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China, the Nobel Prize and the Road to Freedom

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charter 77, I.F. Stone, Vaclav Havel, Burma, Nobel Peace Prize, Charter 08, Aung San Suu Kyi, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Poland, Eastern Europe, Chinese Government, Liu Xiaobo, Czechoslovakia, Chinese Censorship, China, Impact News

Americans and the global community must keep its pressure weighing on Chinese officials to free Liu Xiaobo.

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The 50 Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John L. Lewis, Louis Brandeis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, The Nation, W.E.B. Dubois, Frances Perkins, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, 50 Most Influential Progressives, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Norman Thomas, Florence Kelley, Earl Warren, I.F. Stone, Ella Baker, Walter Reuther, Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Harry Hay, Thurgood Marshall, A.J. Musge, Rachel Carson, Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Saul Alinsky, Paul Robeson, Politics News

We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.

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Outsourcing War: I.F. Stone's Son on the Izzy Award to Jeremy Scahill

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ithaca College, Kbr, If Stone, The Andromeda Strain, Blackwater, Ithaca, Brown and Root, Izzy, Kellog Brown and Root, Politics News

America's all-volunteer army has the unfortunate disadvantage of protecting the decision to use military force from the political pressures that would exist were wealthy citizens subject to draft.

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Sowing the Seeds of Jihad

Shan Wells | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Turkey, Flotilla, Gaza, Middle East, I.F. Stone, Palestinian, 9/11, Islamic Extremists, Six-Day War, Jewish, World News, Denver News

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Treat Palestinians Like Jews

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flotilla, Six-Day War, Gaza, I.F. Stone, Middle East, Jewish, Palestinian, World News

It was an act of international terrorism, pure and simple. There can be no valid claims of self-defense on the part of Israeli commandos who attacked a ship of protesters in international waters. Trust me, I don't come to this viewpoint lightly.

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Lying About Nuclear Weapons

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Democratic Party of Japan, I.F. Stone, United Nations, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Israeli Nuclear Weapons, Russian Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Three Non-Nuclear Principles, Liberal Democratic Party, Nuclear-Free World, World News

At the moment, there remain more than 23,000 nuclear weapons, 96 percent of them in the hands of Russia and the United States. But this outrageous record is only part of the story.

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I See Dead People Joe Klein

Sean Carman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exasperated Diatribes, Joe Klein, Short Fiction, I.F. Stone, Glenn Greenwald, The Health Care Debacle, Comedy News, Athenae, Satire, Comedy News

"Aren't you the journalist who tirelessly promoted the Iraq War? And defended the Bush Administration's illegal wiretap and detention programs while admitting you knew nothing about them?"

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Was Izzy an Agent?

D. D. Guttenplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Kgb, Communism, I.F. Stone, Ron Radosh, Spies, National Security Agency, Cold War, Media News

I've always had a soft spot for Ron Radosh. This may seem surprising, particularly since Radosh just penned an attack on me, my I.F. Stone biography, ...

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Dangerous: Michael Jackson and I.F. Stone

D. D. Guttenplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Communism, Jews, Dance, I.F. Stone, Indiana, African Americans, Entertainment News

Because mud sticks, I was going to kick off here by examining the so-called evidence for the charge that I.F. Stone, the legendary radical journalist,...

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Review: Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America and "Three Tales of I.F Stone and the KGB: Kalugin, Venona and the Notebooks"

Myra MacPherson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Max Holland, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, I.F. Stone, Alexander Vasiliev, Spies, Three Tales of if Stone and the KGB, Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, I. F. Stone, World News

Sometimes one cannot glean the truth by a book's title. This is the case with Spies, regarding the thin documentation of journalist I.F. Stone as a stellar spy in the 1930s.

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I.F. Stone's Son on the Izzy Awards, Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Goodman, I.F. Stone, Democracy Now, Izzy Awards, Park Center for Independent Media, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

Jeremy Stone spoke at Tuesday's inaugural ceremony of the Izzy Awards for independent media -- named after legendary journalist I.F. "Izzy" Stone. Here's his short speech.

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What Indy Media Trailblazers Can Teach Us

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Seldes, Margaret Sanger, I.F. Stone, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Susan B. Anthony, Independent Media, Victoria Woodhull, Media News

Will independent media outlets that contributed so mightily to the stunning election result speak truth to power and expose corruption and injustice over the long haul -- no matter who's in charge?

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Former Knight-Ridder Editor Wins First I.F. Stone Medal

Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Knight-Ridder, Mcclatchy, Journalism, Iraq, John Walcott, I.F. Stone, Media, Media News

The Nieman Foundation and its Watchdog Project this year established an I.F. Stone Medal for journalistic independence. I'm delighted to announce th...

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