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September 30, 2004

What's At Stake

On Friday 9-23-04, Medea Benjamin, Normon Solomon and Daniel Ellsberg spoke in Ashland to a packed house. I had the opportunity to record the event and just uploaded some nice mp3 tracks from the evening. I invite everyone to drop in and take a listen at Radio Free Ashland just follow the link at the top.

In 1968, Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg photocopied 7000 top secret documents on the Vietnam War. The "Pentagon Papers" were later published by the New York Times, exposing the lies of the Nixon administration.

Medea Benjamin is the founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink. During the Republican National Convention, Code Pink protested the war profitteering of Halliburton and Dick Cheney.

Normon Solomon is a journalist and author of the book "Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You".

They were joined by folk singers Dave Lippman (as George Shrub, the world's only singing CIA agent) and David Rovics.

Posted by John at 08:38 AM

September 14, 2004

News and Information Sources


Here are some of my favorite news and information sources I've found. These are the ones I scan daily, reading summaries or headlines. I hope this helps you make your decision in November.

Fact Checker - non-partisan project from the Annenberg Public Policy Institute

Capitol Hill Blue - started by a retired Washington DC reporter. Under the radar news from the Capitol.

Radical Reference - a volunteer group of reference libarians answer your questions for free

Daily Mislead - heavily partisan democrat daily newsletter but at least it's footnoted

Truthout - aggregator of news from other sources, also rather partisan

Mother Jones - investigative journalism magazine

Salon - not entirely partisan with frequent original reporting

BBC - the beeb from britain

The Guardian - daily london newspaper

And some radio sources

JeffExchange - daily morning show with excellent hour long interviews

Diane Riem Show - another daily show with great interviews

Le Show - great weekly humor and news show from the man with a thousand voices

Democracy Now - daily news program from new york that often scoops the mass media

And even on TV source (imagine that!)

The Daily Show - The best news program on TV

Posted by John at 08:35 AM