The national security state asks the citizens to trust it when it declares a
terror alert: is this to divert our attention from the real threat to freedom
posed by the state itself? J. P. Sottile suggest that it is in this article
from Counterpunch, read for us here by ...
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Establishment liberals have been mostly silent as President Obama has
expanded the national security state for which liberals castigated his
predecessor George W. Bush. In this article, published on Al Jazeera and
read here by Joe Clement, Deepa Kumar demonstrates the c...
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Bobby Caina Calvan describes how multiple news outlets were taken in by a
racist hoax following the crash of Asiana flight 214, and how similar
mistakes could be avoided in the future. Read the article "Having more
diverse newsrooms won’t always prevent errors like KTVU...
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Asawin Suebsaeng reports on how both new and traditional media misidentified
a missing Brown University student, Sunil Tripathi, as the Boston marathon
bombing suspect. Read the Mother Jones article.Interviewed and produced by
Andrew Yeh.
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Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and hear:Bill Resnick talks with Peter
Bratsis about human nature caught between self-interest and democracyIven
Hale reflects on the origins and legacy of political slogan "the personal is
political."Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Espec...
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We feature a tribute to our dear friend and colleague, Afifa Ahmed Shafi, a
founding member of our collective, who passed away July 29, 2013. Produced
by Liz Rogers, and content from Afifa Ahmed Shafi and Sarika Mehta.
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Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour features
Bill Resnick interviewing Chris Toensing about the ouster of the Morsi
government in Egypt; Joe Clement talking with Adam and Daisy about starting a
workers' cooperative pub in Portland; Larry Bo...
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Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act and its limits. They discuss changes in the current version of the law
and its assumptions about the innate nature of sexual identity and the kinds
of trans* presentation it would protect. N...
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Tom Becker reads Dave Lindorf's His 'Crime' is Patriotism, not Betrayal:
Like Hale's Philip Nolan, Snowden has Become a 'Man Without a Country'. It
describes how Edward Snowden was drawn in by War on Terror propaganda, how he
awakened to the propaganda and hacked into NS...
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The Portland Campaign to End the New Jim Crow called for a RALLY, SPEAKOUT &
MARCH on Sunday, July 14, 4pm at Peninsula Park (N. Ainsworth & Albina).
Justice for Trayvon! End Racist Killings! No Justice, No Peace! End the New
Jim Crow!Delphine Criscenzo was on location....
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