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Bush is asserting the right of the United States to attack any country that may be a threat to it in five years. And the right of the United States to evaluate that risk and respond in its sole discretion. And the right of the president to make that decision on behalf of the United States in his sole discretion. In short, the president can start a war against anyone at any time, and no one has the right to stop him. And presumably other nations and future presidents have that same right. All formal constraints on war-making are officially defunct... George W. Bush is now the
closest thing in a long time to dictator of the world. He claims to see the future as clearly as the past.
-- Michael Kinsley, from "Unauthorized Entry," (posted on Slate Magazine, Thursday, March 20, 2003)
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Category: Start / Social/Political News & Activism / Alternative News & Activism
links to alternative media, not the giants
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TruthOut Media Page 
includes lots of great films and clips: "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre" (by Sigfrido Ranucci, RAINews24, 11.08.05); tear-filled eyes of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard interviewed by Tim Russert (Meet the Press, 09.07.05); and more
Added on: 06-Dec-2005 | hits: 2664
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TruthOut
offers original content as well as underreported news and views from around the globe. Also offers a daily email service
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 386
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The Progressive
a journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad. A champion of peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 404
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The Nation
"The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred." from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865
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The Independent
home of the single best journalist covering the Iraq war, Robert Fisk
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 346
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The Guardian
the UK's most popular newspaper website
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RafahToday.org
"My name is Mohammed, I'm a student and I live in Rafah [in Gaza]. On this website, I present photos and reports about my home town, about our life, our community, the home demolitions, homeless families, the children in our camp.. About the tragedies that happen here every day"
Added on: 21-May-2004 | hits: 372
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Moyers: "The Secret Government" [video]
"Bill Moyers documents U.S. support of terrorist regimes and the brutality of America's foreign policy"
Added on: 04-Jun-2004 | hits: 858
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Mother Jones
an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 342
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MOSAIC -- Link TV [video]
"a daily news program from Link TV present[ing] a selection of news programs from independent and state-controlled broadcasters from throughout the Middle East"
Added on: 20-May-2004 | hits: 1123
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Internet Archive [video, audio]
a site hosting a number of important media, including the DemocracyNow! archive, open source movies, texts, and films such as Despotism, a 10-minute 1946 Encyclopaedia Britannica Film whose narrator denies that "the mere form of government can safeguard a nation against despotism" (witness early 20th century Germany), and goes on: "When a competent observer looks for signs of despotism ... he looks behind fine words and noble phrases" (as we hear the Pledge of Allegiance fade in: "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and juste for all").
Added on: 08-May-2004 | hits: 900
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Inter Press Service News Agency
"a leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries"
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 369
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Greg Palast - "What Really Happened in Florida?" [video]
Greg Palast's expose of the Florida election debacle of 2000 for the BBC News Night program
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Global Exchange
"an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice"
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 334
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Global Beat: Resources for the Global Journalist
Global Beat Syndicate (GBS) offers new thinking on the issues and trends that are changing our world: ethnic wars, economic globalization, proliferating weapons, global crime and corruption, refugees and migration, the rise of NGOs, and more
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 512
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Electroniciraq
online news project, Electronic Iraq has been launched by veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness and respected Middle East supplementary news publishers
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 385
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DemocracyNow! [video, audio]
home of the award winning radio program focuses on a range of issues hat demand attention, highlighting grassroots efforts to enhance and ignite democracy. Check out Pacifica Radio, the host network of Democracy Now! Inlcudes a Kucinich interview
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 762
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CounterPunch
a bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month they bring readers the stories that the corporate press never prints
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 330
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CommonDreams
breaking news and views for the progressive community
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BBC's "Screams of Sudan's starving refugees" [video]
by Hilary Andersson (BBC Africa correspondent): The 15-month long conflict in Sudan's western province of Darfur has produced what the United Nations is calling "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world"
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Ariel Sharon Responsible for Massacre [includes BBC video]
"the man who is now Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, sent Lebanese militiamen into the Palestine refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla. When they left 36 hours later at least 800 people lay dead after a rampage of murder, torture and rape"
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AlterNet
a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism
Added on: 12-Sep-2003 | hits: 343
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6 million die in CIA wars [video]
"America's Third World War: How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against third world countries"; John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush spent 13 years in the agency, and here gives a short history of CIA covert operations; he's the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions; 6:05
Added on: 02-Jul-2004 | hits: 833
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"Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War" [video]
this 87-minute Robert Greenwald documentary presents "an impressive roster of experts is assembled to provide a generally withering commentary on the quality of evidence and possible motivations of the Neo-conservatives who provided the momentum and muscle behind America's venture into preemptive war. Among them are veteran CIA analysts and operatives, military officers, diplomats, politicians, arms inspectors, and U.S. and British government officials. The fig leaf of the possibility of an honest mistake on the matter of WMDs is stripped away; what is left is the stark and disturbing anatomy of deliberate deceit"
Added on: 04-Jul-2004 | hits: 987
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"U.S. Intervention in the Middle East"
"Why do people in the Middle East hate the United States? ... This partial chronology of U.S. intervention in the Middle East illustrates the lengths to which the U.S. power structure has gone to gain and maintain U.S. domination of the Middle East ... not a complete list of the invasions, bombings, assassinations, coups and other interventions by the U.S. government, its allies, or its client states" -- from Revolutionary Worker #1125, November 4, 2001
Added on: 13-Jun-2004 | hits: 440
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"The Take"
chronicles successful Argentinian workers' alternative to global capitalism; Director/producer Avi Lewis (of Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (author of No Logo)
Added on: 13-Jun-2004 | hits: 387
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"The Panama Deception" [video]
"this film shows how the U.S. attacked Panama and killed 3 or 4 thousand people in an invasion that the rest of the world was against. (Sound familiar?) It won the Academy Award for best documentary"
Added on: 12-May-2004 | hits: 902
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"The Myth of the Liberal Media" [video]
"The Propaganda Model of News: Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the 'liberal media'. Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of 'elite propaganda'"; Real Player: 59:36
Added on: 06-Jul-2004 | hits: 1399
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"The Hidden Face of Globalization" [video]
preview of the National Labor Committee's brief documentary of Disney garment workers in Bangladesh who, after rent, is left with 53 cents per day on which to live
Added on: 27-May-2004 | hits: 1284
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"The Damage Done" photo essay on U.S. Iraq War vets
"It's easy to send soldiers off to war. It's a lot harder to face them when they come home."
Added on: 13-Nov-2004 | hits: 742
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"The Bush Family Fortunes" [video]
"the BBC and Greg Palast, Investigate the Bush family scandals"; 56:21
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"John Negroponte" from Disinfopedia.org
the history of this Reagan-Bush anti-democratic propagandist in Grenada, Honduras, and much more ...
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"Exposed: The Carlyle Group" [video]
Note: The first one minute forty seven seconds of this program is in broadcast in Dutch, The remainder is in English; translation of the first one minute forty seven seconds of this program: "The war in Iraq is over. The rubble is still smoking while the first dozers are already entering the country. After the coalition forces destroyed Baghdad it is now primarily American companies who are to rebuild Iraq. An interesting point is that these companies usually have people on the payroll who have been politicians. Is this a conflict of interests or a new (global) way of doing business? One of the corporations that work this way is the Carlyle Group. On their payroll are people like: George Bush (Sr.), James Baker III, and old premier John Major. The Carlyle Group is a private investment bank which doesn't come to the public's attention very often; but it is one of the biggest American (ed: USA) investors of the defense industry, telecom, property and financial services. What is the Carlyle Group? Who are the people behind the name? And how much power does Carlyle have?" 48:53
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"Dead in the Water" BBC investigative report [video]
broadcast Saturday 17 May 2003; "during the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats"
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"Darfur Destroyed" [video]
from Human Rights Watch, 2004
Added on: 04-Jun-2004 | hits: 973
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"Breaking The Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror" [video]
John Pilger's documentary on the war on terror: Breaking The Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror from Britain's itv1. Part I is largely about the aftermath of the bombing of Afghanistan. Part II is exposes the U.S.' creation of Osama bin Laden, previous deadly interventions, the School of the Americas, detainees in Afghanistan, U.S. sale of WMDs to Saddam Hussein, the lack of threat by Hussein, the civilian suffering in Iraq after the March, 2003 bombing (at the 38th-39th minute), and interviews with Douglas Feith (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy) and John Bolton (Under Secretary, Arms Control and International Security). (52 minutes)
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"Bangladesh: An Appeal For Solidarity" [video]
"eight-minute video ... aimed towards students interested in taking action towards sweatshop-made university garments; it provides background on living and working conditions in the country" (while the main link is QuickTime format, here's Windows Media)
Added on: 27-May-2004 | hits: 1302
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"Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death" [video]
"produced and directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran[,] the film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops were complicit in the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War"
Added on: 29-May-2004 | hits: 1677
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1816
First use of term "scab" to refer to strike-breakers by Albany Typographical Society, Albany, NY.
1884
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, born.
1936
Buenaventura Durruti, the famous Spanish anarchist, shot in the lung the day before, dies. Durruti's body was taken to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by over 500,000 people.
1980
President Carter briefs incoming President Reagan for over an hour on various secret matters in which the government is currently involved; Reagan is disengaged throughout the briefing and clearly bored, he takes no notes and his only comment is an expression of envy for South Korean dictator Park's power to crackdown on student protests by closing the universities and drafting the students.
1983
Reagan administration propaganda regarding the supposed survivability of nuclear war leads over 100 million Americans to watch the miniseries The Day After on ABC.
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