All 65 articles by Aaron Sarver
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Kids LOL @ Navy Recruiters
Millennials, explained Arthur Mitchell, director of strategic planning for the Navy's Accelerate Your Life campaign, are "narcissistic praise junkies" and "a somewhat alien life force"
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Creating the 21st Century Library
The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls "a map of my brain"
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A Win for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
In the face of a giant protest, McDonald's caves into farmworkers' demands for a penny per basket raise.
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Cholera and the City
A review of Steven Johnson's new book The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Terrifying Epidemic-and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Witnessing Extraordinary Rendition
Nonprofit organization Witness uses video like the new film Outlawed, to document human rights abuses worldwide.
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Tracking the CIA Torture Flights
In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide.
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Processing Pain at Smithfield Foods
NLRB rules that Smithfield violated the rights of workers trying to organize.
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Irans Powerless President
Kaveh Ehsani speaks about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Louder Than a Bomb: an Interview with Chicago Hip-Hopper Kevin Coval
White and Jewish, Kevin Coval is a hip-hop poet who proves that, in hip-hop, talent is more important...
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Talking Trash
How much needless plastic packaging do you throw away every year? Why is it cheaper to buy a...
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No Discounted Transit for Oil
As part of a broad PR campaign this winter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered discounted home heating...
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Lapham’s Way
On November 14 Lewis Lapham, who has been editor of Harper's since 1983, announced his retirement. Lapham is the originator...
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Freedom Archived
The Freedom Archives are located in San Francisco in a tiny office where more than 8,000 hours of audiotape...
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View From the Ground
Journalist Jamie Kalven characterizes his experience covering Stateway Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development, as "human rights"...
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The Secret History
In the Spring 2004 issue of Dissent, Georgetown historian Michael Kazin savaged Howard Zinn's seminal work, A People's History...
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Howard Zinn Gets to the Source
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States was first published in 1980, and has sold more than...
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New episode of Fire on the Prairie
You can hear the current and past episodes at fireontheprairie.com On this episode: Join Aaron Sarver for...
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Media for the People
The accomplishments of the Urbana/Champaign IndyMedia Center (UC IMC) read like a media activist’s wish list: ...
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How can Kissinger still be alive?
The Chicago Tribune is running a great series on Henry Kissinger this week. Jim Warren's intros to transcripts...
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The Media Movement Matures
In 2003, an unprecedented 750,000 Americans wrote the Federal Communications Commission, urging them not to relax media ownership rules. Since...
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top one lists
Best book I read all year - Cornel West Democracy Matters While the media pundits squabble about why...
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Obama retires
"I figure there's nowhere to go from here but down. So tonight, I'm announcing my retirement from the...
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The Gloves are Off
While the 2004 election was a disaster for most Democrats, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the Progressive Caucus,...
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Cool election maps
Check it out
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The dl on DieBold
This hacker's site shows how vunerable Diebold machines are. It's a really good read.
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Our divided country in map form
Don't believe the hype. Head on over to read great analysis from a red-stater. I know the USA...
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video of voter intimidation in Ohio
Jesse Jackson has the money quote towards the end. video link
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VOTE!
It seems a bit surreal that election day is tomorrow. Bush is going down - Get all the...
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Time for a little funny?
Yeah Bush is really scary, but it is important to laugh at him as well Check out this...
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one fingered victory salute
Bush at his finest. video link
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Tons of Explosives Missing in Iraq
Military families response to reading this story is - A. What the Fuck! B. I support my commander...
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O’Reilly on Daily Show
In light of his recent hummus, I mean falafel incident you can see O'Reilly on the Daily Show...
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Osama Who?
Bush is toast. Nothing like a lie caught on video.
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O’Reilly Hit With Sexual Harassment Suit
The Smoking Gun has the dirt.
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Bush lie #1732564
"As I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center...
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New ad from Iraq Veterans for Truth
Go watch this
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Volunteer with America Coming Together
Live in or near a battleground state? Want to help in Get Out the Vote activities? Want to...
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Tracking the Presidential race
Newsweek has a nice interactive map that breaks the race down state by state. And good news in...
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Fox News Channel admits reporter posted fake story about Kerry
Anyone think this guy should be fired? I can only imagine the uproar if CNN had posted something...
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Obama! Obama! Obama!
Can wait to hear the crowd roar at his victory party. Obama 68 Keyes 17 Ouch! Write up here. Obama's...
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It’s all about the absentee ballots
Team Bush have their game together. What is the Kerry campaign doing? I'm not saying they aren't doing...
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Can you imagine if we knew what reality of being in Iraq?
Some stunning photos of what's going on in Iraq. It takes a minute to load up, but its...
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Can the Democrats take back the house?
I think they have a good chance. I'll leave the tracking of indivdiual house races to others, but...
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It’s the economy stupid!
I hope Clinton managed to tell Kerry this in their much publicized, recent phone conversation. Kerry continues to...
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Does he still get to attend the RNC?
Republican congressman Ed Schrock (R-VA) has resigned his seat after being outed as a homosexual. Ed Schrock has...
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Crazy Like Fox
More from the Shut-Up-A-Thon (posted by Jessica Clark): The protest is bristling with media interviewing media about media....
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RNC Protests, Outside Fox news
Just got back from the shut-upathon outside Fox news headquarters. 500? people and at least as many police and...
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Obama up 41 points on Keyes
Latest Chicago Tribune poll on the Illinois Senate race. Even voters who described themselves as fairly conservative preferred...
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Republican Congressman believes invading Iraq a mistake
Wonder if dissent from Republicans is considered unpatriotic. Republican Rep. Doug Bereuter says he now believes the U...
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National polling numbers don’t mean much
Check out this electoral vote calculator and have some fun with projecting which states Kerry will take from...
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