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Micah Sifry: WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
March 4, 2011"Wikileaks is a symptom of a much larger change, an age when information can be moved into the public arena by all kinds of people," says Micah Sifry of the Personal Democracy Forum. Bradley Manning, the accused leaker of the "Collateral Murder" video aired on WikiLeaks, faces 22 new charges from the government, including "Aiding the Enemy." But which enemy is he aiding, Micah asks? Is it us?Dave Zirin, Micah Sifry, and the Military Budget
March 3, 2011"It's not about dollars and cents, it's about owners telling players who is boss," says Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation, about the impending NFL lockout. Even Barack Obama has gotten into the act, though, writing off the labor dispute in professional football as "millionaires fighting billionaires" and ignoring the real factors in the fight, from the health risks and short careers the players face to the people who will be out of work if football doesn't go on--while the owners sign a TV contract that pays them even if there is no season.Resistance and Cooperation at the G20 Summit
June 29, 2010Media coverage of this week's G20 summit focused on "violent" protests and police crackdowns, and reporters Brandon Jourdan and Beka Economopoulos certainly found themselves in the middle of the conflict--Jourdan, as well as Jesse Freeston of The Real News network, were attacked outside of the summit.Dean Baker, Walter Mosley, the G20, and Hikers in Iran
June 28, 2010What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates business. It seems that the government know how to do things like keep the unemployment rate down, but the talk at the G20 Summit and the results here at the United States is doing otherwise.Back to Bush? World Media and Obama
December 4, 2009Esther Armah, award-winning international journalist and WBAI host, Michael Bronner, Vanity Fair correspondent, and Jamal Dajani, co-creator and producer of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, join us to fill in the blanks on the coverage and provide some alternative viewpoints.World Media and Obama, Let Fury Have the Hour and American Faust
December 3, 2009The response to Obama's Afghanistan speech on most US news stations was delivered by the same old familiar faces: mostly male, mostly white anchors and serious pundits who had ruled out a long time ago the possibility of alternative solutions. But what did the rest of the world think?
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