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Project Censored's Mickey Huff Finds the News That Didn't Make the News
Mickey Z., Truthout: "For the uninitiated, here's how Mickey Huff describes Project Censored: 'Project Censored's principal objective is training students in media literacy and First Amendment issues for the future advocacy and protection of free press rights in the United States. Project Censored has trained some 2,000 students in investigative research in the past three decades. Through a partnership of faculty, students, and the community, Project Censored conducts research on important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or otherwise censored by the US corporate media.'"
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Bushwacking Obama: Conservatives Seek to Trap President on Social Security
Robert Borosage, The Campaign for America's Future: "Beware of conservatives bearing gifts. Today in the Washington Post, former Bush policy advisor, Michael Gerson echoes a growing chorus of conservative pundits offering up "Social Security reform" as 'the answer to Obama's problems.' The advice is illogical on its face, pernicious in its consequence, and poisoned from its source. Gerson argues that Obama faces a major strategic decision in his coming State of the Union address, which must take the 'first cut at the reelection message he carries to reelection or defeat.'"
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Robert Reich | New Year's Prediction II
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "What will happen to the US economy in 2011? If you're referring to profits of big corporations and Wall Street, next year is likely to be a good one. But if you're referring to average American workers, far from good. The two American economies - the Big Money economy and the Average Working Family economy - will continue to diverge. Corporate profits will continue to rise, as will the stock market. But typical wages will go nowhere, joblessness will remain high, the ranks of the long-term unemployed will continue to rise, the housing recovery will remain stalled, and consumer confidence will sag."
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Mickey Z., Truthout: "For the uninitiated, here's how Mickey Huff describes Project Censored: 'Project Censored's principal objective is training students in media literacy and First Amendment issues for the future advocacy and protection of free press rights in the United States. Project Censored has trained some 2,000 students in investigative research in the past three decades. Through a partnership of faculty, students, and the community, Project Censored conducts research on important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or otherwise censored by the US corporate media.'"
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Bushwacking Obama: Conservatives Seek to Trap President on Social Security
Robert Borosage, The Campaign for America's Future: "Beware of conservatives bearing gifts. Today in the Washington Post, former Bush policy advisor, Michael Gerson echoes a growing chorus of conservative pundits offering up "Social Security reform" as 'the answer to Obama's problems.' The advice is illogical on its face, pernicious in its consequence, and poisoned from its source. Gerson argues that Obama faces a major strategic decision in his coming State of the Union address, which must take the 'first cut at the reelection message he carries to reelection or defeat.'"
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Robert Reich | New Year's Prediction II
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "What will happen to the US economy in 2011? If you're referring to profits of big corporations and Wall Street, next year is likely to be a good one. But if you're referring to average American workers, far from good. The two American economies - the Big Money economy and the Average Working Family economy - will continue to diverge. Corporate profits will continue to rise, as will the stock market. But typical wages will go nowhere, joblessness will remain high, the ranks of the long-term unemployed will continue to rise, the housing recovery will remain stalled, and consumer confidence will sag."
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