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Monday, August 13, 2007 : Facing Congressional subpoenas, Karl Rove to resign as President Bush's top advisor on August 31. Meanwhile the world's economic system appears to be on the verge of a crisis because of the U.S. subprime mortgage scandal. Schechter discusses his new article "Subprime or Subcrime? Time To Investigate and Prosecute."...

On the weekly Questioning War-Organizing Resistance rdio show, local activist, Carol Brouillet interviewed Jarek Kupsc, the writer, director, actor in The Reflecting Pool, one of the first narrative feature 9/11 Truth films....

Friday, August 10, 2007 : This October, the Federal Communications Commission will open a one-week window, during which nonprofit community groups in the can file applications for their own noncommercial broadcast license. A coalition called Radio For People has formed to help groups through the application process....

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 : While the mainstream media wants to portray liberal bloggers as knee-jerk ideologues who are pushing the Democratic Party to the left, those who gathered at this weekend’s Yearly Kos Convention were very pragmatic. They realize that the party must compete in all 50 states to stay competitive, and a Democrat running in Idaho cannot run like a Democrat in San Francisco....

Tuesday, August 7, 2007 : "Liberal Democracy is moving toward a form of corporate dictatorship. This is an historic shift, and the media must not be allowed to be its façade, but itself made into a popular, burning issue, and subjected to direct action," said John Pilger. "That great whistleblower Tom Paine warned that if the majority of the people were denied the truth and the ideas of truth, it was time to storm what he called the Bastille of words. That time is now." We spend the hour a...

Monday, August 6, 2007 : With 1,500 delegates at the Yearly Kos Convention, I only met two Hillary Clinton supporters – despite media portrayals of a “warm” reception. She is the current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and is hoping to get it by inevitability. But this doesn’t mean that the blogosphere is “out of touch,” although the blogger demographics clearly work against her....

Friday, August 3, 2007 : “Bloggers have come out of the basement,” exclaimed one delegate on the first day of the Yearly Kos Convention. The attendees here in Chicago do not all fit the stereotype – they are not just a group of 23-year-old white males who blog from their mother’s basement. While there are very few people of color, the age and gender balance is pretty diverse – as the liberal blogosphere has grown to include any progressive who has Internet access and wants to help change the ...

Thursday, August 2, 2007 : The Federal Communications Commission has approved a set of rules to auction off a sizable chunk of the public airwaves. These rules will likely affect the lives of everyone in this country that uses the Internet and mobile phones. Craig Aaron of Free Press and Wall Bowen of the non-profit internet service provider Mountain Area Information Network explain....

Thursday, August 2, 2007 : Over 1500 progressive online activists will gather in Chicago today for the start of the four-day Yearly Kos Convention, with many more attending online. The Yearly Kos Convention is named after Daily Kos, a political blog that brings liberal Democratic activists together and has a larger daily readership than most major newspapers....

News from Neptune is a radio program about the news of the week and its coverage by the media. News from Neptune is hosted by C. G. Estabrook and P. Mueth and produced by J. B. Nicholson-Owens at the studios of WEFT, 90.1 FM, in Champaign, Illinois USA. The show is named in honor of Noam Chomsky, who said, "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."...