Current Events

The Current Events section will feature mostly news stories relating to the Media.

There will be items about the various cable news channels, the network news, radio and newspapers.

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Current Events Articles

President Obama’s Weekly Radio Address 2-21-09

Tag:Barack Obama, Obama Administration, politics, President Obama

Rachel Maddow Interviews Senator Leahy

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Tag:Rachel Maddow, […]

Truth Commission?

Keth Olbermann talks to Jonathan Turley about Senator Leahy’s idea of a “Truth Commission” to investigate Bush Administration crimes.

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Keith Olbermann Special Comment On Dick Cheney

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Tag:Countdown, Dick […]

Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists

David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday January 21, 2009
Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than […]

Amnesty International Commends President Obama’s Executive Orders to Close Guantanamo and End Torture

Human Rights Organization and its Activists Claim Major Victory After Campaigning Seven Years for the Detention Facility’s Closure
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement related to the signing of an executive order by President Barack Obama that will shut down the U.S. detention facility […]

The Pap Attack: Modern Day Robber Barons

Tag:Air America, corporate greed, Mike Papantonio

The Pap Attack: The New US Imperialism

Tag:Dick Cheney, imperialism, Iraq, Mike Papantonio, PNAC

Al Qaeda No. 2: Attacks on Western nations in works

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Al Qaeda still has plans to target Western countries involved in the Iraq war, Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy warns in an audiotape released Tuesday to answer questions posed by followers.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen in 2006, said in a recent tape that Iran and Hezbollah sought to discredit al Qaeda.
The […]

John Edwards Withdraws From The Race

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a
transcript of a speech by John Edwards:
Thank you all very much. We’re very proud to be back here.
During the spring of 2006, I had the extraordinary experience of bringing 700 college kids here to New Orleans to work. These are kids who gave up […]