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The International Labor Communication Association will be setting up a labor media center in New Orleans from October 18-20. Plans are being made to stream stories about the privatization of the schools, housing and union busting....

Thursday, September 6, 2007 :Timed to coincide with the reconvening of Congress and the renewal of the fraudulent official “debate” on the Iraq war, Time magazine has published an edition with a cover story entitled “The Case for National Service.” The coincidence is hardly accidental. It underscores the political fact that behind the squabbling between the Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress over the best means for ensuring “success’ in Iraq, there is a growing consens...

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Tucker Carlson appeared with Joe Scarborough last night on Dan Abrams' MSNBC Live (click thru for video) to discuss Larry Craig's speech. Normally I rarely watch Tucker; he never fails to irritate. But Abrams' program is frequent evening viewing for us, as he directly follows Olbermann, and Olbermann is a must-see (my teenage son loves his show especially}....

San Francisco - As college students across the country head back to class this fall, they need to worry about more than keeping up on their schoolwork. The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) continues to target college campuses for hundreds of new lawsuits each month. Meanwhile, under pressure from the recording industry, universities are instituting draconian punishments for students suspected of sharing music files. At the same time, the RIAA continues to sue file sharers off campus, with...

Originally From New America Media Tuesday, August 28, 2007 : ANN ARBOR — Arab Americans tired of the lethal hate messages of talk radio can look to Colorado for an antidote. In last week’s edition of "The Arab American News," writer Ali Moossavi pointed out that “Islamophobia…has indeed become a largely acceptable form of racism, as pernicious as it is....

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 :In an editorial published on August 20, the New York Times spells out the consensus policy of the liberal, Democratic Party wing of the American political establishment for an escalation of the US military intervention in Afghanistan. The thrust of the editorial is indicated by its title, “The Good War, Still to be Won.” The basic policy prescription is summed up in the following lines: “America has never had enough troops in Afghanistan, not in 2001, when Osama bi...

Saturday, August 18, 2007 :The New York Times on August 16 published an editorial in response to reports that the Bush administration plans to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization. The editorial by the organ of the liberal, Democratic Party wing of the US political establishment, entitled “Amateur Hour on Iran,” exemplifies the hypocritical and two-faced character of its critique of the Bush administration’s policy toward Iran and the Middle East as a whol...

Amnesty International is greatly concerned about reports of the intimidation and harassment of journalists and human rights defenders because of their coverage of drug trafficking in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau....

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 :The New York Times on August 13 published an editorial entitled “Wrong Way Out of Iraq” that unambiguously argues in favor of an indefinite US military presence in Iraq and against any significant reduction in troop levels. The editorial cites the British government’s decision to pull out all but 5,000 of its original contingent of 30,000 troops and restation the remaining units at a relatively secure airbase outside of Basra as an example of what the US should not...