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ADDED Sep 5, 2010
9 Years Later, Why 9/11 Truth Still Matters
9 Years Later, Why 9/11 Truth Still Matters
by John Albanese On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld announced that an estimated $2.3 Trillion in Pentagon spending was missing -- and unaccounted for -- from the Pentagon. One day...
ADDED Sep 4, 2010
The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
by John Taylor Gatto Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there...
ADDED Mar 18, 2010
The Tragedy of the Mental Commons
The Tragedy of the Mental Commons
by Kevin Arnold. Driving to the airport to pick up a friend, I stop at a red light. My eyes wander to a bus-stop bench across the intersection. 'Norma Whitfield - Your Real-Estate...
ADDED Feb 28, 2010
Other Economies are Possible: Organizing toward an economy of cooperation and solidarity
Other Economies are Possible: Organizing toward an economy of cooperation and solidarity
By Ethan Miller Can thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects form the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism? It might seem unlikely that a...
ADDED Feb 27, 2010
Infinite Relationships: Relationships Without Bounds or Boundaries, Love Without Limits
Infinite Relationships: Relationships Without Bounds or Boundaries, Love Without Limits
This is about so-called “non-monogamous relationships,” about some of the benefits of trying out one of the alternatives to the formulaic dating/marriage/divorce model for love. Your...
ADDED Jan 21, 2010
Extra! Extra! Read the Top News that Didn't Make the News in 2009
Extra! Extra! Read the Top News that Didn't Make the News in 2009
Project Censored compiles the top 25 news stories that weren't covered by the corporate news media in 2009. 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street 2. US Schools are More Segregated...
ADDED Jan 12, 2010
Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth?
Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth?
by Paul Craig Roberts What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and...
ADDED Dec 28, 2009
Beyond Magical Thinking: How to Really Make Change Happen
Beyond Magical Thinking: How to Really Make Change Happen
By Mark Rudd. From Alternet.org Successful political movements do not spring fully formed. They require long-term, nuts-and-bolts organizing. Since the summer of 2003, I've...
ADDED Dec 26, 2009
In Search of Morale: Are Americans Too Broken for the Truth to Set Us Free?
In Search of Morale: Are Americans Too Broken for the Truth to Set Us Free?
By Bruce E. Levine "Counterpunch"-- Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a...
ADDED Nov 4, 2009
What Obama Is Up Against
What Obama Is Up Against
by: Russ Baker, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis http://www.truthout.org/11020910 The first anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election finds many of his supporters already grousing...
ADDED Sep 26, 2009
Bill Maher's New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle
Bill Maher's New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle
New Rule: If America can't get its act together, it must lose the bald eagle as our symbol and replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can't get up. As long as we're...
ADDED Sep 13, 2009
Toxic Waters in America
Toxic Waters in America
Sometimes, the mainstream press does a good job, and today's investigative feature in the New York Times serves as an excellent example of what all journalism should look like...
ADDED Sep 7, 2009
Labor Day resolution: Make Wal-Mart work for workers
Labor Day resolution: Make Wal-Mart work for workers
From The Cap Times http://host.madison.com/ct/ A new Department of Labor study shows that the retail sector is likely to see dramatic job growth in coming years. With the country still...
ADDED Sep 6, 2009
The Real Death Panels
The Real Death Panels
From The Institute for Public Accuracy www.accuracy.org More than one out of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician...
ADDED Aug 27, 2009
Where Climate Change Will Hit The Hardest
Where Climate Change Will Hit The Hardest
By Ryan Grim. HuffingtonPost.com The politics of climate change are difficult in the Senate, it's often said, because it's a regional issue: coal state senators are afraid their...
ADDED Aug 1, 2009
Former FBI Translator: Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Right Up Until 9/11
Former FBI Translator: Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Right Up Until 9/11
By George Washington. From: Washingtonsblog.com Before you hear what Sibel Edmonds has to say, you should know a little about her background.Edmonds is a former FBI...
ADDED Jul 24, 2009
The Delusion Revolution: The future we have been dreaming of is not based on reality
The Delusion Revolution: The future we have been dreaming of is not based on reality
http://www.adbusters.org THE CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS Deep in a recession and with scary ecological scenarios looming, now may be the ripest moment we’ll ever have...
ADDED Jul 17, 2009
Thinking the Unthinkable
Thinking the Unthinkable
By Tim Jackson. Adbusters.org Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. For the last five decades the pursuit of growth has been the single...
ADDED Jul 17, 2009
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand
Corporate Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege By Kevin A. Carson INTRODUCTION. Manorialism, commonly, is recognized to have been founded by robbery and usurpation; a...
ADDED Jul 13, 2009
Taking Shorter Showers Doesn't Cut It: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
Taking Shorter Showers Doesn't Cut It: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
By Derrick Jensen. Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that...
ADDED Jul 11, 2009
The Corporate Co-Opt of "Local"
The Corporate Co-Opt of "Local"
by Stacy Mitchell. From The Weekly Alibi: Some of the world's biggest corporations are brashly laying claim to the word. This new variation on corporate...
ADDED Jul 9, 2009
Watch Now: "The Future of Food"
Watch Now: "The Future of Food"
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. This well-researched documentary by...
ADDED Jul 7, 2009
The Dark Side of Climate Change
The Dark Side of Climate Change
By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. The recent narrow passage of the Waxman-Markey energy bill, better known as cap-and-trade, marks halftime in Congress' first attempt to put a lid on...
ADDED Jul 6, 2009
This Is Your Country on Drugs: How the DARE Generation Got High
This Is Your Country on Drugs: How the DARE Generation Got High
Originally Posted on: http://www.alternet.org The following is an excerpt from Ryan Grim's new book, "This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America...
ADDED Jul 2, 2009
The Great American Bubble Machine
The Great American Bubble Machine
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi On "How Goldman Sachs Has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression" The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that...
ADDED Jun 30, 2009
Watch the Latest Episode of Democracy Now!
Watch the Latest Episode of Democracy Now!
ADDED Jun 28, 2009
"You don't understand our audience": What I learned about network TV at Dateline NBC
"You don't understand our audience": What I learned about network TV at Dateline NBC
by John Hockenberry, Technology Review The most memorable reporting I've encountered on the conflict in Iraq was delivered in the form of confetti exploding out of a cardboard tube. I...
ADDED Jun 27, 2009
The Mainstream Media Has Failed Us
The Mainstream Media Has Failed Us
By Ebonmuse. From DangerousIntersection.orgI came across an article a few days ago written by John Hockenberry, an award-winning journalist who once worked for NBC’s Dateline and is now...
ADDED Jun 24, 2009
Watch "Before You Enlist!"
Watch "Before You Enlist!"
Straight talk from veterans and their family members tells what is missing from the sales pitches presented by recruiters and the military's marketing efforts. More info at...
ADDED Jun 19, 2009
Dick Cheney Only Had to Delay Things a COUPLE OF MINUTES to Reach his Long-Sought Goals
Dick Cheney Only Had to Delay Things a COUPLE OF MINUTES to Reach his Long-Sought Goals
From Washington's Blog.com:CIA director Leon Panetta told the New Yorker:When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to...
ADDED Jun 17, 2009
Net Neutrality Supporter Likely To Be Confirmed FCC Chair
Net Neutrality Supporter Likely To Be Confirmed FCC Chair
By Wendy Davis From www.mediapost.com The Senate Commerce Committee appears to be poised to confirm Julius Genachowski, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal...
ADDED Jun 16, 2009
Screen Addiction: Does the overuse of screens alter our perceptions of reality?
Screen Addiction: Does the overuse of screens alter our perceptions of reality?
By Micah White. Source: http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/blackspot_blog/screen_addiction.html Deconstructionist philosopher Avital Ronell teaches that a few generations ago European...
ADDED Jun 16, 2009
The Health Insurance Industry's Sway Over Obama's Point Man on Health Care Reform
The Health Insurance Industry's Sway Over Obama's Point Man on Health Care Reform
By Mike Dennison of The Montana Standard http://www.mtstandard.com HELENA — As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health-reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he's also become a...
ADDED Jun 15, 2009
Barack Obama vs. Harriet and Louise
Barack Obama vs. Harriet and Louise
It may not be as exciting as the Thrilla in Manila, but its outcome will have far more impact on the lives of tens of millions of families across the country. The story is...
ADDED Jun 15, 2009
Iran's Political Coup
Iran's Political Coup
If the reports coming out of Tehran about an electoral coup are sustained, then Iran has entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolution history. One characteristic that has always...
ADDED Jun 10, 2009
Do You Really Think Arabs in the Middle East Clapped for Obama's Speech?
Do You Really Think Arabs in the Middle East Clapped for Obama's Speech?
Did they play Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, Guantanamo or the dozens of secret sites where we hold thousands of...
ADDED Jun 8, 2009
25 House Progressives Can End the Wars
25 House Progressives Can End the Wars
On Monday, we said just 40 House Progressives could end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan (Af/Pak) by opposing the Pentagon's demand for another $95 billion. That's because all...
ADDED May 21, 2009
Civil Libertarian Rips Obama's Speech: All Bells And Whistles
Civil Libertarian Rips Obama's Speech: All Bells And Whistles
In an interview with the Huffington Post shortly after Obama concluded his remarks at the National Archives, Ratner expressed disappointment and even a tinge of anger at the approach the...
ADDED May 18, 2009
Like Iraq, the "Facts" Regarding 9/11 Were "Fixed Around the Policy"
Like Iraq, the "Facts" Regarding 9/11 Were "Fixed Around the Policy"
From: Washingtonsblog.com Three facts show that the government "fixed the facts" regarding 9/11 around a policy decision to exonerate the government from any blame whatsoever.1...
ADDED May 17, 2009
Ban Fast Food Near Schools
Ban Fast Food Near Schools
By Micah White. From: http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/blackspot_blog/ban_fast_food_near_schools.html I was recently driving past a public high school during its lunch break when I...
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