Media
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BOOKS: 'Love in the Time of Dinosaurs' An interview with author Kirsten Alene (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 2, 2011 -- Dinosaurs and insightful writers... or am I being redundant? Well, I'm happy to say reports of their mutual demise have been greatly exaggerated. Case ...
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'America Plops and Fizzes' An interview with poet, Andrew Rihn (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 29, 2011 -- Some guy named Percy Shelley once said poets were the "unacknowledged legislators of the world." So, I'm thinking maybe Percy's been hanging out in ...
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Egypt's Internet goes dark during political unrest (Declan McCullagh)
Jan. 27, 2011 (CNET) -- Egypt has gone offline. In a stunning development unprecedented in the modern history of the Internet, a country of more than 80 million people has found itself almost ...
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Failure of Academia: The Book that Was Not Meant to Be Published (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 13, 2011 -- Deepak Tripathi’s most recent book, Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (Potomac Books) raises several issues, both ...
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Ain't That America (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 12, 2011 -- I've heard through the grapevine that the media feeding frenzy is in full swing. The shooting. The shooting! The shooting. But the shooting is ...
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Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand (Steve Almond)
Jan. 10, 2011 (The Rumpus) -- It’s a sunny winter day in Tucson, Arizona. There’s an event being held in the parking lot of a supermarket called Safeway. The local member of congress, a woman named ...
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A note from Joe Bageant -- Update Feb. 12
Jan. 4, 2011 -- Dear friends, associates and fellow travelers, As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer. Presently I am back in the United States ...
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Ibargüen Video on Journalism and New Media (Chuck Gregory)
This from another Wesleyan alum, albeit before my time there. I thought Alberto's views were highly relevant to the way news reporting has changed in the last few years. Alberto Ibargüen ’66, P’97 ...
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America Has Gone Away (Paul Craig Roberts)
Dec. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). ...
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2011 (Paul Craig Roberts)
”Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.” - -Lewis H. Lapham Dec. 28, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more ...
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The Collapse Of Human Civilization As We Know It -- Scenarios And Potential Solutions (Dale Tavris)
Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Dec. 1, 2010 -- Human civilization as we know it will come to an end in the foreseeable future. We don’t know exactly when or how. It may be soon. It ...
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