I’ve been reading a few articles on the “alternative” media which really have me thinking. One, by Chris Hedges entitled “Rise Up or Die” made me think about just how bad things really are nowadays here in the USA. The other article by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, “You are The …
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”Liberal media bias” is one of those axiomatic slanders that is self-evident among conservative believers. Seldom do progressives respond in any way more meaningful than a shrug or a headshake. At the risk of refuting the absurd, once again, I must address a popular myth. Numerous analytical studies have …
The Boston Marathon bombing is a case study in ways the media shape what we know–or, more accurately, what we think we know—about issues and events occurring in and/or having impact on our everyday lives. Leid Stories conducts a media literacy class to shore up listeners’ acuity as consumers of …
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Suppressing 9/11 Truth in the Mainstream Media, Demonizing the Messenger “It’s easy to take an issue like the 9/11 truth movement and demonize it…that happened in the election of 2008. Even though at the time it was a rising tide and growing numbers of people… had actually rejected the …
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Punk rock, media monoculture, and the economy of attention: a talk with Antonio Lopez, author of The Media Ecosystem. www.themediaecosystem.com originally aired on 08/16/12 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.5MB) | Embed
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Listeners offer their analyses of major issues of the day, as well as topics that escaped media attention. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.4MB) | Embed
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Anything strike you as strange about media coverage of the raging gun-violence/gun-control debate in the United States? Here’s a clue: It’s a shutout. Leid Stories explains how and why mainstream media outlets — and many alternative media outlets, too — propagate and reinforce racist narratives that ultimately affect not only …
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By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations. Financial critics have provided abundant …
He’s made Israel more unfit to live in than any of his predecessors. Palestinians have no rights whatever. Israeli Arabs have few. Most Jews are losing theirs incrementally. Neoliberal harshness plans destroying Israel’s safety net entirely. Budget cuts target housing, healthcare, education, employment and welfare. Labor rights are eroding. So …
Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland’s intelligence service, European national security sources said. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Britain are among those who were warned by Swiss authorities …
When the smartest guys in the room designed their credit default swaps, they forgot to ask one thing – what if the parties on the other side of the bet don’t have the money to pay up? Credit default swaps (CDS) are insurance-like contracts that are sold as protection against default …
Industry leaders will have no problem closing nuclear reactors that don’t generate expected profits. Exelon, the Chicago-based company that owns 17 of the 104 U.S. reactors, recently saw its stock price drop below $30 a share, the same level as mid-2003, and a whopping 70% below its peak of over …
Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States. Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to …
If this weren’t so terrible, it would be funny. The Administration is worried that there won’t be a fiscal cliff deal by year end. Per Bloomberg: The co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission said it’s unlikely the president and Congress will reach a deal by the end of this …