Tuesday, December 14, 2004

HERE NOW THE LATEST NEWS OF THE WEEK

KANSAS FOOLED, AGAIN
Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com
Immediately after the election, the Republican-led Congress convened in Washington, dropped their culture war, and passed a gigantic spending bill loaded with corporate pork.
http://alternetheadlines.c.topica.com/maacX8YabcwrUbmSAT1baeQBp9/

THE SINCLAIR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet
Owned by Bush-backers, an emboldened Sinclair Broadcasting is pushing forward with its right-wing agenda. It's time to push back.
http://alternetheadlines.c.topica.com/maacX8YabcwrMbmSAT1baeQBp9/

DISCOVERING DARFUR
Joanne Mariner, AlterNet
Sneaking into "liberated" Darfur, an American finds people dying of disease, hunger and international apathy.
http://alternetheadlines.c.topica.com/maacX8YabcwrObmSAT1baeQBp9/

GARY WEBB, R.I.P.
Robert Parry, Consortium News
The real tragedy of journalist Webb's historic gift an of his life cut short, is that because of the major news media’s cowardice, a dark chapter of the Reagan-Bush era remains largely unknown to the American people.
http://alternetheadlines.c.topica.com/maacX8YabcwrPbmSAT1baeQBp9/

PBS' FUTURE POST-MOYERS
Jeffrey Chester, AlterNet
As PBS lobbies for a billion-dollar trust fund, it's time to challenge the status quo.
http://alternetheadlines.c.topica.com/maacX8YabcwMkbmSAT1baeQBp9/

FROM DYLAN TO THE BLACKLIST
Mike Miliard, Boston Phoenix
Al Aronowitz says the 1960's wouldn't have been the same without him. Now the Blacklisted Journalist who's found an outlet on the Internet looks back from his cluttered New Jersey apartment.
http://alternetheadlines.c.topica.com/maacX8YabcwrRbmSAT1baeQBp9/

A DAUGHTER SULLIES HER FATHER'S LEGACY
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. may have praised his daughter for having the courage and conviction to march for her anti-gay beliefs, bigotry is still bigotry.
http://alternetheadlines.c.topica.com/maacX8YabcwrTbmSAT1baeQBp9/

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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