From the monthly archives:

September 2008

09-30-08

September 30, 2008

Dr. Paul Larudee: co-founder of FreeGaza.org. Michael Ratner: is an attorney, adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School, and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in New York, New York. Jason Leopold: investigative journalist. He writes for the online publication The Public Record. Free [...]

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09-29-08

September 30, 2008

Anna Aurilio: Legislative Director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), as well as the Director of the DC office for Environment America responsible for policy development, research and advocacy on energy issues and anti-environmental subsidies. Jameel Jaffer: litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union and Director of the ACLU’s National Security Program. [...]

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09-26-08

September 26, 2008

Robert Parry: founder of ConsortiumNews.com.  His new book is called “Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush”. Rinku Sen: publisher of Colorlines magazine and Communications Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC), she has a rich history of organizing, writing and lecturing on issues of race, gender and activism. Prop 8 debate: Shall [...]

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09-25-08

September 25, 2008

Tim Carpenter: director of Progressive Democrats of America, is a social and political activist who, for more than 30 years, has worked for causes such as nuclear disarmament, death penalty abolition, defending the homeless, and campaign finance reform. Faiz Shakir: Research Director at The Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org. Naomi [...]

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09-24-08

September 25, 2008

Paul Waldman: author of four books on media and politics. His latest is called “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media”. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects at Media Matters for America. He is also a columnist for The American Prospect. You [...]

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09-23-08

September 23, 2008

Katherine Gun: a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the “crime” of telling the truth. She was charged with leaking an embarrassing U.S. intelligence memo indicating that the U.S. had mounted a spying “surge” against U.N. delegations in early 2003 in an effort to win approval of the Iraq war [...]

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09-22-08

September 23, 2008

Jim Moore: Emmy-winning former television news correspondent and the co-author of the bestselling book, Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. Brent Budowsky: From the mid-1970′s to 1990 Brent Budowsky served in senior Congressional Staff positions including Legislative Assistant to former U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and Legislative Director to Representative Bill Alexander, [...]

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09-19-08

September 19, 2008

Robert Parry: founder of ConsortiumNews.com.  His new book is called “Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush”. Robert Dreyfuss: freelance investigative journalist whose work appears in The Nation, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, and other progressive publications.  His work also appears in the new blog “Dreyfuss Report“. Danny Schechter: television producer, [...]

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BushCo Bailout Bonanza!

September 19, 2008

So I woke up this morning, flipped on the tube, and there was our NeoCon-in-chief, trying to restore confidence in the markets.  Flanked by his E-Con team of Bernanke, Paulson and Cox, he announced a new episode in the Wall Street soap opera.  The plan is kinda fuzzy, but the bottom line isn’t:  the federal [...]

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McKeating 5

September 19, 2008

Thursday, John McCain, the small government maverick reformer guy, proposed a whole new agency to rescue America’s bad loans from the good lenders who never imagined their hot paper would go up in smoke as Americans lose up to 40% of their home equities.  The “Mortgage and Financial Institutions Trust” which he acronym-ed as “MFI” [...]

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