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Political Fact Checking That Doesn’t Amplify the Lie
Political fact-checking operations have proliferated over the last several campaigns. The Annenberg Public Policy Center launched the original FactCheck.org. The St. Petersburg Times’ PolitiFact won a Pulitzer for famously …
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First Look by Outsiders at Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant
Tokyo - The scene is post-apocalyptic: a scattering of failed buildings squatting in the sunlit silence, their iron frames bent and twisted, having barely withstood the explosions that rocked …
Naomi Klein on Environmental Victory: Obama Delays Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Decision Until 2013 (2)
Environmental activists are claiming victory after the Obama administration announced Thursday it will postpone any decision on the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline until 2013. The …
Occupy Oakland Live (2)
Watch live as police raid the Occupy Oakland camp.
Protesters Interrupt Bachmann’s Speech in South Carolina (2)
About 40 protesters from Occupy Charleston interupted Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) foreign policy speech during a campaign stop in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. As she was beginning her speech, …
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Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement
Conventional journalism is increasingly irrelevant in a time of crisis. We find abundant proof in a recent column from the New York Times’ so-called “Public Editor,” who is supposed …
Can the Oceans Continue to Feed Us?
Washington - Far out on the Pacific Ocean, the world's industrial fishing fleets pursue one of the last huge wild hunts — for the tuna eaten by millions of …
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The Originality of Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street, November 6th. (Photo: [clint]) The political movements of the left that I have participated in over many decades were almost always focused on or …
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“Occupy” and Hope for a Human Spring in Afghanistan
(Photo: isafmedia / Flickr) The reason the Occupy movement grips our hearts is that the Afghan strategy of the past 40 years implemented by Afghanistan's lords and …
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Start a Business?! How ‘Bout Occupy Entrepreneurship?
Occupy Wall Street protesters march in New York's Financial District on September 26th, 2011. (Photo: _PaulS_ / flickr) I recently came across a pithy, anti-Occupy Wall Street …