Monday, June 16, 2003
Sunday, June 15, 2003
Radio 4All
Who needs Rush when you can have all this?
Free Pacifica
The A-Infos Radio Project
San Francisco Liberation Radio
Radio Vollta - Philly
Free Radio Memphis -- 94.7FM
The Prometheus Radio Project
Beat Radio - Minneapolis, MN
Free Seattle Radio
Radio Free Conscience
Radio One 94.3 FM - Austin, TX
KO.OP-FM--Austin, TX
WORT-FM---Madison, WI
Radio Free Monterey - Monterey, CA
Radio Free Nashville - Nashville, TN
Lake County Radio -- N. California
NY Free Media Alliance
The Media Channel
the FOX-TV/BGH Cover-up Lawsuit
TUC Radio - San Francisco
Radio Topo -- Zaragoza, Spain
Radio 4ZZZ FM -- Queensland, OZ
Radio Onda Rosa -- Rome
Rogue Communications
Radio Blackout -- Torino, Italy
Transmitter Sites From Hell
Radio Free Cascadia - Eugene, OR
Radio Kook- San Francisco
North Seattle Grassroots Radio
Radio Citta Aperta - Rome
Rec Radio- North Tempe, AZ
The Experimental Radio Project
Not Bad Radio - Las Vegas, NV
The Return of Free Speech
Jerry's LPFM Page
UK Pirate Radio
KFJC-FM - Los Altos Hills, CA
Free Radio Spenard - Alaska
KFREE - Ukiah, CA
Earthradio - UK
Save KTRU
Radio Free Richmond Project
Radio Cybernet, Italy
Michigan Music Guide
Free Radio - the movie
No Nonsense 106.7FM - Yorkshire, UK
radio periscope 97.0fm Jerusalem
Nueva Radio Intercontinental
Dear NPR - An Opinion site Unwelcome Guests
Free Radio Berkeley
Freak Radio Santa Cruz 96.3FM
Indy Media (IMC)
Steal this Radio 88.7 FM -- NYC
KIND Radio -- San Marcos, TX
The IWW International Radio Network
Free Radio Gainesville
Studio X - Seattle, WA
Radio Limbo 103.3 FM - Tucson, AZ
Mt. Pleasant Broadcasting Club - DC
Save Our Station -- NYC
SPURT Radio - Berkeley/Oakland
Radio Rebelia FM - Poland
The Grid Radio -- Cleveland, Ohio
Radio Free Quebec
The Tao Communications
Radio 4A - Brighton, UK
Full Logic Reverse - Nevada City, CA
Americans for Radio Diversity
Vancouver Co-operative Radio
Radio 100 Ether FM - Amsterdam
CUIT Toronto Action Committee
The Grassroots Radio Coalition
Radio Free Allston -- Allston, MA
Radio Mutiny -- Philly
WBAIfree -- Free WBAI's Website
Radio for Peace - Costa Rica
North Valley Radio - Oroville, WA
The WOMB 107.1 -- Florida
WWWL 88.9
Radio Free World
Montrose Radio --Houston, TX
BTR 88.5 FM - Milwaukee, WI
WPKN - Bridgeport, CT
Radio Veronica - St. Louis, MO
Free Radio Network
WDOA - Worcester, MA
Party Town Radio
DFM Int - Web Radio, Europe
Correspondenza Hip Hop - Italia
Hitradio Accuzur - Nederlands
CJAM 91.5 - Windsor, Ontario
Alfa Lima International - short wave
M-A Infoshop's Pirate Radio Kiosk
Radio HYPE! Gdansk Poland
88.7 the Rage
The Grassroots News Network
Political Research Associates Political Research Associates is an independent, nonprofit research center that studies antidemocratic, authoritarian, and other oppressive movements, institutions, and trends. PRA is based on progressive values, and is committed to advancing an open, democratic, and pluralistic society. PRA provides accurate, reliable research and analysis to activists, journalists, educators, policy makers, and the public at large.
What does "right wing" mean?
Jean V. Hardisty, Ph.D.
Director, Political Research Associates
At PRA, we are often asked how we define the right wing. In the U.S., there is an identifiable right-wing agenda. Its roots lie in the lynchings of Blacks in the South by the Ku Klux Klan, the ideological principles of the John Birch Society, and the McCarthy hearings of the 1950's.
Central to the agenda is white supremacism, preservation of individual wealth in a setting of free market capitalism, preservation of rigidly traditional religious and family structures, and defense of US military hegemony.
There is virtually universal agreement that para-military white supremacists or neo-Nazis are right wing. More subtle distinctions are required when right-wing groups operate within mainstream US culture.
The Daily Brew
No Investigation Necessary
© June 15, 2003
The Daily Brew
EXCERPT:
There is no longer any real question about whether Bush lied to Congress and the American people about Iraq. He did. The aluminum tubes, the uranium from Niger, the unmanned drones rigged to spew clouds of bio-toxins over New York City at any second? All lies. The Bush administration's public statements themselves demonstrate these were lies, and no further Congressional inquiry is necessary to prove it.
But if the lies were bad, the innuendos were worse. Brazenly exploiting the tragedy, the administration intentionally (and successfully) created a connection between Iraq and September 11th in the mind of the public that simply did not exist. Bush sold the attack using the same smoke and mirrors Enron used to earn "profits." Again, Congress need not hold hearings to establish this fact. The Bush administration's public statements already on record are all that is needed.
Thus it really doesn't matter if they ever find weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration isn't going to find Nigerian uranium or drones capable of attacking the United States no matter how hard they look. Even if they do find something else, Bush still lied.
While congressional hearings might provide some nice political theater (and have therefore been blocked by the Republicans), they are not really necessary. The fundamental question created by the war on Iraq has been answered.
No Investigation Necessary
© June 15, 2003
The Daily Brew
EXCERPT:
There is no longer any real question about whether Bush lied to Congress and the American people about Iraq. He did. The aluminum tubes, the uranium from Niger, the unmanned drones rigged to spew clouds of bio-toxins over New York City at any second? All lies. The Bush administration's public statements themselves demonstrate these were lies, and no further Congressional inquiry is necessary to prove it.
But if the lies were bad, the innuendos were worse. Brazenly exploiting the tragedy, the administration intentionally (and successfully) created a connection between Iraq and September 11th in the mind of the public that simply did not exist. Bush sold the attack using the same smoke and mirrors Enron used to earn "profits." Again, Congress need not hold hearings to establish this fact. The Bush administration's public statements already on record are all that is needed.
Thus it really doesn't matter if they ever find weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration isn't going to find Nigerian uranium or drones capable of attacking the United States no matter how hard they look. Even if they do find something else, Bush still lied.
While congressional hearings might provide some nice political theater (and have therefore been blocked by the Republicans), they are not really necessary. The fundamental question created by the war on Iraq has been answered.
Censored 2003: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2001-2002
#1: FCC Moves to Privatize Airwaves
#2: New Trade Treaty Seeks to Privatize Global Social Services
#3: United States' Policies in Colombia Support Mass Murder
#4: Bush Administration Hampered FBI Investigation 46 into Bin Laden Family Before
#5: U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water System
#6: U.S. Government Pushing Nuclear Revival
#7: Corporations Promote HMO Model for School Districts
#8: NAFTA Destroys Farming Communities in U.S. and Abroad
#9: U.S. Faces National Housing Crisis
#10: CIA Double Deals in Macedonia
#11: Bush Appoints Former Criminals to Key Government Roles
#12: NAFTA's Chapter 11 Overrides Public Protection Laws of Countries
#13: Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford Lied to the American Public about East Timor
#14: New Laws Restrict Access to Abortions in U.S.
#15: Bush's Energy Plan Threatens Environment and Public Health
#16: CIA Kidnaps Suspects for Overseas Torture and Execution
#17: Corporate Media Ignores Key Issues of the Anti-Globalization Protests
#18: World's Coral Reefs Dying
#19: American Companies Exploit the Congo
#20: Novartis's Gene Research Endangers Global Plant Life
#21: Large U.S. Temp Company Undermines Union Jobs and Mistreats Workers
#22: Fish Farms Threaten Health of Consumers and Aquatic Habitats
#23: Horses Face Lives of Unnecessary Abuse for Drug Company Profits
#24: Wal-mart Takes
In These Times | Neocon Convergences
That neocons are galvanized by race is no surprise. One of the founding documents of neoconservatism is Norman Podhoretz’s 1963 essay “My Negro Problem—and Ours.” In that famous Commentary essay, Podhoretz’s comments helped create a gap between blacks and Jews that has yet to be bridged. Among other things, he suggested that the solution to America’s racial problem would be for blacks to accept miscegenation as an unobtrusive form of genocide.
Victims of these evils see the link between neo-imperialism and neoracism much more easily than the victimizers. And they fear this axis of evil much more than the one concocted by Bush’s speech writers. That’s likely one reason black Americans resisted overwhelming media propaganda and opposed the Iraq invasion. The funding priorities of the Bradley Foundation show those fears are not misplaced.
That neocons are galvanized by race is no surprise. One of the founding documents of neoconservatism is Norman Podhoretz’s 1963 essay “My Negro Problem—and Ours.” In that famous Commentary essay, Podhoretz’s comments helped create a gap between blacks and Jews that has yet to be bridged. Among other things, he suggested that the solution to America’s racial problem would be for blacks to accept miscegenation as an unobtrusive form of genocide.
Victims of these evils see the link between neo-imperialism and neoracism much more easily than the victimizers. And they fear this axis of evil much more than the one concocted by Bush’s speech writers. That’s likely one reason black Americans resisted overwhelming media propaganda and opposed the Iraq invasion. The funding priorities of the Bradley Foundation show those fears are not misplaced.
Saturday, June 14, 2003
When It Raines...
Powerful people and institutions have a strong self-interest in resisting journalistic inspection and the public accountability it can inspire. But their resistance weakens the democratic bond between the powerful and the powerless that can prevent unchecked corruption where it matters most. Irresponsible attacks by the right on just about all tough-minded, independent reporting come at the cost of the very information citizens need to understand the political, social and economic context of their world. The ability of the Times to report honestly on the forces that govern our lives--and, by doing so, to help set the agenda for the rest of the media--is one of the few institutional obstacles in the path of those who misuse their power. And that's why, for all its flaws, the Times must be defended. We have, alas, seen the alternative.
Powerful people and institutions have a strong self-interest in resisting journalistic inspection and the public accountability it can inspire. But their resistance weakens the democratic bond between the powerful and the powerless that can prevent unchecked corruption where it matters most. Irresponsible attacks by the right on just about all tough-minded, independent reporting come at the cost of the very information citizens need to understand the political, social and economic context of their world. The ability of the Times to report honestly on the forces that govern our lives--and, by doing so, to help set the agenda for the rest of the media--is one of the few institutional obstacles in the path of those who misuse their power. And that's why, for all its flaws, the Times must be defended. We have, alas, seen the alternative.
From the blog of Katrina vanden Heuvel...
Editor's Cut How to Really Save Private Lynch
"We face an unemployment problem that is certainly without precedent in my lifetime," said Paul Bremer, the US-appointed Governor of Iraq, as he unveiled a $100 million public works program for that battered country, using funds drawn from the Iraqi Central Bank. The move, according to the Wall Street Journal, is part of a broader effort to get Iraqis back to work, rebuild the country's hospitals and highways and, generally, jump-start the moribund economy.
Meanwhile, back in Palestine, West Virginia--best known as the hometown of Private Jessica Lynch--nearly half of the adults in Wirt county are unemployed, the poverty rate hovers near 20 percent and funds for civic projects like rebuilding the 41-year old county swimming pool have completely dried up.
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