>The death and life of the American newspaperby Eric Alterman http://www.newyorker.com (March 31 2008)The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years. Benjamin Harris's spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down. Harris had suggested a politically incorrect hard line on … Continue reading >Out of Print →

>The Great Global Warming Swindle is just one example of Channel 4's war against the greensby George MonbiotPublished in the Guardian (July 22 2008)So here we go again. For the second time, Channel 4 has been fiercely criticised by the broadcasting regulator for a programme attacking environmental science. For the second time the director was … Continue reading >Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications →

>by David Simonwashingtonpost.com (January 20 2008)Is there a separate elegy to be written for that generation of newspapermen and women who came of age after Vietnam, after the Pentagon Papers and Watergate? For us starry-eyed acolytes of a glorious new church, all of us secular and cynical and dedicated to the notion that though we … Continue reading >Does the News Matter To Anyone Anymore? →

>People love films like The Great Global Warming Swindle, because they tell us what we want to believe.by George MonbiotPublished in the Guardian (July 22 2008)There is just one party which doesn't seem to care about the controversy created by The Great Global Warming Swindle. That is the company which broadcast it: Channel 4. In … Continue reading >The Self-Justifying Myth →

>Corporate media colludes with democracy's demise.by Bill MoyersIn These Times (July 11 2008)I heard this story a long time ago, growing up in Choctaw County in Oklahoma before my family moved to Texas. A tribal elder was telling his grandson about the battle the old man was waging within himself. He said, "It is between … Continue reading >Is the Fourh Estate a Fifth Column? →

>by Lester R BrownEarth Policy Institute (July 09 2008)The world's cities are facing unprecedented problems. In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. Respiratory illnesses are rampant. In the United States, the number of hours commuters spend sitting frustrated in traffic-congested streets and … Continue reading >Redesigning Urban Transport →

>Clusterfuck Nation by Jim KunstlerComment on current events by the author ofThe Long Emergency (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005)www.kunstler.com (July 22 2008)Apology to readers: after being hassled by Canadian immigration officials at the Edmonton, Alberta, airport on Sunday afternoon, and in a rush to make my connecting flight to Grand Prairie, I stupidly left my Mac … Continue reading >Pretend-O-Rama →

>Western intervention against Robert Mugabe's 'evil regime' put Zimbabwe into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people.by Brendan O'Neillwww.spiked-online.com (April 03 2008)'We've beaten Mugabe', said a frontpage headline in the London Evening Standard yesterday. Only there were no quote marks around the words 'We've beaten Mugabe', which made it difficult to tell if the paper … Continue reading >Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism →

>by Mike WhitneyCounterpunch (July 08 2008)While George Bush was breezing through photo-ops at the G-8 summit in Japan; his Ethiopian proxy-army in Somalia was grinding out more carnage on the streets of Mogadishu. More than forty civilians have been killed in the last 48 hours.On Sunday, Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the UN Development … Continue reading >Bush’s Rampage in Somalia →

>Washington DC Socialists Save Crashing Capitalistsby Ralph Naderwww.counterpunch.org (July 17 2008)Here they go again! Financial capitalism is crashing. So the lights are on late in Washington's Federal Reserve, SEC and Treasury Department trying to figure out how socialism (your tax dollars and credits) can once again bail out these big time gamblers with our money.Every … Continue reading >Another Bail Out for the Financial Elites →