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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 April 17, 2009

... MORE NEWSWIRE ...

U.S. Politics

"The Mendacity of Hope: The Obama Betrayal," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, Mar. 31, 2009

"Obama's Gordon Gekko Targets Union Workers," by David Sirota, Open Left, Mar. 31, 2009

"Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda," by John Nichols, The Nation, Mar. 30, 2009

"Workers Say Obama Treated Autos Worse Than Wall Street," Associated Press, Mar. 30, 2009

"Jim Webb's courage v. the "pragmatism" excuse for politicians," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Mar. 28, 2009

"Obama's Economic Plan: A Version of the Monopoly Game, But No One Loses," by William Greider, The Nation, Mar. 28, 2009

"Obamanomics Isn't About Big Government," by Robert Reich, Wall Street Journal, Mar. 28, 2009

"At What Point in History Did Antonin Scalia Become A Homophobe?," by Jack Balkin, Balkinization, Mar. 26, 2009

"Another Blow to Labor ... from the Democrats: Pulling the Teeth Out of Card Check," by Sharon Smith, Counterpunch, Mar. 26, 2009

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Economy

"Hundreds of French workers take bosses hostage," CNN, Mar. 31, 2009

"Blame Is Put on Management, but More Pain Looms for Hourly Workers, Retirees," Wall Street Journal, Mar. 31, 2009

"Time for a Grand Inquest on the Financial Crisis," by Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post, Mar. 31, 2009

"Sacrificing Left and Right," by Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future, Mar. 30, 2009

"Foreclosure Crisis Hits Warp Speed: 6 Million Families Face Losing Their Homes in the Next Three Years," by Nan Mooney, AlterNet, Mar. 30, 2009

"Obama Sets Deadline to Force GM, Chrysler Overhaul," Associated Press, Mar. 30, 2009

"Geithner's Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer," by Dean Baker, Truthout, Mar. 30, 2009

"G20 summit: Campaigners claim more money spent on car industry than tackling climate change," Telegraph/UK, Mar. 30, 2009

"When Banks Rob People: Geithner's Hog Wallow," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Mar. 27-29, 2009

"Mind the Wage Gap," by Terence Samuel, The American Prospect, Mar. 27, 2009

" The Market Wizards Were Exposed as Frauds -- Too Bad Obama's Team Still Believes in Their Magic," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Mar. 27, 2009

"Reform is needed. Reform is in the air. We can't afford to fail," by Joseph Stiglitz, Guardian/UK, Mar. 27, 2009

"Global Labor's G-20 Agenda," by Max Fraser, The Nation, Mar. 26, 2009

"AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right," by Matt Taibbi, AlterNet, Mar. 26, 2009

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Bush Regime

"Bush's Torture Rationale Debunked," by Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, Mar. 30, 2009

"Spanish judge to hear torture case against six Bush officials," Guardian/UK, Mar. 29, 2009

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International Affairs

"Syria Calling," by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, Apr. 6, 2009

"Seymour Hersh: Secret U.S. Forces Carried Out Assassinations in 'a Lot of' Countries, Including in Latin America," by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Mar. 28, 2009

"No to War, No to NATO," by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Mar. 30, 2009

"US hopes to engage with Iran on Afghanistan Tuesday," Reuters, Mar. 28, 2009

"Biden says U.S. does not plan to lift Cuba embargo," Reuters, Mar. 28, 2009

"The Fierce Urgency of Peace," by Roger Cohen, The New York Times, Mar. 26, 2009

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Another War Lost?," by William S. Lind, Antiwar.com, Mar. 31, 2009

"US seeks to reassure Sunni allies," Associated Press, Mar. 30, 2009

"The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq: 283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops and an Army of Mercenaries," by Jeremy Scahill, Counterpunch, Mar. 30, 2009

"What Next in Afghanistan?," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Mar. 30, 2009

"Obama's domino theory," by Juan Cole, SAlon, Mar. 30, 2009

"Af-Pak Fever: The Obamaites go to war," by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, Mar. 30, 2009

"The Great Afghan Bailout: It's Time to Change Names, Switch Analogies," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, Mar. 29, 2009

"Iraqi troops round up Sunni fighters in Baghdad," Associated Press, Mar. 29, 2009

"Official: Intel predicts rising Afghan violence," Associated Press, Mar. 28, 2009

"Some Strategists Cast Doubt on Afghan War Rationale," by Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, Mar. 28, 2009

"Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President," by Ray McGovern, Common Dreams, Mar. 28, 2009

"Obama Sets Qaeda Defeat as Top Goal in Afghanistan," Reuters, Mar. 27, 2009

"Obama's Afghan quagmire deepens," by Simon Tisdall, Guardian/UK, Mar. 22, 2009

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Civil Liberties

"ACLU: Let Spy Laws Fade Into the Sunset," by William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Mar. 31, 2009

"Torture taints all our lives," by Andy Worthington, Guardian/UK, Mar. 31, 2009

"Obstruction of Justice," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, Mar. 30, 2009

"Information Secured Through Torture Proved Unreliable, CIA Concluded," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Mar. 29, 2009

"Torture News Roundup: A Woman Tortured?," Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, The New York Times, Mar. 29, 2009

"Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots," Washington Post, Mar. 29, 2009

"Pretending to be civilized in an epidemic of institutional sadism," by Pierre Tristam, Daytona Beach News-Journal (Florida), Mar. 29, 2009

"Police murders in Oakland," by Carl Finamore, ZNet, Mar. 28, 2009

"After Binyam Mohamed, MI5 is now accused of role in more torture cases," Guardian/UK, Mar. 28, 2009

"A Letter to Obama From a Guantánamo Uighur," by Andy Worthington, Counterpunch, Mar. 27-29, 2009

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Environment and Sustainability

"Syncrude Triples Number of Dead Ducks From Oil Sands," The Globe and Mail/Canada, Mar. 31, 2009

"Big Coal Defeat! Rednecks and Greens Announce Victory at Blair Mountain," by Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post, Mar. 31, 2009

"Winds of Change Evident in U.S. Environmental Policy," Washington Post, Mar. 30, 2009

"Clean energy revolution waits for economic winds to shift," McClatchy Newspapers, Mar. 29, 2009

"Access to Water: A Human Right or a Human Need?," Environment News Service, Mar. 27, 2009

"Sydney to San Fran: Lights dim in Earth Hour," MSNBC, Mar. 27, 2009

"Nuclear Industry Targets State Laws," by Diane Farsetta, Common Dreams, Mar. 27, 2009

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Media Issues

"Who's watching the statehouse?," by Dunstan McNichol, Newsosaur, Mar. 29, 2009

"Newsweek's unintentionally revealed, central truth," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Mar. 29, 2009

"Consolidation won't save the media," by Craig Aaron, Guardian/UK, Mar. 26, 2009

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Activism

"A J'accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence," by John Nichols, The Nation, Mar. 29, 2009

"Remembering Abbie Hoffman" by Howard Lisnoff, ZNet, Mar. 29, 2009

"G20 Protesters Face Police with Tasers," TimesOnline/UK, Mar. 29, 2009

"A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him," by Robert Fisk, Independent/UK, Mar. 28, 2009

"That's No Angry Mob, It's a Movement," by Michael Winship, Common Dreams, Mar. 28, 2009

"Police Trying to 'Smear' Peaceful G20 Protests," TimesOnline/UK, Mar. 28, 2009

"Why Is a Progressive Think Tank Telling Obama to Escalate the War in Afghanistan?," by Tom Hayden, Huffington Post, Mar. 27, 2009

"How Obama Took Over the Peace Movement," by John Stauber, PR Watch, Mar. 27, 2009

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