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Where is Free Speech Radio News on Ralph Nader/Gonzalez presidential campaign?

by Maureen Primerano

by Michael Barker

Global Research, June 3, 2008
Global Media

By Scott Loughrey

[Editor's Note: This essay is excerpted from Chapter 5 of Barrie Zwicker's book, Towers of Deception. Barrie squarely addresses the issue of Left Gatekeepers, those wonderful and sensitive souls of the Left who bring us the 'real story' on alternative radio. These include most of the regulars I hear over the only alternative FM radio station available here in southern California, Pacifica's Radio KPFK out of Los Angeles. Amy Goodman, Lila Garrett, Sonali Kolhatkar, David Basarmian, Howard Zinn, and Noam Chomsky are but a handful of the more prominent names. What we hear from Chomsky, Zinn, and even Bill Moyers, are sublime and poignant commentary on the barbarities of our day- from the heartless profiteering by corporate fat cats to the incalculable misery imposed on the people of Afghanistan and Iraq by right wing 'neo cons' bent on ever- greater profits from oil, but we don't hear ONE word about 911 being an Inside Job. We don't hear one word about Chemtrails. We hear nothing of Rex 84, FEMA concentration camps, or any discussion of the more than 133 two-mile deep underground city/bases located all over America which every state governor and every member of congress has a ticket to enter. We hear zero criticism of the majority in congress who have voted for legislation or who sponsored bills which encouraged the hordes of illegal aliens to pour into this country from our southern border and deprive Americans of fair wage jobs, while saddling American taxpayers with the cost of incarceration, medical care, and schooling for roughly 32 million illegals. What we hear from Left Gatekeepers is what the Illuminati WANTS us to hear from a thoroughly controlled "alternative" news source ...Ken Adachi]

Posting to Headlines Wire of Scoop
Opinion: www.UnansweredQuestions.org
Date: Wednesday, 4 May 2005

Regulated Resistance: Pt. 2 -
The Gatekeepers of the So-Called Left
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
By Charles Shaw

Comment by Shiu Hung:

While this article was written by Mr. Shaw back in 05, the issue at hand is crucial to this day, to broaden the understanding of how the left media is being used to further neo-liberal/conservative's agenda in the US, via influence through corporate foundation fundings of the left media. Of course, the left media gatekeepers will continue to deny that the corporate blood money has no influence over their journalism work.

Amy Goodman recently interviewed third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader on her national syndicated show DN, Inc., after months of silence on Mr. Nader's campaign. Some Amy Goodman worshippers raved about this interview afterwards. But upon careful review of this interview, one can see that she had no intention of giving Mr. Nader a fair amount of time to expand on his platform. The mainstream media have mostly ignored him since he entered the race. When they do cover his campaign, the time spent with him is minimal, and usually full of sound bites and hyperbole attacks (spoiler). Considering that Amy Goodman's mantra is "go where the silence is", she would have no problem giving Mr. Nader all the time he needs to promote his alternative views on her DN since the mainstream media is doing the dirty work for wall street. But so far, he's been on her program only once since he entered the presidential race. It appears that Ms. Goodman is also ignoring Mr. Nader. Could it be that she doesn't want to offend her 'cash cow' wall street foundations?

Since 9/11/01, it has been documented that she had received a program grant from the Ford Foundation to investigate the issue. Thus far, she has remained steadfast in repeating Bush's lie about the 19 hijackers. There's evidence to refute the 19 hijackers propaganda, but she remains committed to perpetuate Bush's lies. How could that be from someone who continues to claim her program is cutting edge, and that she 'goes where the silence is' in her investigative journalism work? It's all about empire building for DN, Inc., isn't it? Perhaps between now and November, she may jump on board the Democratic Party "ABM" gravy train (Anybody but McCain) the Democratic Leadership Council/Democratic National Committee would have us blindly accept. Considering the little time and effort she has put into the recent Nader interview, she has already accepted the Democrat's ABM treaty?

by Stephen Lendman

Global Research, June 4, 2008

"He's really a . . . the Wall Street Journal's editorial page wouldn't describe him as such . . . but he's really a corporate Democrat. His record in the Senate is not one of challenging corporate power."

So says Ralph Nader when I ask him about Barack Obama.

by Larry Chin

Global Research, March 31, 2008
Online Journal

by Michael Backman

Global Research, March 23, 2008
www.theage.com - 2007-05-23

Global Research Editor's note

This incisive article by Michael Backman outlines the relationship of the Dalai Lama and his organization to US intelligence.

The Dalai Lama has been on the CIA payroll since the late 1950s. He is an instrument of US intelligence.

An understanding of this longstanding relationship to the CIA is essential, particuarly in the light of recent events. In all likelihood US intelligence was behind the protest movement, organized to occur a few months prior to the Beijing Olympic games.

by Dr. Michael Parenti

Global Research, November 18, 2007
Michael Parenti Politcal Archive - 2007-01-02

by Michael Barker


Global Research, August 13, 2007

Great Lakes Danger Zone: Here’s the report that top officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thought was too hot for the public to handle—and the story behind it.

By Sheila Kaplan

by Ralph Schoenman

Global Research, January 29, 2008

PART 3
TAKEN FROM CHAPTER FIVE OF BARRIE ZWICKER'S 'TOWERS OF DECEPTION'

PART 2
TAKEN FROM CHAPTER FIVE OF BARRIE ZWICKER'S 'TOWERS OF DECEPTION'

PART 1
(TAKEN FROM CHAPTER FIVE OF BARRIE ZWICKER'S 'TOWERS OF DECEPTION')

Schumann Center for Media & Democracy: Funds Alternative Media, Invests in Halliburton

By Bob Feldman

RNs Call on Legislature to Reject Insurance-Based Reform - Nurses Urge Democrats to Stand Up to Insurers

Healthcare Costs Could Hit $12,320—or 25% of Income—on Premiums and Deductible Before Insurers Pay for Any Care
Total Out-of-Pocket Costs Could Exceed 36% of Household Income

California Nurses Association
Press Release
March 15, 2007

Legislative Committee Clears Two Differing Approaches To Health Care Reform
By DIANE LEVICK
Hartford Courant Staff Writer
March 14 2007

Mandating private health insurance is misguided
Taxpayer-financed health coverage is a better approach.
By the Register Editorial Board
The Des Moines Register
March 5, 2007

Let’s Make History
Tim Carpenter
PDA Executive Director

By Harry Kelber
The Labor Educator

February 23, 2007

CONTACT: Sara Rogers 916 445 1353 or Robin Podolsky 310 441 9084

www.sen.ca.gov/kuehl

SENATOR SHEILA KUEHL RE-INTRODUCES HEALTHCARE BILL WITH WIDE LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT

By Phil Mattera
Corporate Research Project
Posted on February 23, 2007, Printed on February 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/48371/

Barack Obama: Hypocrisy on Health Care

Bruce Dixon
www.virtualcitizens.com
2007-01-31

http://www.virtualcitizens.com/articles/Barack_Obama_Hypocrisy_on_Health_Care

Forwarded by Maureen Primerano

HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY,

MEDICARE, AND ENTITLEMENTS!

Dianne Feinstein plans to set up a Commission to Restructure

Social Security, Medicare, and Other Entitlements.

Demonstrate Wed, Feb 14th, 11 AM

Feinstein’s office, 1 Post St, at Market, SF

by David U. Himmelstein, MD & Steffie Woolhandler, MD

Crossroads/Health Care
Sacramento Bee
sacbee.com
January 29, 2007

How would single payer control costs?
From Daniel Weintraub:

A Pamphlet by Mitchel Cohen
Brooklyn Greens / Green Party

By Paul Heise
Lebanon Daily News

By THOMAS J. SHEERAN
Associated Press Writer

by Clinton L. Cox

Global Research, January 25, 2007
blackagendareport.com

Legislators Introduce Key Single-Payer Health Bill
California Nurses Association
National Nurses Organizing Committee
Physicians for a National Health Program

Washington Press Conference Wednesday

By Amy B. Monahan

Jan 22, 2007, 00:35

by Robert Parry

Global Research, January 21, 2007
consortiumnews.com

How insurance companies control our heath care
By Jerry Ortiz y Pino
Alibi
V.15 No.50 | December 14 - 20, 2006

By Deborah Burger, RN
January 10, 2007

Distributed by the California Universal Health Care Organizing Project
For more information, email dbechler@value.net

The best way to analyze the Governor’s plan is to compare it to SB 840.

Forwarded by Maureen Primerano

Comments by Shiu Hung:

When will Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, Inc. start doing her self-proclaimed "exclusive" coverage on the Health Care Crisis issue? The reason she hasn't may be because the future of her empire is beholden to the money interest behind her corporate fundings, which may have direct interlocking workings to the health insurance industriies. Therefore, this website will devote time to this very important issue.

By Sheila James Kuehl
LA Times
January 9, 2007

Forwarded by Maureen Primerano

More insurance is not the answer

By Deborah Burger
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Forwarded by Maureen Primerano

The money is already in the system — let’s just do it!

By ANA MALINOW
Guest Columnist
Houston Chronicle

Forwarded by Maureen Primerano

The NED, NGOs and the Imperial Uses of Philanthropy
Why They Hate Our Kind Hearts, Too

By JOAN ROELOFS

NGOs: The Opium of The Left
by Tariq Ali

Nation Institute Awards for Goodman & Steinem

By Bob Feldman

Into the Ring with Counterpunch on 9/11:
How Alexander Cockburn, Otherwise So Bright,
Blanks Out on 9/11 Evidence

by Michael Keefer

November 17, 2006

Guerrilla News Network's Ford Foundation Connection

by Bob Feldman

November 17, 2006

Sep 25, 2006, 00:59


Comments by Shiu Hung:

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Inc. just don't get it, or is she in denial? Worse, is she working for the US establishment and pretending to be a 'cutting edge' alternative media journalist to mislead the 'left'? For me, she is no longer trustworthy regardless of how many people in the progressive sector say that she is doing a wonderful job on her reporting. Its more like 'the blind leading the blinds.'

During her recent 9/11 5th aniversary interview with the editor of Popular Mechanics and producer of Loose change, she did nothing to convince the enlightened that she has come around concerning the truth of 9/11. Throughout the interview, she did not challenge Popular Mechanics' propaganda, while their analysis has been refuted by the 9/11 truth movement researchers to be disinformation and coverup. Amy Goodman's continuing silence with no attempt to expose the 9/11 official lie is deafening to our psyche. Appearantly, she is still stuck on the 19 hijackers as the prime suspects of the attack, even when evidences have shown that at least 6 of the alleged hijackers are still alive. Furthermore, non of the flight manifest have shown any passengers with Arabic names. Over the last 5 years, while Amy Goodman have reported about 9/11, she always referred to the official narrative as her main source, she never question the fact that Bush was able to named all the names of the hijackers not more than 2 hours after the attack while claiming our government had no idea that the alleged terrorists would use airliners as missles, boggles the mind. Considering that Bush's pretext on the 'war on terror' is all based on a lie, she has not done anything to deconstruct the false pretext. With thousands of innocent people dying, and almost 3,000 dead US soldiers resulting from US military incalcitrance in Afghanistan and Iraq; and our civil liberties are almost non-existence; and most of our prescious tax dollars are paying for the Neo-con's illegal wars while our own infracture is failing, she is still behaving no different than FOX or CNN in her reporting. Yet, her 'haven't a clue' followers still consider her a 'crown jewel' in the alternative media milieu. They are still claiming she is doing an excellent job in her reporting. What's with these people, don't they know they are being led down the path of annilation?

To Amy Goodman, you may fool some people once, but you can't continue to fool us with your 'I go where the silence is in my reporting' lie. It's too obvious at this point that you are intentionally misleading your supporters.

Following are the biographies of the Working Assets Inc.-linked Salesforce.com/Salesforce Foundation board, which also seems to indicate some sort of link to the Israeli Establishment to its board.

by Bob Feldman

5.31.06

9/11: The Myth and the Reality

DAVID RAY GRIFFIN (Authorized Version) 30mar2006

Notes: This lecture was delivered March 30, 2006, to a sell-out crowd of over 800 people at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California for Progressive Democrats of the East Bay. Over 100 people were unable to enter because the seating capacity had been reached. Abbreviated versions of it were given in San Francisco for the Democratic World Federalists on April 2 and the Commonwealth Club on April 3.


Comments by Shiu Hung:

Take heed, Amy Goodman, do humanity a favor for a change, and invite David Ray Griffin on your Democraccy Now. If you do decide to interview him, please don't 'sandbag' him by having Norman Soloman or David Corn on at the same time, and if you must, please play fair and allow Griffin a chance to flesh out his thesis. It's time to redeem yourself and your fellow gatekeepers. What Griffin and others has to offer is THE 'cutting edge', and if you are the 'cutting edge' of investigative journalism -- as you often claim -- and your mantra 'I go where there's silence', well, go there, will you, instead of conducting yourself the 'mighty wurlitzer' for the criminal elements at our nation's capital.

Springtime in the Republic of Larry

By Joe Bageant
Online Journal Contributing Writer

The Times April 11, 2006

Comments by Maureen Primerano and Shiu Hung:

While Mr. Abrahamson's critique of the leftgatekeeping issue is on target. The piece is too general and lengthy; using 'broad brush' strokes in which he makes sweeping generalizations on a number of issues throughout the piece. He tries to cover too many issues in one piece without substantiive references and factual clarification. For example, his position on Peak Oil is debatable. It would be useful to elaborate more on Amy Goodman in exposing her role in the left media gatekeeping phenomena.

Congratulation! To Dennis Bernstein
and KPFA's Flashpoint

by Jeff Strauhl

By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net

The Accepted System of Dissent
War Veteran Speaks Out

News Media
What's wrong with Amy Goodman?

By Reza Fiyouzat
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Alternative Media Funder Bill Moyers' Sixties Vietnam War Role

Perhaps it's finally time for antiwar U.S. alternative media groups to set up some kind of "Sixties Vietnam War Era Media Truth Commission" event--instead of yet another annual "Media Reform" conference which again features alternative media group funder and Schumann Foundation President Bill Moyers as one of the keynote speakers?

--bob f.

UPDATE: 9/11 Disinformation agent Rohen Gunaratna make his round on CNN

by Jeff Strauhl

7.25.05

Lewis Lapham Phones It In
Figuring out what's wrong with Harper's magazine

By Jack Shafer
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004, at 4:06 PM PT

http://slate.msn.com/id/2106548/


The following excerpt is from the above article:

Poor, Poor, Pitiful Liberals

War by Other Means

by Stephen Gowans
http://gowans.blogspot.com/ 10 May 2005
www.globalresearch.ca 13 May 2005
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GOW505A.html

Excerpt from article:

.........The successor government, comprising principal members of the opposition, usually selected by Western governments or their agents, is invariably pro-Western and pro-investment, and, having climbed to power on a ladder bought and paid for by Western imperialism, sets about discharging its obligations to its benefactors by overhauling the economy to mortgage it to Western banks and corporations. The parliamentary opposition, activist youth groups and pro-opposition media, angelized as "democratic" and "independent" in the Manichean manner of these operations, operates on lavish budgets furnished by such pro-imperialist organizations as the Soros, Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations and imperialist governments and their agencies, including the US National Endowment for Democracy and USAID. These foundations and agencies claim to be in the business of promoting democracy and civil society abroad, but exist to promote parties and movements sympathetic to advancing the financial and economic interests of Western capital. It's no surprise that one of the first orders of business of the newly installed Democratic Opposition of Serbia, swept to power by US-backed youth activists who challenged the first round of the post-terror bombing elections in Yugoslavia, in which the Socialist candidate Slobodan Milosevic came second, and was due to advance to a run-off, was to begin the process of dismantling Serbia's socially-owned economy and putting it up for sale.
Together, this apparatus of youth groups, "independent" media and the pro-privatization, parliamentary opposition is christened pro-democracy, in contradistinction to the government, which is denounced as anti-democratic, authoritarian and repressive. This provides the justification for massively interfering in the electoral affairs of the target country, not as an exercise in tilting elections in favor of Western economic and financial interests, which it truly is, but as selflessly performing good deeds abroad in promoting the spread of democracy, which it assuredly is not.

Comments by Shiu Hung:

It is evident that Soros and his gang of corporate funders are doing exactly the same thing here inside the US as part of their ongoing process of dismantling resistance from the so-called left. "Alternative media" institutions such as Democracy Now, Inc. and Institute for Public Accuracy -- two out of many -- are actively funded by these same foundationss which funds the so-called 'democracy movement' throughout the world as described by Stephen Gowans and William Blum. Analysis such as theirs will never get exposures on DN, Inc. Amy Goodman of DN, Inc. and Medea "Media" Benjamin may pontificate about 'media' reform but their effort is nothing more than smoke screen and deception.

911: Griffin Reconsidered

Author: George Trinkaus
e-mail: tesla@teslapress.com