AltWeeklies Wire
The ABCs Of 9/11
Disney's TV network errs, blames Clinton.
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Paul Rosenberg |
09-15-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
What Would Happen?
New reports from USC and UCLA both argue that, whatever the local impacts, the national economy would not be severely strained, and would not suffer a recession if terrorists attacked the ports.
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Paul Rosenberg |
09-01-2006 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Cheney Sued For Outing CIA Spy
This suit charges four violations of constitutional rights, claims injuries including "gross invasion of privacy" and much more.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-19-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
GOP vs. Free Speech Online
After much prodding from below, Democrats come together to stop the corporate power-grab of the Internet and support Net Neutrality.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-05-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Convictions Barely Scratch Surface
Enron's Lay and Skilling face multi-decade sentences, but the biggest crimes and co-conspirators go unpunished.
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Paul Rosenberg |
06-08-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Unchecked Powers
The NSA spying is yet another incident where the Bush administration is working beyond the reach of law.
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Paul Rosenberg |
06-06-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Advocacy Journalism
We're encouraged to see journalism as dispassionate -- but passive acceptance of murderous priorities in our midst is a form of de facto advocacy.
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Norman Solomon |
05-19-2006 |
Media
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The New Face of the Labor Movement
Marchers of all races and nationalities protested the bills in Congress that would criminalize 12 million undocumented people and drive from their jobs those without papers.
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David Bacon, Terelle Jerricks and Paul Rosenberg |
05-10-2006 |
Immigration
Surrogate Attacks
When all else fails, the Bush administration blames the media -- through its surrogates.
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Norman Solomon |
03-23-2006 |
Media
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GOP vs. Feingold
Sens. Snowe and Hagel join the Bush cover-up, while Senator Feingold calls for censure, and some seek legal rulings that Bush's secret spying was illegal and unconstitutional.
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Paul Rosenberg |
03-16-2006 |
Civil Liberties
War-Loving Pundits
The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion was bound to attract a lot of media coverage, but scant recognition went to the pundits who helped make it all possible.
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Norman Solomon |
03-16-2006 |
Media
The Unreal Death of Journalism
From local car crashes to catastrophes
in faraway places, deadly events are grist for the media mill, but the coverage is almost always superficial.
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Norman Solomon |
02-23-2006 |
Media
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Oil for Freedom
Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, oil workers in Basra reorganized one of Iraq's oldest unions, and faced the occupation's prohibition on collective bargaining in the public sector.
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David Bacon |
02-02-2006 |
International
Tags: international
The Meaning of Frank Wilkinson
Frank Wilkinson wasn’t the first man to stare down Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, but he was the last man to go to jail for trying.
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Lionel Rolfe |
01-19-2006 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Flying High With Boeing
Why the heck is a political show on public television getting a lot of its budget from one of the biggest players in the Washington sweepstakes for Pentagon contracts?
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Norman Solomon |
01-19-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
