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Huffington Postmortem continued-- please repost this too
Here are some news sources that I will be using now that Progressive voices are so completely silenced by the corporatist-fascist media ( Read more... ) -
And another thing....
This is the kind of thing we need to be doing-- this is how we need to start spreading the word. We cannot rely on the ever-consolidating corporate media oligopoly to report the news. I do think we need to get the FCC to regulate them, but it's also important to spread the word-- things don't "go viral" on their own. The .com bust taught us that ( Read more... ) -
Huffington Postmortem-- please repost
The media are more and more tightly controlled by fewer and fewer corporations. Here's what I know. If anyone knows of a planned protest, please comment! Egyptians took to the streets for their own freedom, and it seems to me that the consolidation of the corporate media oligopoly leaves us no choice but to do the same. If anyone knows of a ( Read more... ) -
Republicancer or: why negotiating with hostage-takers is bad
The Rethugs got their tax-cut-for-the-ultra-rich by threatening economic ruin (by taking the middle-class tax cut and unemployment insurance hostage), not to mention holding up medical care for 9/11 first reponders, and giving material aid and comfort to nuclear terrorists (through their obstruction of the New START treaty). Yes, we got these ( Read more... ) -
I survived the Cold War for this? or everything you need to know about John Kyl (R-Iran)
READ THIS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-plame-wilson/arms-treaty-must-not-be-d_b_787586.html
The Wikileaks story is flashy, and probably loaded with all kinds of entertainingly sordid details, but I'm a little focused on ( Read more... ) -
Keep Calm and Carry On
This was a big loss, and it's worrying because crazypants Bachmann wants to bring HUAC back from the dead, but it was nothing like the "Tidal Wave" the media predicted (and are still reporting, even though the Repugs didn't get the Senate, didn't get Reid's seat like they predicted, didn't pull the upsets the media predicted they'd make-- the ( Read more... ) -
VOTE, damnit!
There is NO excuse to sit this one out! I can't remember a time when there was more daylight between the two parties.
The GOP is getting lots of soft money advertising from the foreign companies that benefit when YOUR JOB gets moved overseas, and they are getting that soft money because they are willing to sell us out. The candidates that the ( Read more... )