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"Giving Voice to Dissent: Bridgeport's WPKN Radio Covers The News With Left-Of-Center Takes Not Found In The Mainstream Media" Hartford Courant, Feb. 26, 2003

"The Rest of the News," New Haven Advocate, July 3, 2003


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For The Week Ending Dec. 26, 2008

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U.S. Politics

"Capitalist Fools" by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Vanity Fair, Jan., 2009

"Illinois Governor Taken into Custody for Abusing His Authority to Appoint Obama Successor," Think Progress, Dec. 9, 2008

"What's with Obama's Deputy Telling Progressives to Pipe Down?," by David Sirota, Open Left, Dec. 9, 2008

"Feds: Governor tried to 'auction' Obama's seat," NBC News, Dec. 9, 2008

"Is Obama Backing Off a Crucial Pledge to Labor?: Bait and Switch on the Employee Free Choice Act," by Steve Early, Counterpunch, Dec. 8, 2008

"Gen. Hayden and the claimed irrelevance of presidential appointments," by Glen Greenwald, Salon, Dec. 8, 2008

"Liberals voice concerns about Obama," Politico, Dec. 8, 2008

"Obama May Tap a Strong Progressive to Manage Our Wilderness," by Roberto Lovato, AlterNet, Dec. 6, 2008

"Where Is the Left?," by Terence Samuel, The American Prospect, Dec. 5, 2008

"Shall We Call it a Depression Now?," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Dec. 5, 2008

"Foreclosures soar 76% to record 1.35 million," CNN, Dec. 5, 2008

"Obama's Familiar Orbit," by Michael Winship, Common Dreams, Dec. 5, 2008

"Jobless Rate Rises to 6.7% as 533,000 Jobs Are Lost," The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2008

"Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation," by Jeremy Scahill, Common Dreams, Dec. 5, 2008

"Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model," By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group, Dec. 4, 2008

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Bush Regime

" Who's at fault for harsh antiterror tactics?," Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 9, 2008

" Legal Scholars Outraged by Talk of Blanket Pardons," Washington Independent, Dec. 8, 2008

" Lies and Deception George Bush Style," by Christopher Brauchli, Common Dreams, Dec. 6, 2008

"Bush the Infallible," by Eugene Robinson, TruthDig, Dec. 5, 2008

"Bush's Pity Party," by Matthew Yglesias, The American Prospect, Dec. 4, 2008

"Mukasey Sees No Necessity for Pardons in Terror War," The New York Times, Dec. 3, 2008

"Obama should prosecute Bush officials who designed torture policy," by Michael Ratner, The Progressive, Dec. 3, 2008

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American Empire/War Profiteering

"Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug," by Eugene Robinson, TruthDig, Dec. 9, 2008

"Javier Ponce, Poet and Defence Minister, Takes On the CIA in Ecuador," by Jose Steinsleger, ZNet Dec. 9, 2008

"Somalia: War Crimes Devastate Population," Human Rights Watch, Dec. 8, 2008

"One thriving sector: The business of war," Boston Globe, Dec. 6, 2008

"KBR Kept Foreign Contractors in Squalid Warehouses for Months," McClatchy Newspapers, Dec. 5, 2008

"Suit Claims Halliburton, KBR Sickened Base," Army Times, Dec. 5, 2008

"Cloak-and-Dagger, Inc.: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing," Inter Press Service, Dec. 5, 2008

"Obama Should Make a Clean Break With the Past on Latin America," by Mark Weisbrot, Common Dreams, Dec. 3, 2008

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Kinzer: Surge Diplomacy, Not Troops, in Afghanistan," by Robert Naiman, Common Dreams, Dec. 9, 2008

"Talking to a Lashkar Militant," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 8, 2008

"NATO says no Afghan winter lull in fight with Taliban," Reuters, Dec. 8, 2008

"The Silent Winter of Escalation," by Norman Solomon, Common Dreams, Dec. 1, 2008

"5 Guards Face US Charges in Iraq Deaths," The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2008

"US preparing for troop buildup in Afghanistan," Associated Press, Dec. 5, 2008

"Campaign Promises on Ending the War in Iraq Now Muted by Reality," The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2008

"Who Are the Taliban?: The Afghan War Deciphered," by Tom Engelhardt & Anand Gopal, TomDispatch.com, Dec. 4, 2008

"Obama Faced With Iraq Detainee Human Rights Debacle," by Nick Mottern & Bill Rau, Truthout, Dec. 3, 2008

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Civil Liberties

"Five 9/11 Suspects Offer to Confess: But Proposal Is Pulled Over Death Penalty Issue," Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2008

"Closing Guantanamo a minefield of critical steps," McClatchy Newspapers, Dec. 8, 2008

"Spying on Pacifists, Environmentalists and Nuns," by Los Angeles Times, Dec. 7, 2008

"Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Dec. 4, 2008

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Environment and Sustainability

"Victims of Global Warming Could Sue Oil and Power Companies," Telegraph/UK, Dec. 9, 2008

"Interest in water management blossoms," San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 6, 2008

"Junk Cap-and-Trade: Obama Should Impose a Carbon Tax," by Ralph Nader & Toby Heaps, Counterpunch, Dec. 5/7, 2008

"Efficiency Is Our Best Untapped Energy Source," by Carole Bass, Yale Environment 360, Dec. 5, 2008

"Pollution 'could kill as many as climate change' warns Met Office," Telegraph/UK, Dec. 5, 2008

"Paying Our Climate Debt," by V, Foreign Policy in Focus, Dec. 4, 2008

"Highest U.S. Court Ponders Power Plants and Fish Protection," Environment News Service, Dec. 4, 2008

"Bail US Out of the Fossil Fuel Economy," by Karyn Strickler, Common Dreams, Dec. 3, 2008

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Media Issues

"Obama's Broadband Roadmap," by Timothy Karr, Huffington Post, Dec. 9, 2008

"The CIA and its reporter friends: Anatomy of a backlash," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Dec. 8, 2008

"KBDI refuses to delay airing of Guantanamo torture documentary," Colorado Independent, Dec. 8, 2008

"The Blogging Revolution: A Look at the Repression of Online Journalism Around the World," Democracy Now!, Dec. 5, 2008

"Critics Rap MSNBC, Matthews," by Michael Calderone, Politico, Dec. 5, 2008

"Obama Copyright Move Cheers Advocacy Groups," The National Journal, Dec. 5, 2008

"Berlusconi Plans to Use G8 Presidency to "Regulate the Internet,'" Register/UK, Dec. 3, 2008

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Activism

"No Dreams, Only Nightmares: The UAW in Peril," by David Macaray, Counterpunch Dec. 9, 2008

"A Classic Battle for Workers' Rights: Raising the Stakes at Republic " by Lee Sustar & Nicole Colson, Counterpunch, Dec. 9, 2008

"Bank of America's Greed Sparked the Eye-Opening Worker's Strike in Chicago," by John Woodruff Jr., Portside, Dec. 9, 2008

"Chicago Factory Sit-In: A Symbol of What's Wrong and What's Needed," by Peter Dreier, Huffington Post, Dec. 9, 2008

"Prop. 8 foes set 'Day Without a Gay' boycott," San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 9, 2008

"Workers Occupy Chicago Factory: Echoes of Argentina's 2001 Worker Uprising," by Benjamin Dangl, Common Dreams, Dec. 9, 2008

"The Chicago Sit-Down Strike: The Spark We Need," by Daniel Gross, Counterpunch, Dec. 8, 2008

"Chicago Factory Layoffs Are a 'Wake-Up Call to America,'" Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 8, 2008

"Making a New New Deal: Sitdown Strike in Chicago," by John Nichols, The Nation, Dec. 7, 2008

"Angry Laid-Off Workers Occupy Factory in Chicago," Associated Press, Dec. 7, 2008

"Community Organizers Attend Washington Event," Ventura County Star (California), Dec. 5, 2008

"Financial Crisis Could Herald a Renaissance of Radical Thought," by David Williamson, WalesOnline, Dec. 4, 2008

"Community Organizers Press Obama for Real Change," by Ira Chernus, Common Dreams, Dec. 3, 2008

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