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April 24th: Remembering the Armenian Dead

Christopher Atamian | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Taxes, Turkey, Ahmet Davotuglu, Turkish, Syrian Desert, Armenian Genocide, Armenian, 1915, Pontic Greek, Young Turks, Armenia, Talaat Pasha, Wealth, Genocide, Assyrian, Concentration Camps, Wealth Taxes, Reconciliation, Ayash, Komitas, Djemal, Pontic, Chankiri, Enver, World News
Christopher Atamian

Turkey can delay, it can hem and haw and try to dissimulate, but the reality is that Armenians -- and their Greek and Assyrian counterparts -- have truth on their side; and as we have seen before in the course of human history, truth has a strange way of winning out, eventually.

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WATCH: Current TV Host Rages Against Bill O'Reilly

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Young Turks, Video, Cenk Uygur Bill O'reilly, Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks, Fox News, Fox News O'reilly Factor, Cenk Uygur Current Tv, Bill O'Reilly the Factor, Fox News Channel, Bill O'Reilly Fox News, Media News

Current TV's Cenk Uygur attacked Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday night for saying that organizations on the far left "try to hurt families." Uygur discuss...

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WATCH: Cenk Uygur's Current TV Show Debuts

Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Young Turks, Video, Cenk Uyguyr, Cenk Uygur Current Tv, Current TV, Cenk Uygur Young Turks, Media News

Cenk Uygur returned to the cable news airwaves on Monday with a simple message: "we are here to punch the establishment in the mouth." That straigh...

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Weekly Audit: Government Shutdown Averted, But At What Cost?

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Government, Federal Budget, Paul Waldman, Barack Obama, Deal, James O'keefe, Amy Goodman, Josh Holland, Shutdown, American Prospect, Planned Parenthood, The Nation, President, Young Turks, Democracy Now!, John Nichols, Nick Baumann, Mother Jones, Cenk Uygur, Alternet, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night,...

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Weekly Pulse: Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State Employees

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Abortion, Welfare, Suzy Khimm, Minnesota Independent, Florida, Andy Birkey, Hiv, Abstinence, Cenk Uygur, Drug Testing, The Progressive, Martha Kempner, LaShieka Purvis Hunter, South Dakota, Planned Parenthood, Alternet, Young Turks, Public Sector Workers, Rick Scott, Colorlines, Labor, Ellen LaConte, Fruit, Mother Jones, Matthew Rothschild, Mike Elk, Working in These Times, Gardening, Aids, Vegetable, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott plans to force public workers and welfare recipients to undergo...

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Final Score: Compassion 1, Bullying 0‏

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young Turks, House of Representatives, Death Threat, Unemployment, Fl-08, Cenk Uygur, Alan Grayson, Republicans, Grayson, Dan Gainor, Politics News
Alan Grayson

For the first time this week, Republicans got that funny feeling that you get when you exercise a muscle that you didn't even know you had. That funny feeling the Republicans experienced was . . . a pang of conscience.

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Ten Things You Can Do to Help Progressive Journalism

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brave New Foundation, The Nation, Daily Show, Firedoglake, Air America, Media Matters, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Ed Schultz, Robert Greenwald, Journalism, Young Turks, Stephanie Miller, Progressive, Laura Flanders, Colbert Report, Brave New Films, Fox News, Zp Heller, Democracy Now, Glenn Beck, Alternet, Media News
ZP Heller

What's wrong with this picture? Air America vanishes into the ether, while Glenn Beck indoctrinates 2.7 million daily viewers with his histrionic brand of right-wing lunacy.

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Web Ad for Bobby Jindal Uses Celebrity Voices (and Mine) Without Permission

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cenk Uygur, Msnbc, Bobby Jindal, America for Change, Washington Post, Alan Colmes, Young Turks, Chris Wallace, David Gregory, Eugene Robinson, 2012 Election, Jay Leno, NBC News, Chris Matthews, Fox News, You Tube, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

How do I know? I'm one of the voices they used, which is quite curious because I am neither a celebrity nor anywhere near a Bobby Jindal fan.

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Sam Stein

Progressive Hosts Vie For MSNBC's 10PM Slot

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With MSNBC announcing that it was looking to fill its 10PM time slot with original broadcasting, two prominent self-avowed liberals are positioning th...

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In Defense of Ben Lyons

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Reviews, Television, Young Turks, Ben Lyons, At the Movies, Entertainment Industry, Movie Reviewers, Ben Mankiewicz, Movies, Entertainment News
Cenk Uygur

The whole entertainment industry is built around sucking up to celebrities. You think Ben Lyons is uniquely responsible for this? Have you watched any entertainment "news" in your life?

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Give Someone a Compliment Today

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Poker, Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, Compliment, Family, Happiness, Joy, Healthy Living News
Cenk Uygur

My close friends have already vomited and will not read my next three columns in protest. But I believe in joy.

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Virginia + Pennsylvania = Good Night Sleep

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young Turks, Virginia, Election 2008, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama, Swing States, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

We might know who our next president is by 8:05 PM EST on Tuesday night. This has been such a long time coming for those of us who have been fighting the Bush administration for all of these years.

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Why We're Carrying the Brave New PAC Ad About McCain's Health

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cenk Uygur

Starting Monday, The Young Turks will be carrying the ad that Brave New PAC and Democracy for America have put together on John McCain's health record...

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Why the Right's Messaging is Working

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaffe, John McCain, Youth, Trust, Money, George Lakoff, This Week, Barack Obama Polls, John Amato, Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Paris Hilton/Britney Spears Attack Ad, Power, Qualities, Control, The Terminator, Young Turks, Crooks and Liars, Old Man Dozing, George Stephanopoulos, Flip-Flop, Child Lights Fire, Oil, Foreign, Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Petraeus, Simplicity, Celebrity, The Political Mind, Mistake, Confidence, Linguist, Values Voters, Think, Repetition, Unconscious, Language, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Why is the young brilliant upstart Obama only ahead by single digits. At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.

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Talk-Radio Host Accuses Colbert Of Stealing His Joke

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cenk Uygur, Young Turks, Stephen Colbert, Colbert Report, Media News

A talk-radio host is claiming Stephen Colbert stole his joke. Cenk Uygur of Air America's morning show "The Young Turks" insisted on his program Wedn...

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