pesticides.