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Ear to the Ground: Catch Up on the News With Larry’s List: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List

Cartoons: There Can Be Only One

Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

A/V Booth: Hedges and Friends Debate Illusion, Conservatism and 9/11

Reports: Lipstick on a Rogue

A/V Booth: ‘Modern Combat 3’—We Can Hardly Wait

Cartoons: Dobbs’ Nightmare

Reports: Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

Ear to the Ground: Rupert Murdoch vs. Google (and Reality)

Reports: We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Arts and Culture: Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: The Party of Choice

Ear to the Ground: Is CNN the Least Trusted Name in News?

Arts and Culture: Disney Offers Refund for Baby Bupkis

Reports: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Truthdig Podcast: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Cartoons: Balloon Boy

Reports: Anything to Be on TV

Reports: A Down-and-Out Route for Rush

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Reports: A Nobel for Defeating Cheneyism

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Goes to War

Ear to the Ground: ‘Viva Berlusconi’? Not So Much

Ear to the Ground: How Fox News Rigs Polls

Reports: Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: Polanski Brings Out the Worst in Hollywood

Reports: Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

Ear to the Ground: And Now, a Word About ‘Czar’ Mythology

Ear to the Ground: 2 Honduran Media Outlets Silenced

Reports: The War on Language

Ear to the Ground: William Safire Dead at 79

Reports: The Truth About Two Racists—Beck and Limbaugh

Reports: Now, Where Was I?

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Arts and Culture: China at Odds With WTO Over Media Import Rules

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Bailout? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Truthdig Podcast: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Ear to the Ground: Is Rep. Joe Wilson Winning?

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Reports: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Reports: Distorting the Voice of the People

Arts and Culture: Disney Grabs Marvel: Can Mickey and Wolverine Get Along?

Ear to the Ground: Gideon Levy: Bad Journalism Is a Gift to Occupation

A/V Booth: Ted Kennedy in Pictures

Reports: Status Quo Is Not an Option

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 3

Ear to the Ground: Israel Furious at Organ Harvesting Accusation

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

Ear to the Ground: Murdoch’s Money Misfortune

Arts and Culture: A Bomb in Every Issue

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Reports: The Politics of the Jackboot

Reports: The Equal Rites Awards, 2009

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nothing Has Changed’ for Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Afghan News Outlets to Be Censored on Election Day

Reports: Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds

Arts and Culture: Chris Hedges on Alex S. Jones’ ‘Losing the News’

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 2

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 1

A/V Booth: CNN Falsely Labels Public Option ‘Unpopular’

Reports: Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America’s Dirty Work

Reports: Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Ear to the Ground: It Ain’t Over Till the Good Lady Gets Justice

Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Reports: So Much for the Promised Land

Arts and Culture: Corporate Parents Agreed to Censor Olbermann and O’Reilly

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

Arts and Culture: Book Excerpt: ‘Empire of Illusion’

Arts and Culture: Hedges Sounds Off on ‘Empire’

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Reports: Health Plan: Ask ‘What,’ Not ‘When’

Reports: What Really Causes Autism? Thousands of Parents Still Blame Vaccines

Reports: When Trust and Media Were One

Reports: Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired

Reports: Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried

Reports: The Man in the Mirror

Cartoons: Storm

Reports: Party of Franken, Party of Palin

Reports: Palin the Pretender

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Reports: Sexism and Sarah Palin

Reports: A Trashing as Old as Suffrage

Reports: Don’t Cry for Me, Alaska

A/V Booth: Rep. Peter King Slams Media’s MJ Mania, Intensifies Mania in So Doing

Reports: The Age of Paine

Cartoons: 24-Week News Cycle

Ear to the Ground: Washington Post Makes a Really Bad Decision

Reports: The Battle Over the Burqa

Reports: Designer Vaginas: Is Female Circumcision Coming Out of the Closet?

Reports: Political Foolishness and Teen Pregnancy

Cartoons: Still Selling

Reports: The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Reports: Undo the Coup

Ear to the Ground: Obama Overload?

Reports: The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

A/V Booth: Brüno Blitzes Conan O’Brien

Reports: Journalism in the Twitter Era

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Arts and Culture: Ed McMahon Was an Everyman Till the End

Reports: America’s History, Now on YouTube

Ear to the Ground: Iran Arrests Hundreds, Admits Vote Errors

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Reports: Learning to Live With the Devil We Know

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Reports: Obama and the Politics of Short Memories

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ Skewers New York Times

Reports: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

Reports: Why So Scared of a Public Plan?

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Cartoons: Subscription

Arts and Culture: Dobbs Takes a Dive

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

A/V Booth: O’Reilly: ‘If I Could Get My Hands on Tiller ... ’

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Chinese Media Sour on North Korea

Reports: Health Care Reform’s Pulse Is Fading

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Reports: Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

Reports: Combating Epidemic Ignorance

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Big U.S. Papers Take a Big Hit

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Reports: Stop Thinking About Yesterday’s Health Care Debate

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Pirate Bay Founders Get Jail Time

Reports: Up, Up and Away: The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Cartoons: Running on Fumes

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Reports: Resist or Become Serfs

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Reports: Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’

Truthdig Podcast: Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’

Reports: Where’s the Outrage Over Workers Getting the Shaft?

Reports: Newspapers’ Self-Inflicted Wounds

Arts and Culture: NPR Is Booming

A/V Booth: ‘The American Way of War’ in 2009

Reports: Human Rights Defenders Have It Tough in the Mideast

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Reports: The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

Reports: Put Single-Payer on the Table

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Scores a Hit With Talk-Show Diplomacy

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

A/V Booth: Jon Stewart Is Mad as Hell

Reports: Rushing Toward Irrelevance

Ear to the Ground: Friends In High-Tech Places

A/V Booth: Are Video Games Violent Enough?

Ear to the Ground: Gamer Says Microsoft Banned Her for Being Openly Gay

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Truthdig Podcast: Coping With Corporate Media

Arts and Culture: Hollywood Battles Swedish Pirates

Reports: Addicted to Fake Outrage

Ear to the Ground: PR Worries Stalled Release of Gitmo Inmates

Reports: Where’s the Top Gun?

Ear to the Ground: TV News Makes TV Look Bad

Reports: In Washington, Public Policy and Private Wealth Are Hopelessly Tangled

Ear to the Ground: The Most Trusted Name in News Just Stole Your Computer

Reports: GOP Revs Up the Spin on Stimulus

Reports: Dear Wall Street

Reports: It’s Not Going to Be OK

Reports: Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Reports: America Faces the Music in Davos

Arts and Culture: Mark Fischer on Copyright in the Digital Age

A/V Booth: Colbert Turns O’Reilly Against Himself

Reports: Stimulus Brings on a Family Feud

Arts and Culture: Protecting the Homeland From Homeland Security

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Ear to the Ground: Gaza Ad Stirs Controversy Across the Pond

Cartoons: Too Much Information

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Reports: The Gulf Between Hope and Change

Reports: Obama Must Halt America’s Moral Decline

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