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Oliver Stone’s Journey from Cold Warrior to America’s Untold History
Oliver Stone: I volunteered to fight in Vietnam and voted for Reagan. I started seeing through the lies and realized I had to start by understanding why we dropped …
At National Conference for Media Reform, Activists Hope to Stop Murdoch, Koch-Backed Consolidation
Democracy NOW broadcasts from the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, where some 2,000 people gathered last week to look at how media, technology and democracy intersect.
Bill Moyers: “Big Media Always Wants More. And It Will Stop at Nothing to Get It.”
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers spoke at the opening of the National Conference on Media Reform in 2007.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: It Appears the President Is Still Open to Negotiations With GOP Economic Terrorists, and More
In today's On the News segment: It looks like President Obama is still open to negotiations with Republican economic terrorists; same-sex marriage has the support of three more Democratic …
Chris Hedges: Why I Resigned From PEN
In May, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges was supposed to be speaking at an event for PEN. Instead, he told them he would not be speaking there and …
Drop the I-Word: In Victory for Advocates, Associated Press Stops Using Phrase “Illegal Immigrant”
The Associated Press has dropped the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its popular stylebook, a move welcomed by immigrant advocates who argue the term is a dehumanizing slur.
The “Chained CPI”: Why It’s Bad for Social Security and Why the White House Shouldn’t Be Touting It
The White House and prominent Democrats are talking about reducing future Social Security payments by using a formula for adjusting for inflation thatu2019s stingier than the current one.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans in North Carolina Say State Can Ignore the US Constitution, and More
Republicans in North Carolina say their state can ignore the U.S. Constitution.
New Era of Nuclear-Armed North Korea Forces US to Reconsider War Games at Regime’s Door
As North Korea threatens to launch a nuclear attack on the United States, the Obama administration is quietly expressing concern its own recent actions may have been too provocative.
Subsidized Corn Destroying Global Bio-Diversity
James Boyce: Industrial agriculture threatening existence of small farmers growing corn in Mexico and Guatemala; potatoes in Peru and the Andes; rice in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia - farmers …