Large Internet service providers, or ISPs, like Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T and Verizon are trying to change the rules that govern your online life. By Amy Goodman truthdig.com Posted on Sep 3, 2014 Next Wednesday, Sept. 10, if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net’s More
The New York Times muddies the waters about the deaths of the three Israeli teens that started the recent attacks on Gaza by Palestine...By Peter Hart FAIR.org September 5, 2014 Israel blamed Hamas for the deaths of three Israeli teens–and started a war over it. Now Israeli legal documents "depict the plot as more More
Washington’s elite media, as usual, is doing its job exactly wrong.They are baying for war.By BY DAN FROOMKIN TheIntercept.com September 4, 2014 Pundits and reporters are seemingly competing for who can be more scornful of President Obama for his insufficiently militaristic response to the brutal Sunni militants who call themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and More
Practical tips, rights, and appsBy Erin Kennedy www.thedialoguechronicle.com from PopularResistance.org August 27, 2014Consider this scenario:Hundreds of people gathering at town square in the morning have become thousands by the afternoon. The chanting from the protesters is only drowned out by the growl of police tanks rolling up a residential street. No Justice! No Peace! No More
The ISIS Threat: Chris Jansing was the fill in moderator on Meet The Press, and without David Gregory or Chuck Todd, Republican talking points about the threat of ISIS to America were strongly challenged. Chris Jansing Challenges MiKe Rogers - " Is There Actual Intelligence ISIS Is Threat to U.S.? " [youtube=http://youtu.be/x4O9lIg4fwo] Transcript: CHRIS JANSING: More
"Suppose you’re a young college student inclined towards liberal or left-wing ideas. And suppose, like a lot of such college students, you enjoy Stephen Colbert and find him a political inspiration. Now imagine that, during the #CancelColbert fiasco, you defended Colbert on Twitter. If your defense was noticed by the people who police that forum, More
America’s Continuing Border Crisis: The Real Story Behind the “Invasion” of the Children By Aviva Chomsky tomdispatch.com August 24, 2014 Click here to read Tom Engelhardt's introduction. Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the “crisis” of Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, which lasted for months amid fervent and angry More
America’s Continuing Border Crisis: The Real Story Behind the “Invasion” of the Children By Aviva Chomsky tomdispatch.com August 24, 2014 Click here to read Tom Engelhardt's introduction. Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the “crisis” of Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, which lasted for months amid fervent and angry More
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"Media criticism, at its best, is not rooted in partisanship, or ideology; it is a demand for the pursuit of truths that someone with economic or political power does not want told. Americans have good reason to be frustrated with media that misses the essential stories of racism and inequality, as well as assaults on More
Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel Pouring Poison into the Internet: A special investigative report By Lance Tapley Common Dreams August 20, 2014 Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors More
Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel Pouring Poison into the Internet: A special investigative report By Lance Tapley Common Dreams August 20, 2014 Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors More
