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Tony Stanton, MD is a child and adult psychiatrist who has been in the field almost as long as I have, and like me from the beginning knew that drugs were not the answer. For more than two decades, Tony ran a program in California that took the last resort children of the state, those who had “failed” everywhere else, often …
This week, we present a speech delivered in April by the Project Censored Show’s co-host Mickey Huff. His topic was “Critical Media Literacy: the Antidote to Fake News.” He spoke at Sonoma State University, as one of the campus’s Social Justice Week events. Mickey Huff is director of Project Censored, co-host of the Project Censored radio program, and co-chair of the …
For the first segment of the show, Mickey and Michael speak with independent journalist Dave Lindorff. In a recent Salon.com article, Lindorff contends that corporate-media denunciations of “fake news” are also intended to undermine the credibility of non-corporate alternative media. Then Nolan Higdon joins the show as a guest, for a discussion of how to teach media literacy, despite neoliberal …
Today is August 28th and like always The Gary Null Show is here to inform you on the best news in health, healing, the environment and all things political around the world. In this episode Gary gives his thoughts on the tragic events in Houston and what we have to do moving forward. Download this episode (right click and save)
The program opens with an update on the general strike of February 17, with organizer Michelle Rodino-Colocino (the program was recorded that day). A summary of recent underreported stories follows, then Caitlin Remmel speaks about Brand New Congress, a campaign intended to field citizen-responsive candidates in every House district in 2018. Next, the legendary organizer Charlotte Hill O’Neill (“Mama C”) …
The program opens with an update on the general strike of February 17, with organizer Michelle Rodino-Colocino
Universal basic income is emerging as a realistic policy position across Europe. As we reported in late 2015, local authorities across the Netherlands are currently running trials to award every citizen unconditional money from the state. And this year, Finland started an experiment of 2,000 randomly selected people, all of whom currently receive out of work benefits. The first monthly payments of …
Once upon a time, I was a journalist, covering war in Indochina, Central America, and the Middle East. I made it my job to write about the victims of war, the “civilian casualties.” To me, they were hardly “collateral damage,” that bloodless term the military persuaded journalists to adopt. To me, they were the center of war. Now, I work at home …
1) CA Overturn Citizens United Act and Let The People Vote Act
Michele Sutter, MOVI (Money Out Voters In) co-founder, is a writer, teacher, producer, and activist. She is a former Story Editor at HBO and a former co-chair of The 29th StreetProject, a New York City based theater artists’ cooperative. She also produced the 2009 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winning musical adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Wasps.
2) “Hillary Clinton Killed Berta!
Silvio Carrillo is an Oakland, California-based freelance journalist and nephew of Berta Caceres. You can follow the latest updates on her case at BertaCaceres.org or Facebook and Twitter: @JusticeforBerta.
In a recent talk Dr. Andrew Wakefield went after the media for their complete failure to honestly and thoroughly cover the issue of vaccine safety. He was speaking to a small group of reporters, but his message is meant for all members of the media. Whistleblowing In The Public Interest by Dr. Andrew Wakefield- January 30, 2016 on Vimeo (video). …
