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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 Oct. 23, 2009

... MORE NEWSWIRE ...

U.S. Politics

"The Rabbit Ragu Democrats," by Frank Rich, The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2009

"War Kills Off Great Reform Movements," by E.J. Dionne, TruthDig, Oct. 4, 2009

"Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Oct. 4, 2009

"'Socialism' and Sham in the Senate," by Joe Conason, Truthout, Oct. 2, 2009

"Revealed: millions spent by lobby firms fighting Obama health reforms," Guardian/UK, Oct. 1, 2009

"Who's in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?," by David Sirota, TruthDig, Oct. 1, 2009

"Dick Gephardt's Spectacular Sellout," by Sebastian Jones, The Nation, Sept. 30, 2009

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Economy

"Secret Plan to Ditch the U.S. Dollar's Dominance Uncovered," by Robert Fisk, Independent UK, Oct. 6, 2009

"Specifically, What Should Be Done For Jobs?," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Oct. 5, 2009

"Lawyers scarce for poor facing foreclosure," USA Today, Oct. 5, 2009

"Welcome to the US Economy: Dead Man Walking," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Oct. 5, 2009

"Wall Street Titans Use Aliases to Foreclose on Families While Partnering With a Federal Agency," by Pam Martens, Counterpunch, Oct. 5, 2009

"Banks 1, America 0," by Dean Baker, Guardian/UK, Oct. 5, 2009

"Government watchdog says Treasury and Fed knew bailed-out banks were not healthy," ABC News, Oct. 5, 2009

"US FDIC Chief: "Too Big to Fail" Must End for All," Reuters, Oct. 5, 2009

"Follow the Money: Cure Millions of Leprosy -- or Just Give Hank Paulson a Tax Break?," by Tom Engelhardt & Matt Bivens, TomDispatch, Oct. 4, 2009

"Firms are getting billions, but homeowners still in trouble," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 4, 2009

"Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses and Economic Devastation Are Behind America's Latest Workplace Shooting," by Mark Ames, AlterNet, Sept. 28, 2009

"Unemployment Rate Is Highest in 26 Years," by Dean Baker, Center for Economic & Policy Research, Oct. 2, 2009

"Saturn: Why one of Detroit's brightest hopes failed," Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 1, 2009

"What Recession? As the Economy Crashed Around Them, 400 Richest Americans Lined Their Pockets with $30 Billion," by Les Leopold, AlterNet, Oct. 1, 2009

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Bush Accountability

"The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order's René Balcer," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Oct. 5, 2009

"The Generals vs. The Cheneys," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Oct. 1, 2009

"The Hayden Letter," by John Prados, Foreign Policy in Focus, Sept. 29, 2009

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International Affairs

"Iran OKs inspection; U.S. pleased with talks," USA Today, Oct. 4, 2009

"Iran's Nuclear Program: Where's the Proof?," by Brian Cloughley, Counterpunch, Oct. 2-4, 2009

"US-Iran: Geneva Talks Seen as Potential Breakthrough," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Oct. 2, 2009

"Real Progress With Iran," by Gary Sick, The Daily Beast, Oct. 2, 2009

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Gates to Army: We'll follow Obama's orders on Afghanistan," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 5, 2009

"Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan," Telegraph/UK, Oct. 5, 2009

"Deadly Attack By Taliban Tests New Strategy," Wasington Post, Oct. 5, 2009

"8 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Bold Attack in Afghanistan," The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2009

"What I Saw at the Afghan Election," by Peter W. Galbraith, Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2009

"Report Cites Firefight as Lesson on Afghan War," The New York Times, Oct. 2, 2009

"White House Signals Afghan Exit Strategy?," by David Corn, Mother Jones, Oct. 2, 2009

"Why Afghanistan," by Ed Corcoran, Foreign Policy in Focus, Oct. 1, 2009

"Decision Point: Afghanistan," by Erik Leaver, Foreign Policy in Focus, Oct. 1, 2009

"An Open Letter to President Obama: Achieving America's Objectives in Afghanistan," by William R. Polk, The Nation, Sept. 30, 2009

"'We Deeply Regret...,'" by Conn Hallinan, Sept. 30, 2009

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Civil Liberties

"Court Documents Reveal Existence of New Torture Tapes," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Oct. 6, 2009

"Watch What You Tweet" by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, Oct. 6, 2009

"PATRIOT Act Fight Needs More Patriots," by Kelley B. Vlahos, Antiwar.com, Oct. 6, 2009

"Announcing National Use Zazi to Gain New Surveillance Powers Day!," by Marcy Wheeler, Firedoglake, Oct. 6, 2009

"Arrest Puts Focus on Protesters' Texting," The New York Times, Oct. 5, 2009

"How an Innocent Man Was Tortured Into Making False Confessions," by Andy Worthington, CounterPunch, Oct. 5, 2009

"Men arrested for G-20 Twittering say it's free speech," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 4, 2009

"New York man accused of using Twitter to direct protesters during G20 summit," Guardian/UK, Oct. 4, 2009

"Rethink the Patriot Act: Let's restore constitutional safeguards, protect civil liberties," by Susan Goering, Baltimore Sun, Oct. 4, 2009

"Detainee's Case Illustrates Bind of Prison's Fate," The New York Times, Oct. 3, 2009

"Detainees Face Severe Conditions if Moved to U.S.," Washington Post, Oct. 3, 2009

"Big police depts back anti-terror citizen watch," Associated Press, Oct. 3, 2009

"Is Perry trying to cover up wrongful execution in Texas?," Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas), Oct. 2, 2009

"Real Reform for the PATRIOT Act?," by Julian Sanchez, The American Prospect, Oct. 1, 2009

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Environment and Sustainability

"With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces an Onslaught of Wastewater," ProPublica, Oct. 4, 2009

"Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk," Guardian/UK, Oct. 4, 2009

"Beekeepers Tell Pesticide Firm to Buzz Off," Herald/Scotland, Oct. 4, 2009

"UN Warns of 70 Percent Desertification by 2025," Agence France Presse, Oct. 4, 2009

"Greenhouse emissions from oil sands underestimated: Report," Toronto Star/Canada, Oct. 2, 2009

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Media Issues

"Demonstrations at CEO Mansions? Ho Hum: Can the media cover a movement that plays nice?" by Peter Dreier and Todd Gitlin, Oct. 6, 2009

"The Washington Post Needs to Come Clean on Net Neutrality," by Timothy Karr, Save the Internet, Oct. 5, 2009

"The sources used by The Liberal Media," by Glenn, Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 4, 2009

"Iran, Israel, and the Muzzled US Press," by Faramarz Farbod, Common Dreams, Oct. 3, 2009

"Media Push False Equivalency Between Left and Right Rage," by Leslie Savan, The Nation, Oct. 2, 2009

"The Student Sex Column Movement," by Alex DiBranco, The Nation, Sept. 28, 2009

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Activism

"Protesters Try to Influence Afghanistan Policy," WJLA News/ABC News, Oct. 5, 2009

"Unions in a Rut," by Gary Engler, Counterpunch, Oct. 2-4, 2009

"Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past," by Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect, Oct. 2, 2009

"ACORN Is the New Dirty Word," by Rinku Sen, New American Media, Oct. 1, 2009

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