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Just a Juggalo: Chatting with Insane Clown Posse, Plus Audio Fidelity's Marshall Blonstein and N.E.D. (No Evidence of Disease)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.27.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Insane Clown Posse, Xzibit, The Eagles, JJ Walker, MC Hammer, Mario McNulty, Lou Adler, Flavor Flav, The Beach Boys, Steve Hoffman, Ten Years After, No Evidence of Disease, Bad Company, John Soper, Rush, William "Rusty" Robinson, Women's Cancer Foundation, Vanilla Ice, Steve Winwood, Chris Brown, Kiss, Iggy Pop, Marshall Blonstein, Shaggy, Busta Rhymes, Kevin Gray, Juggalo Gathering, Wally Heider, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ringo Starr, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Charlie Sheen, N.E.D., Mitch Ryder, Kottonmouth Kings, National Allstar Wrestling, Ode Records, Grace Jones, Cbs, Sade, Island Records, Whitney Houston, The Roches, Carly Simon, Gynecological Cancer Foundation, The Wallfowers, Elton John, Marianne Faithful, DJ Quik, Bob Marley, Simon & Garfunkel, Third World, Carole King, Paul McCartney, George Clinton, Alice Cooper, Audio Fidelity, Ice Cube, Bobby Brown, Rihanna, The Doors, Lenny Kravitz, Women's Health, Horrorcore, DCC COmpact Classics, Bryan Adams, James Taylor, Geart, Cky, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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China Roiled by Washington's October Surprise

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Wal-Mart, National Endowment for Democracy, Cybersecurity, Human Capital, Twitter, Nobel Peace Prize, China, Barack Obama, Currency Manipulation, Freedom, Oprah Winfrey, Jonathan Franzen, Robert Gates, Liu Xiaobo, Ned, Hewlett Packard, Pen, Public Diplomacy, Hp, Kwame Appiah, Michael Moore, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Robert Gates agreed to hold talks with China next year. Cybersecurity, oil politics, and China's expanding role in Latin America will all be on the agenda. And if Liu Xiaobo doesn't have his 'get out of jail' card by then, he might be too.

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Buying Venezuela's Press With U.S. Tax Dollars

Jeremy Bigwood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Pan American Development Foundation, Latin America, Ned, Usaid, State Department, Padf, Ipys, Drl, Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, Espacio Publico, Media News
Jeremy Bigwood

Covert foreign state support for ostensibly independent journalism violates basic principles of the profession's integrity; even if the journalists who benefited from the grants may not have known of the State Department funding.

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Beatles For Sale, John Leckie Interview on The Stone Roses, This Week's New Albums, plus Scott Weiland, Jason Mraz, and Glee

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Robin Trower, Kanye West, Comic-Con, Janis Ian, Lea Michele, Salt-N-Pepa, Kevin McHale, The Posies, Phish, Xtc, Circulatory System, Matthew Morrison, My Morning Jacket, Journey, Burt Bacharach, The Byrds, Bethany Dylan, Rick Danko, Neil Diamond, Spencer Day, The Gears, Sweetwater, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Gary Mounfield, Vivian Girls, John Squire, Mark Sailing, Prefab Sprout, The Police, Sondre Lerche, Public Image Ltd., USA Today, They Might Be Giants, Julian Lennon, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Jenna Ushkowitz, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, The Beatles Rock Band, Diana Agron, Entertainment News, Os Mutantes, Cinema Bizarre, Danko Jones, Andrew Dugan, Chic, Jay-Z, Scott Weiland, N.E.D., Be Bop Deluxe, Jason Mraz, Myspace, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howie Day, Queen, Gaither Vocal Band, A Fine Frenzy, Jayma Mays, John Leckie, Mayer Hawthorne, The Fall, The Beatles, Cory Monteith, Gene Loves Jezebel, Wild Beasts, The Feelies, Yo La Tengo, Jack Bruce, The Cribs, Mia Farrow, Eric Carmen, Simple Minds, Jimmy Clanton, Dalai Lama, Buckcherry, Brooks & Dunn, Robert Fripp, Magazine, Jane Lynch, Amber Riley, The Stone Roses, Chris Colfer, Ian Brown, Stone Temple Pilots, John Mayall, Mike & the Ravens, Jessalyn Gilsig, Rihanna, Alan Wren, Frank Turner, Boys Like Girls, The Verve, True Blood, Thousand Foot Krutch, Itunes, Robyn Hitchcock, Peter White, Geffen, Silvertone, Saosin, Raekwon, Candiria, Cruxshadows, Slipknot, Barlowgirl, Commodores, Erasure, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

With the release of stereo and mono box sets, individual album reissues, and their own edition of Rock Band, The Beatles finally have stepped into the 21st century in a major way.

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Obama Shares Bush's Goals in Foreign Policy

Hossein Derakhshan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Empire, Biden, National Endowment for Democracy, Chomsky, Iran, Obama, Ned, Democracy, Ahmadinejad, Bush, Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Politics News
Hossein Derakhshan

While Obama objects to military intervention, he is, like Bush, a big supporter of the kind of activity that NED is doing -- and interestingly enough, more avidly than Bush.

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Can We Rescue Democracy from the Right?

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Neoconservatives, Ned, Zimbabwe, Democracy, Poland, Robert Mugabe, Politics News
John Feffer

Yes, the U.S. government has given "democracy promotion" a bad name. But progressives should not withhold support from movements in other countries fighting nonviolently against tyranny.

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Attacks on Gene Sharp and Albert Einstein Institution Unwarranted

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Albert Einstein Institution, Human Rights, Venezuela, Burma, Gene Sharp, Ned, Democracy, Democracy Promotion, Non-Violence, Neo-Con Agenda, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

Sharp has inspired generations of progressives around the world. So why are foreign governments claiming that he and his small research institute are key players in a Bush administration plot against them?

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