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About Comcast & The New “RightNetwork”

Shoq — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:15:13 +0000

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This issue has been mostly concluded for dozens of news organizations and Keith Olbermann. So who am I to wonder why no one is now interested in this "Ed Snider" person who makes big investments in right wing networks, allowing them to borrow his parent company (Comcast)'s name for their
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Wall Street’s Big Short: They Bet Against The World–And We Lost.

Shoq — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:12:32 +0000

'The Big Short' By Michael Lewis

Probably The 'Best Piece Of Financial Journalism Ever Written'— Felix Salmon

Even if you have no intention of reading this important book by this brilliant writer, see the video of Michael Lewis appearing on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart below. See it, and then get angry about this shit. Because

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Who Broke America

Shoq — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:33 +0000

New America Foundation's Barry Lynn (author of Cornered), has a very important article in Washington Monthly called:

"Who Broke American Jobs."

In my view, all of our problems, from campaign financing, to media consolidation, to the government dysfunctionalism and hyper partisanship that is breaking down anything that ever made American a worthwhile

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Our Real Enemy: Progressive Passivity

Shoq — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:29:48 +0000

This is the very essay I was going to try and tackle this week. These fine folks have done a superb job of writing it for me. You must read it, and then see my note that follows:

How To Do Effective Political Activism: What Always Worked And What Never Did — by Peterson

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Supreme Court’s Obscene Power Grab

Shoq — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:14:00 +0000

Background

The Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission is seen by many as probably the most frightening and destructive decision in the history of the Supreme Court and the United States of America. Far worse than the Dred Scott decision, which was horrific and some believe led directly to the Civil War. Here is some reading

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Has Social Media Ruined the Internet?

Shoq — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:26:16 +0000

I missed "Why this Decade Sucked," by Ed Edroso, back in December. Wish I hadn't. While it's over the top in spots, by and large, it's spot on, and reminds me of Norman Solomon's words in the mid 90s, when he quite rightly warned that the Internet would empower the status quo, while

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Liberal Media Myths Reader

Shoq — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:32:14 +0000

"I admit it — the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures." William Kristol, New Yorker, 5/22/95

Articles and Essays

The Price of the Liberal Media "Indeed, if an honest history of this era is ever written, one of

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Rants & Primers

Shoq — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:25:06 +0000

Below is a short list of articles written which I feel every progressive, or at least people who still believe in reason and evolution, should read.

I have chosen them for their ability to cut through the clutter of academic and philosophical verbiage, and get right to higher truth about the insane and dangerous phenomenon of

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