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Indy Media added local news on Sep 5, 2010
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 later, on 9/11, the story also disappeared, along...
Indy Media added local news on Sep 4, 2010
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 were ways to find out if you wanted to...
Indy Media added local news on Mar 18, 2010
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 Connection.' Wham. Before I even have time to react...
Indy Media added local news on Feb 28, 2010
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 motley array of initiatives such as worker...
Indy Media added local news on Feb 27, 2010
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 response to this article will probably be similar to...
Indy Media added local news on Jan 21, 2010
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 Today than in the 1950s
Indy Media added local news on Jan 12, 2010
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 implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far...
Indy Media added local news on Dec 28, 2009
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 crisscrossed the country speaking at colleges and theaters...
Indy Media added local news on Dec 26, 2009
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 demoralization happened in the United States? Do some...
Indy Media added local news on Nov 4, 2009
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. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some...
Indy Media added local news on Sep 26, 2009
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 pathetic, we might as well act like it's cute. I don't...
Indy Media added local news on Sep 13, 2009
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: journalism that puts the people's interests above corporate...
Indy Media added local news on Sep 7, 2009
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 struggling with a bad case of...
Indy Media added local news on Sep 6, 2009
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, are rejected by California's largest private...
Indy Media added local news on Aug 27, 2009
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 economies will be driven under if the price of dirty...
Indy Media added local news on Aug 1, 2009
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 translator, who the Department of...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 24, 2009
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 to power-shift global capitalism onto a new path...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 17, 2009
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 most important policy goal across the world. The...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 17, 2009
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 ruling class established itself by force, and then...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 13, 2009
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 chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 11, 2009
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 greenwashing—local-washing—is, like the buy-local movement itself, most...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 9, 2009
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 Deborah Koons Garcia, the widow of the legendary...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 7, 2009
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 national carbon emissions. The bill’s supporters...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 6, 2009
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 (Wiley, 2009). **** In the summer of 1999, the...
Indy Media added local news on Jul 2, 2009
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 it's everywhere. The world's most powerful...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 30, 2009
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Indy Media added local news on Jun 28, 2009
"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 had just begun working at the MIT Media Lab in...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 27, 2009
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 a fellow at MIT’s Media Lab. Titled “You Don’t...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 24, 2009
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 BeforeYouEnlist.org. DVD copies available at AFSCstore.org.
Indy Media added local news on Jun 19, 2009
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 make his point. News commentator Ed Schultz said
Indy Media added local news on Jun 17, 2009
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 Communications Commission. In a hearing that lasted around 90...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 16, 2009
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 travelers in the Swiss Alps found the sight of the...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 16, 2009
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 leader in something else: Campaign money received...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 15, 2009
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 straightforward. President Obama had stepped up to challenge the...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 15, 2009
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 distinguished Iran from the crude dictators in...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 10, 2009
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 Muslims around the world? Did it echo off the walls of...
Indy Media added local news on Jun 8, 2009
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 178 Republicans will vote no over $5 billion for...
Indy Media added local news on May 21, 2009
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 president had outlined on detainee policy...
Indy Media added local news on May 18, 2009
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. 9/11 Commission's Chief Counsel says Official...
Indy Media added local news on May 17, 2009
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 witnessed a troubling sight. A hungry horde of teens was...