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9 Years Later, Why 9/11 Truth Still Matters

Indy Media · 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...

The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Indy Media · 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...

The Tragedy of the Mental Commons

Indy Media · 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...

Other Economies are Possible: Organizing toward an economy of cooperation and solidarity

Indy Media · 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...

Extra! Extra! Read the Top News that Didn't Make the News in 2009

Indy Media · 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

Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth?

Indy Media · 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...

Beyond Magical Thinking: How to Really Make Change Happen

Indy Media · 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...

In Search of Morale: Are Americans Too Broken for the Truth to Set Us Free?

Indy Media · 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...

What Obama Is Up Against

Indy Media · 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...

Bill Maher's New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle

Indy Media · 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...

Toxic Waters in America

Indy Media · 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...

Labor Day resolution: Make Wal-Mart work for workers

Indy Media · 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...

The Real Death Panels

Indy Media · 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...

Where Climate Change Will Hit The Hardest

Indy Media · 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...

Former FBI Translator: Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Right Up Until 9/11

Indy Media · 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...

The Delusion Revolution: The future we have been dreaming of is not based on reality

Indy Media · 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...

Thinking the Unthinkable

Indy Media · 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...

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand

Indy Media · 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...

Taking Shorter Showers Doesn't Cut It: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change

Indy Media · 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...

The Corporate Co-Opt of "Local"

Indy Media · 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...

Watch Now: "The Future of Food"

Indy Media · 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...

The Dark Side of Climate Change

Indy Media · 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...

This Is Your Country on Drugs: How the DARE Generation Got High

Indy Media · 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...

The Great American Bubble Machine

Indy Media · 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...

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"You don't understand our audience": What I learned about network TV at Dateline NBC

Indy Media · 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...

The Mainstream Media Has Failed Us

Indy Media · 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...

Watch "Before You Enlist!"

Indy Media · 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.

Dick Cheney Only Had to Delay Things a COUPLE OF MINUTES to Reach his Long-Sought Goals

Indy Media · 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

Net Neutrality Supporter Likely To Be Confirmed FCC Chair

Indy Media · 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...

Screen Addiction: Does the overuse of screens alter our perceptions of reality?

Indy Media · 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...

The Health Insurance Industry's Sway Over Obama's Point Man on Health Care Reform

Indy Media · 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...

Barack Obama vs. Harriet and Louise

Indy Media · 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...

Iran's Political Coup

Indy Media · 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...

Do You Really Think Arabs in the Middle East Clapped for Obama's Speech?

Indy Media · 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...

25 House Progressives Can End the Wars

Indy Media · 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...

Civil Libertarian Rips Obama's Speech: All Bells And Whistles

Indy Media · 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...

Like Iraq, the "Facts" Regarding 9/11 Were "Fixed Around the Policy"

Indy Media · 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...

Ban Fast Food Near Schools

Indy Media · 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...

Peace Is Patriotic (And That's The Problem)

Indy Media · "We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to...

9/11 Media Breakthrough in Denmark: New Evidence of the "Loaded Gun"

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The Fatal Thread: Torture, War and the Imperial Project

Indy Media · From: Counterpunch.org With the release of the U.S. Senate's report on the Bush Administration torture program, it is now incontrovertibly clear -- and officially established by the highest, most respectable Establishment institutions...

Daniel Sunjata: Intellectual Dishonesty In The Age Of Universal Deceit

Indy Media · "The inert masses are mentally and spiritually ill equipped to deal with reality, so they block it out of their minds - aided of course, by the corporate media and the propaganda apparatus of the government itself. This is why fantasy...

Support the Monetary Reform Act - Oppose the Bank Bailouts!

Indy Media · Dear Fellow American Citizen: The ongoing, severe economic turmoil in our nation - destined to get worse if the right remedy is not enacted - was predicted in our video The Money Masters as the inevitable result of our fractional...

Envisioning Light Rail in Kansas City

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Your Favorite 'Natural' Brands May Not Be What They Seem

Indy Media · From: mercola.com Burt’s Bees lip balm was originally sold at independently owned health food stores. But more recently, Burt's Bees products have appeared everywhere -- in grocery stores, drug stores, and big-box stores like Target...

10 Big, Really Hard Things We Can Do to Save the Planet

Indy Media · From: WorldChanging.comTraditionally, this is a day devoted to making green accessible to all. It's a day when each of us is invited to take small, individual steps toward reducing our carbon footprints, limiting our waste, or restoring...

Are Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed?

Indy Media · by Dave Lindorff From ThisCantBeHappening.net For some time now, many Americans have wondered how Congress, the elected body that the nation’s Founding Fathers saw as the bulwark of liberty, could have been so thoroughly unwilling to...

Naomi Klein: HopeOver, HopeLash, HopeBreak: A Lexicon of Disappointment

Indy Media · All is not well in Obamafanland. It's not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury's latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president's chief economic adviser, Larry...

Should Obama Control the Internet?

Indy Media · Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the...

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

Indy Media · Corrections Corporation of America, a private firm that operates prisons like this one in California City, Ca., saw its revenue from holding immigrants jump to $95 million in 2005 from $70 million the year before (AP photo). Story by...

Who Should Resist, and Who Will Become Serfs?

Indy Media · America is devolving into a third-world nation. And if we do not immediately halt our elite's rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in debts, which can never be repaid, and widespread human misery which...

Preparing for Civil Unrest in America

Indy Media · The financial meltdown has unleashed a latent and emergent social crisis across the United States. What is at stake is the fraudulent confiscation of lifelong savings and pension funds, the appropriation of tax revenues to finance the...

Beyond Elections in the Americas: An Interview with Michael Fox

Indy Media · The new documentary Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (buy from PM Press) proves that democracy can and should be more than casting a ballot every four years. This empowering film gives hopeful and concrete examples...

A Crack in Capitalismo's Facade

Indy Media · For much of the 20th century, Latin America was the backyard of the stronger, more powerful United States. Any Latin American government unfriendly to the neoliberal ideology of free trade and privatization could be bullied into toeing...

Are Wikipedia and Google homogenizing our culture?

Indy Media · “The one who controls the search results controls the searcher” may be an apt motto for our era. The sad truth about the Internet is that what started as a liberating multiplicity of informational sources has dwindled to a handful of...

Sick in the head: Why America Won't Get the Health-care System it Needs

Indy Media · By Scott Horton From Harper's Magazine: When Congress is in session, Michigan Congressman John Conyers holds a regular public meeting at the Rayburn House Office Building, where, if you happen to be interested in health policy, you are...

Big Idea: Rights for Nature

Indy Media · Last September Ecuador approved a constitutional amendment that protects the rights of Pachamama, Mother Earth. By affirming the rights of nature, “where life is reproduced and exists,” Ecuador is offering the world a way out of one of...

Media Matters: Asymmetrical Class Warfare

Indy Media · The media are outraged at the "class warfare" supposedly present in President Obama's budget plans. In the past few days alone, Michelle Bernard said Barack Obama "was almost declaring class warfare" in his speech to Congress; CNBC's...

Sonoma Mountain Village: Is Green Suburbia Possible?

Indy Media · Forty miles north of San Francisco, on the site of a former industrial park, work is underway on the ambitious new Sonoma Mountain Village, a 200-acre development that aims to be truly sustainable. The development is America’s first to...

Vote Now For the One Flag

Indy Media · about one flag competition Design is at war with itself. We are taught that design is about finding solutions. But the success of these solutions is judged so narrowly – Did it ooze desire? Did it shift units? – that we find ourselves...

Tell Congress We Want Single Payer Heatlh Care

Indy Media · Update: Over 25,000 readers have urged their Representatives and Senators to support Single Payer Health Care. Won't you join them? Take 90 seconds and write your Reps here Tell Congress We Want Single Payer Health Care We...

Free Press Update on the Broadband Stimulus Package

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High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Can You Stomach the Facts?

Indy Media · By Scott Starret From our good friends at the rathaus: It’s not the milk mustache, but high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is being promoted in a series of advertisements to dutifully inform the public that the cost-effective sugar...

The Great College Hoax

Indy Media · By Kathy Kristof. From http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0202/060.htmlAs steadily as ivy creeps up the walls of its well-groomed campuses, the education industrial complex has cultivated the image of college as a sure-fire path to a...

The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We?

Indy Media · It's not a new trend: A wave of upheaval is spreading from the poorer countries on the periphery of the global economy to the prosperous core.

The War on Terror is a Hoax

Indy Media · By Paul Craig Roberts According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections. Among...

Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill

Indy Media · By Sam Stein. From HuffingtonPost.com: Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and business officials to organize opposition to the...

You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

Indy Media · By Johann Hari. From the HuffingtonPost.com: Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from...

Sustainable Government: A Radical Plan for Funding a New Deal

Indy Media · by Ellen Brown. From Yes! Magazine:“This isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about building a smarter government that focuses on what works.” – Barack Obama, November 26, 2008 As our 44th President prepares to enter...

The Good Consumer

Indy Media · From BonfireTheBrands.com:Take the one week Debrand your life chal

When Did Torture Become Part of the American Way?

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Conspiracies and Confabulation: Tales from two Naomis

Indy Media · by Kevin Ryan. From AmericanBuddhist.net: Learning about self-deception is important for all people today. That's because many of our problems, both as individuals and as a society, are rooted in self-deception, and many of the ways in...

Buy Nothing Day

Indy Media · Suddenly, we ran out of money and, to avoid collapse, we quickly pumped liquidity back into the system. But behind our financial crisis a much more ominous crisis looms: we are running out of nature… fish, forests, fresh water...

Zombie Economics: Don't Bail out the System that Gave Us SUVs and Strip Malls

Indy Media · By James Howard Kunstler. From Alternet.org:Though Citicorp is deemed too big to fail, it's hardly reassuring to know that it's been allowed to sink its fangs into the Mother Zombie that the U.S. Treasury has become and sucked out a...

The Crisis

Indy Media · By Herman Daly. From Adbusters.org:The turmoil affecting the world economy unleashed by the US sub-prime debt crisis isn’t really a crisis of “liquidity” as it is often called. A liquidity crisis would imply that the economy was in...

Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy

Indy Media · By David Korten. From Yes! Magazine. The financial crisis has put to rest the myths that our economic institutions are sound and markets work best when deregulated. Our economic institutions have failed, not only financially, but also...

Why It's Hard to Change People's Minds

Indy Media · By Sean Gonsalves. From Alternet.org:A long time ago, Mark Twain told us: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Entwined in Twain's train of thought, is an implicit...

Know Your Propaganda Techniques

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Barack Obama: The Empire’s New Clothes

Indy Media · By Paul Street. From Black Agenda Report: "Obama is an act of system-legitimizing brilliance." "This is bigger than life itself. When I was coming up, I always thought they put in who they wanted to put in. I didn't think my vote...

Fake New York Times Says All Problems Will Be Solved By July 2009

Indy Media · By Jason Linkins. From the HuffingtonPost.com:New York City woke up this morning to find that some committed satirists had delivered unto them a remarkably well-rendered facsimile of the New York Times, filled with earnest and hopeful...

The November 5th Movement

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A New Face on the Same Empire?

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Is Obama Screwing His Base with Rahm Emanuel Selection?

Indy Media · By Stephen Zunes, From AlterNet.I had really wanted to celebrate Barack Obama's remarkable victory for a day or so before becoming cynical again. I really did. And yet, less than 24 hours after the first polls closed, the...

Dear President Obama: Inaugurate Change

Indy Media · Please visit Worldchanging's Inaugurate Change campaign to add your name to this letter that will urge Obama's administration to deliver a vital message about climate change in his very first speech as President.

Real Change Depends on Stopping the Bailout Profiteers

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The Triumph of Ignorance: How Morons Succeed in U.S. Politics

Indy Media · By George Monbiot. From Monbiot.com:How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the United States come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind's closest living...

Needed for This Election: A Great Rejection

Indy Media · By Norman Solomon. From GNN.tv:It could be a start — a clear national rejection of the extreme right-wing brew that has saturated the executive branch for nearly eight years. What’s emerging for Election Day is a common front against...

Richard Heinberg: A Green New Deal

Indy Media · From PostCarbon.org:Conversations at the Bioneers conference last weekend (and by e-mail for many days now) have been dominated by a single theme: There is immediate need for a coherent policy with which the new US administration can...

Van Jones: How We Can Lead Our Country Out of Crisis

Indy Media · By Tara Lohan and Joshua Holland. From Alternet.org:

United States Ranked 36th In The World For Press Freedom

Indy Media · From HuffingtonPost.com:The United States is ranked 36th in the world in terms of press freedom, up from 48th last year, according to a report released Wednesday by Reporters Sans Frontieres. The US is tied with Bosnia and Herzegovina...

The Election Has Already Been Stolen

Indy Media · Summary from 911Truth.org:"I don't think the Democrats get it. All these new rules and games ... could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states." Rolling Stone Magazine is making this important investigative story available on...

While McCain runs from his past, Some of McCain's relatives support Obama

Indy Media · By Elgin Jones. From: South Florida Times In the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where the ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation, black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two...

New 2-hour PBS Special on Global Warming

Indy Media · Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, fires, floods and droughts. On the eve of a historic election, award-winning producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates how the world's largest corporations and governments are responding...

Top 25 Censored News Stories in U.S. Highlighted by Academic Research Group

Indy Media · By Peter Phillips. From ProjectCensored.org: Media Accountability Day, October 1, is the annual release of the news stories that were not covered by the corporate-mainstream media in the US. The list, just announced by Project Censored...

The Real Crisis is Ecological

Indy Media · BBC’s environmental correspondent reports: The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study. It puts the annual cost of...

Can the GOP Steal The Election Again? You Betcha!

Indy Media · By Ernest Partridge. From CrisisPapers.org: John McCain's campaign is imploding as the presidential candidate lapses into incoherence and petulance, and his running-mate becomes a national laughing-stock. In the face of an impending...

The Banker's Trick: America Takes the Bait

Indy Media · By Patrick Henningsen. From OpEdNews.com: Here we stand in the wake of the virtual financial tsunami, followed by the giant bail out. In the words of the next generation, I guess you could say, "we should have known better." We just...

Congress Threatened with Martial Law if Bailout Bill Not Passed

Indy Media · Take 30 minutes and watch this timely review of events just this past week in an interview with Naom

The Battle Plan: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State

Indy Media · By Naomi Wolf. From HuffingtonPost.com:Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state. You have to understand how things work...

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