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The Supreme Court threw out the FCC’s heavy-handed sanctions on Fox and ABC but stayed mum on whether the commission’s prudish and outdated indecency policy violates free speech laws.
Posted on Jun 21, 2012
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The re-publication of the fact that Mitt Romney’s father was born in Mexico is outrageously meant to inspire distrust; some Mormons now identify as gay, yet suppress their sexuality in order to follow their religion; meanwhile, a mirror has been designed to eliminate blind spots on the road. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 16, 2012
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By David Sirota — You would think that even the most flaccid, rubber-stamp Congress might ask a few questions about the president’s “kill list,” but Congress is instead focused on making sure those who blew the whistle on it are punished.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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AP/Morry Gash
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By Robert Scheer — Voters in Wisconsin bought the tea party line because the president and his party have not been able to provide a believable alternative.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The reaction of Hillary Clinton and some others in the West has been in the full Cold War mode, denouncing the Russians as obstacles to peace. In fact, the Russians could be very useful in finding a settlement and seem to ask simply that their own interests in the Middle East be respected.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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To make inmates in Guantanamo Bay divulge information, guards play “Sesame Street” songs; studies are attempting to show that people can suffer from a clinical addiction to Facebook; meanwhile, the Catholic Church is looking into the Girl Scouts for their ties to organizations that promote safe sex. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 4, 2012
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By Steve Wasserman — From the start, Jeff Bezos wanted to “get big fast.” He was never a “small is beautiful” kind of guy.
Posted on Jun 2, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 28, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — In most of America, life for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people is getting worse—much worse.
Posted on May 28, 2012
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U.S. Navy/Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley
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By Amy Goodman — Gen. John Allen, commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals.
Posted on May 23, 2012
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Freedom of the press is threatened every day in Mexico as journalists are tortured and killed; Obama’s support of gay marriage distracts the public from the impunities in Afghanistan; press freedom is also under attack in the U.S. as journalists are arrested for protesting. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The American Prospect, a center-left magazine (for which I have occasionally written) faces a financial crisis that could soon force it to shut its doors.
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kevin dooley (CC BY 2.0)
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
Warlike values and the social mind-set they legitimize have become the primary currency of our market-driven culture, which takes as its model a Darwinian shark tank in which only the strong survive.
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AP/Mary Altaffer
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By Bill Boyarsky — By chance, the revelation of how Apple evades millions of dollars in taxes broke three days before May Day, when workers of the world traditionally protest such injustice.
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RT
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The mainstream media was bound to gag on the WikiLeaks editor’s new talk show, which is taped under house arrest, airs on Vladimir Putin’s Russia TV and features Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as its first guest. But the Times review in particular has Glenn Greenwald tweeting nonstop.
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Huffington Post
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Stop panicking. Newspapers may come and go, but rich, time-consuming journalism is not dead. In fact, David Wood spent eight months working on the 10-part series that won him and the Huffington Post the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Not exactly the celebrity blogs and Internet rehashing that once brought HuffPo scorn.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Our 16 national intelligence agencies and army of private contractors justify their existence by turning even the mundane into a potential threat. And by the time they finish, the nation will be a gulag.
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YouTube
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After bringing his “Countdown” to Current TV from MSNBC last June, host Keith Olbermann couldn’t make it work with the network Al Gore built. On Friday, Current released a statement making it clear that the parting of the ways between the two sides wasn’t exactly friendly—and that it already has a high-profile replacement.
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By Richard Reeves — Right-wingers and other fools believe that the "mainstream" media are devoted to electing lefties to public office so we can turn the United States into Sweden. In fact all we want is the campaign to go on forever.
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Invisible Children has received donations from known anti-gay groups for its Kony 2012 campaign; a U.S. soldier went on a killing spree in Afghanistan; meanwhile, our tax dollars are being used to transmit Rush Limbaugh’s show to U.S. troops abroad. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 13, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dennis Kucinich on life after Congress; Eric Boehlert of Media Matters on Rush Limbaugh; Frances Causey, director of the new documentary “Heist,” and former CIA interrogator Glenn Carle, who tells us about his struggle with institutionalized torture.
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By David Sirota — Rush Limbaugh’s mea culpa—however insincere—is significant because it is evidence that America may be setting some basic standards for political discourse.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dennis Kucinich on life after Congress; Eric Boehlert of Media Matters on Rush Limbaugh; Frances Causey, director of the new documentary “Heist,” and former CIA interrogator Glenn Carle, who tells us about his struggle with institutionalized torture.
Posted on Mar 8, 2012
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AP / Benoit Photo
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By Deanne Stillman — This is about horses and how they saved my family’s life, and how, one day, I would come to repay the favor.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues and defense contractors.
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Liberia is considering two proposals that would make consensual same-sex acts punishable with jail time; NATO refuses to get involved in the crisis in Syria; and a Jewish journalist killed by terrorists was baptized posthumously by the Mormon Church. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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By Amy Goodman — The White House is holding a gala dinner this week, honoring Iraq War veterans. Bradley Manning is an Iraq War vet who won’t be there.
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Jason Hargrove (CC-BY)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is a terrible bias in the mainstream media, which judge “moderation” almost entirely in relation to positions on social issues such as abortion or gay marriage.
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Feb 26, 2012
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By David Sirota — Financed by the Pentagon, “Act of Valor” is a new film that seeks to make us forget our past military blunders.
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AP / Nariman El-Mofty
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — As American NGO employees await trial, propagandists beat the drums of public suspicion and the military maneuvers to preserve U.S. aid.
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AP / Paul Sancya
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By Juan Cole — Politics has become a game of the super rich, but the money they donate is significant only because of the way it is spent: on TV and radio advertising.
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On this week’s “Moyers & Company,” Kathleen Hall Jamieson of FactCheck.org and FlackCheck.org says “we’re at a very, very critical time right now” and must try to block “visceral” political advertising at the local level.
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By Richard Reeves — Andrew Breitbart, the publisher of Breitbart.com and a couple of other popular websites, set the tone for a program at the University of Southern California last Wednesday by calling George Stephanopoulus of ABC News a little rat with a runny nose.
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AP / Evan Vucci
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By Chris Hedges — There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement.
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Occupy and labor activists target gay-friendly marketing, Mitt Romney’s immigration issues, Ron Paul challenges liberals, Lisa Bloom on pop culture dieting and Apple lovers take action.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Occupy and Labor activists target gay-friendly marketing, Mitt Romney’s immigration issues, Ron Paul challenges liberals, Lisa Bloom on pop culture dieting and Apple lovers take action.
Posted on Feb 3, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Richard Reeves — Reality show? What I see is an aquarium. The debates look like a tank full of exotic fish flashing their stuff for an instant at a time. You never see the whole thing, just flashes.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
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AP / Gene J. Puskar
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By Mark Heisler — Unfortunately, most people will insist they were the ones insisting this was a witch hunt all along, and believe it.
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Wednesday, Jan. 18, marked the largest online protest in the history of the Internet. Websites from large to small “went dark” in protest of proposed legislation before the U.S. House and Senate that could profoundly change the Internet.
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To protest two pieces of legislation that threaten the free and open Internet as we know it, thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, are taking themselves offline. Others, including Google, are asking users to take action. (more)
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Twitter
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Rupert Murdoch is a surprisingly good tweeter, direct and revealing in his comments, but he is also the head of a media conglomerate, so when he loses his cool and fires off a shot at “[p]iracy leader” Google, it has reverberations beyond the nail salon.
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