The People’s Media: Preventing Corporate Takeover of the Internet Saturday 11 February 2012 via truthout.org by: Joseph Torres, Yes! Magazine | News Analysis NYTM Stop SOPA Rally, January 18, 2012. (Photo: mobius1ski) Public interest groups have waged a spirited campaign to prevent a corporate takeover of the Internet. AT&T spared no expense in 2011 when it sought government More
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in Afghanistan Posted by Nick Turse February 12, 2012. Tom Dispatch In Afghanistan, “victory” came early — with the U.S. invasion of 2001. Only then did the trouble begin. Ever since the U.S. occupation managed to revive the Taliban, one of the least popular of popular movements in More
Crashing the Gates: How a Handful of Progressive Activists Brought Liberal Talk-Radio Back to the Nation’s Capitol By Joshua Holland February 4, 2012 AlterNet DC is the most liberal region of the country, but until now all the talk on the radio dial skewed right. The District of Columbia, Gallup tells us, is the most progressive region More
Comments> Dialog & Controversy over Chris Hedges’ article “The Cancer in Occupy” I have been asked to delete the post on WAMMToday by Chris Hedges called “The Cancer in Occupy.” [I think by whom is not relevant to this dialog, and the different viewpoints are reflected below.] Before I posted it, it did cross my More
Top official: drone critics are Al Qaeda enablers BY GLENN GREENWALD February 6, 2012 Salon.com (updated below) The New York Times‘ Scott Shane reported this morning on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism study I wrote about yesterday, detailing that the U.S. drone program, as the NYT put it, “repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the More
The Assange Case Means That We Are All Suspects Now by John Pilger February 1, 2012 Global Research This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations More
Iran and the Threat of Not Having Future Wars 02/03/2012 by Peter Hart FAIR The conventional understanding you get from the media is that Israel is worried that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a serious threat to the country's existence. Is that really what's happening, though? Another interpretation is that Iran might want nuclear weapons More
Iran: This Is What Propaganda Looks Like 02/01/2012 by Peter Hart FAIR Alarmist corporate media coverage of the “threat” from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify the propagandistic coverage we’re seeing. His main More
Tomgram: Iran Through the Looking Glass By Tom Engelhardt January 29, 2012 Tom Dispatch Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico It Can’t Happen Here Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S. (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian More
One response to Responses to Kevin Zeese> Chris Hedges Examines the Strategy of Occupy Washington DC Kevin Zeese January 31, 2012 I agree that opposition to war and empire need to continue to be near the top of the agenda of the Occupy Movement. The Freedom Plaza occupation has been aggressive on that protesting at the Armed More
The “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on BY GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com [Editorial Note: This is an amazing article. When I first started reading it, my eyes glazed over a bit thinking it was just one of those insider media things that names a lot of media writers and essentially does not amount More
Fired from MSNBC for Anti-War Views, Phil Donahue Speaks Out on Republicans and Journalism, While Campaigning for Norman Solomon in California The legendary talk show host, who lost his show because he opposed the Iraq war, discusses the wars, the presidential candidates, and more in an in-depth interview. January 16, 2012 | Consortium News / By Dennis Bernstein via More
