Obama and Clinton are well in the mainstream of American Politics. Radical University of Texas Journalism Professor, Robert Jensen, says they owe their mainstream success to radical forebears who were willing to pay the price.
Advertisers are attempting to turn Earth Day into the new Christmas. Taking an event and giving it a consumerist spin. Advertisers are using Earth-Day to sell products and encourage people to consume.
Activist Abe Osheroff whose activism spanned several decades has died. Robert Jensen has this euology.
I'm about to step on the third rail….abortion. This issue is still so touchy that not even Hollywood's liberal elite can really say where they stand. Two recent movies that dealt with unplanned pregnancies, Juno, and
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One of the leading purveyors of fake news is falling out of favor with its investors. The stock price of Medialink has plummeted
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Wants To Know If National Public Radio Is Lowballing The Number of Iraqi Dead From The War
It was hard to believe, but there it was in my current home town paper. The St. George Spectrum. Let me quote the author of the piece: "The presidency should not be decided by Affirmative Action. And, I fear, that's all Obama's election would be. The
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A new building by MGM Mirage is Las Vegas is touting its environmental friendliness and is seeking certification for same. One Problem: The Mirage wants to allow smoking in its new City Center Casino
Here's another regime change we forgot about. Bush deposing of Aristide. Activists won't let us forget.
You've read more than you want to know about the prostitute. Now read what the man has to say about corporate corruption and the erosion of worker's right in America. Then, make your own choice.
University of Texas journalism professor, Robert Jensen tells us that a true committment ot justice and peace requires real sacrifice from those who live in privilige.
Despite a restoration of funding several EPA document depositories remain closed, or with substantially reduced hours. Activists have made use of such depositories in the past to prepare lawsuits and research environmental issues.
A controversial column on the yeshiva attacks in Israel published in UNLV's student newspaper may have been the reason the papers were put into a dumpster. The newspaper re-published the column this week.
I sometimes wonder how the great iconoclastic journalists, George Seldes and I.F. Stone would have regarded the Internet. For background, both Stone and Seldes started out as newspaper reporters and later struck out on their own.
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A number of Washington State communities are gearing up to take control of their water reources away from private utiltiies. This follows in the path of a number of other US communities who want to to wrest control of water away from the private sectro
A movement that takes its own to the words of Paul in the New Testament epistles is on the net and is providing domestic advice to Christian married couples.
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Four people are suing the US over US travel restrictions to Cuba. Among the litigants are a young couple: A Vermont law school student and the Cuban women with whom he is in love.
Crises create opportunities for discussion. What has been being referred to as a cheating crisis at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School opens up such an opportunity. Teams of students were caught collaborating writing
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A Baptist school in Kentucky wants it both ways. They are perfectly willing to accept several million dollars from the state to start a pharmacy school. They are also not willing to accept the state's rules on practicing non-discrimination against gays.
Oregon has become the first state to pass a bill extending the First Amendment to college and high school journalists. Similar measures have been debated in other states. The law protects student publications from administrative censorship.
When I think of the Right these days, I often think of the line made famous by George Costanza. "It's not a lie, if you believe its true." In other words, I truly think they do believe all the balderdash that they're spreading these days. Let's look at a few examples.
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I cannot, for the life of me understand why the news this last week concerning the existence of an actual manual detailing how protesters were to be dealt with has not received more attention.
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A New film tells the story of Murat Kurnaz, a German of Turkish parentage.Kurnaz spent five years in Guantamo and was subjected to torture. Lawyers finally got him the justice he deserved.
A number of states are trying loan forgiveness schemes to keep college graduates from state institutions in the state. State lawmakers in Maine are trying a tax credit program to keep college graduates in the state.
STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE The smell of desperation by conservatives is in the air. Conservatives are busily erecting a straw man to attack. That straw man is the Fairness Doctrine.
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Obama and Clinton are well in the mainstream of American Politics. Radical University of Texas Journalism Professor, Robert Jensen, says they owe their mainstream success to radical forebears who were willing to pay the price.
A congressional candidate is defending his speech to a group celebrating the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth, saying he appeared simply because he was asked.
Advertisers are attempting to turn Earth Day into the new Christmas. Taking an event and giving it a consumerist spin. Advertisers are using Earth-Day to sell products and encourage people to consume.
Activist Abe Osheroff whose activism spanned several decades has died. Robert Jensen has this euology.
Despite the recent spate of major bestsellers touting the virtues of atheism, polls show consistent, stubborn reluctance on the part of the public to cast their votes for a presidential candidate who denies the existence of God.
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