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Top Ten Koch Facts

Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: David Koch, Cato Institute, Joseph Stalin, New Yorker, Koch Brothers, Keystone XL Pipeline, Charles Koch, Koch Industries, Native Americans, Climate Change, Cancer, Koch Brothers Exposed, Robert Greenwald, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Brave New Foundation, Alternet, Think Progress, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava

Everyone seems to be investigating Charles and David Koch lately, with exposés of their corrupt political behavior popping up in places like the New ...

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WATCH: Protestors Tell Issa To 'Stop Fighting For Wall Street'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Think Progress, Darrell Issa, Wells Fargo, Occupy Wall Street, Bank of America, Protestors, Alternet, Foreclosure Abuse, Robo-Singing, Foreclosure Settlement, Ally Financia, Citigroup, Business News

California Republican Darrell Issa may think twice before coming to Brooklyn again. The Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Comm...

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Lockheed Martin's CEO Wants Your Social Security Check

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Boeing, Social Security, Committee, Lockheed Martin, Project on Government Oversight, Murray, Clyburn, Jobs, Pogo, Hensarling, Salon, Brave New Foundation, Danielle Brian, Deficit, Northrop Grumman, War Costs, Kyl, Medicare, Alternet, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Nick Turse, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

Military contractors are crying crocodile tears right now about the "fragility" of their industry. But in fact that industry is flush with cash, and will do or say anything to protect the one thing they care about above all else: profit.

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The Wavelength: Court to FCC do your freakin job! Plus: how the NewsCorps scandal impacts u.s. media

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Media Consolidation, Fcc, Truthout, Rupert Murdoch, New America Media, AT&T, T-Mobile, Merger, Public News Service, The Nation, Net Neutrality, Alternet, Milly Dowler, Media News
The Media Consortium

Welcome to the final edition of The Wavelength, a bi-weekly roundup of news and analysis focused on media policy. Stay tuned for more reporting on the...

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Want to Save the Economy? Change What You Eat

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, China Study, Vegan, Meat, Dairy, Mark Bittman, Nutrition, Alternet, Food News
Kerry Trueman

Forks Over Knives successfully highlights the addled agricultural policies and industry meddling that keep our government agencies more focused on protecting corporate profits than promoting good health.

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The Wavelength: Attack of the Media Mega-Mergers! Skyprosoft, AT&T-Mobile and more

The Media Consortium | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Media Consolidation, Lady GaGa, Fcc, Truthout, Technology, Free Press, Microsoft, Antitrust, Public News Service, Skype, Censorship, IPS NEWS AGENCY, Broadband, New America Media, Comcast, Digital Divide, Google, Apple, Telemundo, Merger, The Nation, MEDIA ACCESS PROJECT, Mother Jones, Mobile Security, Sen. Al Franken, Alternet, Nycma, Media News
The Media Consortium

Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion.

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Weekly Pulse: DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Funny, Elderly, Abortion, Family Planning, RH Reality Check, Jane Roberts, Stripping, Budget, Poll, Medicaid, Ad, Choice, Katha Pollitt, Alternet, Dccc, Video, Unfpa, Insurance, Mother Jones, Suzi Khimm, Health Insurance, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Grandpa, Cbpp, Josh Holland, Usaid, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7FiBsR8OQ[/youtube] How will the next generation of seniors ...

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Weekly Mulch: Cost-Cutting at the Environment's Peril

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: The American Prospect, Public News Service, New York, Robert Howarth, Clean Air, Methane, Epa, Deal, Natural Gas, Economy, House, Noaa, Clean Water, Mother Jones, Budget, Alternet, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger In Washington, the environment is under attack. The cost-cutting deal that the House passed yesterday strip...

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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: GOP Would Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Suzy Khimm, Lgbt, New York, Jamelle Bouie, Community Health Center, Hog, Medicaid, change.org, Gay, Barie Shortell, Pig, Alternet, Tapped, Antibiotic Resistance, Williamsburg, Insurance, Primary Care, Mother Jones, LGBT Youth, Bias, Dan Peterson, Health, Ralph Loglisci, Medicare, Joseph Huff-Hannon, Antibiotic, Denmark, Grist, Hate Crime, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a draft budget resolution for 2012. Ryan's program would pr...

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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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Weekly Audit: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing--The Myth of Fiscal Conservatism

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Obama, Gop, College, Pension, Tim Murphy, Tax, Tara Lohan, Steve Benen, Deficit, Union, Cuts, General Electric, Campus Progress, Debt, Washington Monthly, Congress, Fiscal Conservatism, ALIYA KARIM, Tapped, DEFINED CONTRIBUTION, Tax Cut, Higher Education, University, Unemployment, Iowa, Transparency, SARAH BABBAGE, Rich, Mother Jones, Defined Benefit, Alternet, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Fashionable pundits like to say that the Republican Party has shifted its focus from "social conservat...

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Weekly Pulse: Vermont Poised to Pass Single-Payer

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Planning, RH Reality Check, Model, Vermont, Kermit, Sarah Seltzer, South Dakota, Governor, Alternet, Anorexia, Body Image, Single Payer, Contraception, Fashion, Saul Elbein, In These Times, Waiting Period, Lon Newman, Lauren Else, Abortion, 72 Hours, Family Planning Health Services, Reality Stamp, Shumlin, Texas, Quack, Tapped, Photoshop, Birth Control, Wisconsin, Health, Health Insurance, Alternative Medicine, Rolondo Arafiles, Anti-Choice, Cam, Scott Lemieux, Politics News
The Media Consortium

Weekly Pulse: Vermont Poised to Pass Single-PayerBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Vermont is poised to abolish most forms of private he...

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Weekly Audit: Massive Protest In Wisconsin Shows Walker's Overreach

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Rights, Collective Bargaining, Tractorcade, Poll, The Nation, Firefighter, Republican, Alternet, Steve Benen, Senator, Broke, Scott Walker, Protest, E.J. Dionne, Bank, M&I, Union, Jamelle Bouie, Budget, Washington Monthly, Wisconsin Democratic Party, Election, Enthusiasm Gap, Tapped, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Koch, JoAnne Kloppenburg, SIMEON TALLEY, Madison, Roger Bybee, Farmer, Working in These Times, Recall, John Nichols, Inequality, Senate, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective...

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Weekly Mulch: Activist Tim DeChristopher Convicted of Two Felonies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The American Prospect, Compost, Dep, Keystone XL, YES! Magazine, Care2, Alternet, Tar Sands, Wild Lands, Pennsylvania, Mother Jones, Climate Change, Salazar, Earth Island Journal, Hydrofracking, Tim Dechristopher, Doi, Grist, Blm, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two felony counts. DeChristopher was o...

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Weekly Diaspora: The 2012 Budget and Our Unsecured Border

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, American Independent, Immigration Impact, Campus Progress, 2012 Budget, House, Dhs, Border, Obama, Immigration, Border Security, Care2, Alternet, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger President Obama is taking heat from all sides this week for his 2012 budget proposal, which propose...

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Weekly Mulch: Why Natural Gas Companies Fear Josh Fox, Gasland, and the Oscars

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twix, Plains Exploration and Production Company, Gasland, Epa, change.org, Orion, Greenpeace, Alternet, Recycling, Red List, Costco, Mother Jones, Josh Fox, Earth Island Journal, Hydrofracking, Oscars, Girl Scout Cookies, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grist, Natural Gas, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The natural gas industry is afraid that Josh Fox, director of the muckraking film Gasland, might win an Os...

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Weekly Mulch: Chevron Must Pay; GOP Tries to Gut the EPA

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The ENERGY FOUNDATION, Republicans, Inter Press Service, Grist, Gop, Bp, AMERICAN WIND ASSOCIATION, Sierra Club, Chevron, Europe, Epa, Wind Power, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Deepwater Horizon, NATIONAL COAL CAMPAIGN, Carbon Emissions, Mother Jones, Care2, Amazon, ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND, Coal, Budget, Bill Mckibben, Alternet, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger A Bolivian judge ordered Chevron this week to pay $8.6 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon rainfor...

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Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The American Prospect, Robert Krentz, Minutemen, Tom Horne, Feet in Two Worlds, Roger Barnett, Immigration, Arizona, Fair, Alternet, Tapped, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Anti-Latino Hate Crime, Jan Brewer, Shawna Forde, Nativist, New America Media, Raul Flores, Brisenia Flores, Hate Crime, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed suit against the federa...

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Weekly Diaspora: Why Sexual Violence Against Latina Farmworkers is a Hate Crime

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shenandoah, Immigration Reform, Luis, Colorlines, Minutemen, Shawna Forde, New America Media, change.org, Southern Poverty Law Center, Merced Farm Labor, Brisenia Flores, Fair, Hate Crimes, Maria Jimenez, Alternet, Farm Workers, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger This week, two high-profile trials involving the racially motivated murders of Latinos in Pennsylva...

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Weekly Pulse: #DearJohn, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Delivery, RH Reality Check, Reform, Alternet, Insurance, Affordable Care Act, Cancer, In These Times, Roger Vinson, Medicine, Health Care, Abortion, Human Rights, Women, Florida, Twitter, Rape, Interstate Commerce, #DearJohn, Medicaid, Maternal Health, Terry J. Allen, Amanda Marcotte, Mandate, Tapped, Labor, Profit, Prostate, Health, Urology, Medicare, Sudan, Obstetric Fistula, Scott Lemieux, Kenya, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimat...

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Weekly Audit: Crashing the Koch's Billionaire Caucus

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, David Koch, Nancy Goldstein, Van Jones, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Jobs, David Dayen, Monica Potts, George Warner, The Nation, Enviornment, Rancho Las Palmas, Iowa Independent, Alternet, Tapped, Recycling, Steve Benen, Palm Spring, Minimum Wage, Campus Progress, Unemployment, Koch, Charles Koch, Jim Hightower, Tyler Kingkade, Common Cause, Plastic, Poor, Billionaire, Bruce Hunter, Economy, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Oil barons Charles and David Koch held their annual billionaires' summit in Palm Springs on Sunday, Na...

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Weekly Audit: Wall Street Destroyed $8 for Every $1 Earned

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Income, Welfare, States, Wages, Social Security, Jobs, Obesity, Frances Fox Piven, Republican, James Ridgeway, Alternet, Robert Taft, State of the Union, Wal-Mart, Senator, Bonus, Cloward Piven, Mother Jones, Sotu, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Banker, Obama. Michele Obama, Economy, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Tonight, President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address. A major theme of the spee...

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Weekly Mulch: Why is the U.S. Losing the Clean Energy Race to China? Blame the Climate Cranks

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Tradition Institute, Clean Edge, Cancun, Sputnik Moment, Michale Mann, Ruggedizing, Obama, New Energy Economy, change.org, The Nation, Care2, Susana Martinez, Alternet, Hu Jintao, Bilateral Summit, Climate Gate, New Mexico, Climatologists, Truthout, Mother Jones, Clean Tech, Brisbane, Clean Energy Subsidies, Climate Change, Climate Cranks, Climate Deniers, Clean Technology Race, Wto, Grist, Copenhagen, China, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao touched on energy issues in the bilateral summit between t...

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Weekly Diaspora: Anti-Immigrant Hate Crimes Rise with Hateful Political Speech

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shenandoah, American Independent, Colorlines, Sb 1070, Public News Service, I-Word, change.org, Arizona, Somos Republicans, Hate Crimes, Rhetoric, Alternet, Anti-Immigrant, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The federal trial of three Pennsylvania police officers accused of covering up the murder of an und...

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