Archive for August, 2008

The Real News Network. The Future Depends On Knowing.

Posted on August 26, 2008. Filed under: Democracy, Global Warming, activism, alternative news, civil liberties, civil rights, documentary, equal rights, free press, free speech, global economy, global grassroots, global issues, global online media, politics, real news, realnews, social justice | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Real News Network is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism.
Our staff, in collaboration with courageous journalists around the globe, will investigate, report and debate stories on the critical issues of our times.
We are member supported and do not accept advertising, government or corporate funding.
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This Brave Nation Video – BraveNation.Com

Posted on August 26, 2008. Filed under: activism, civil liberties, civil rights, economy, environment, feminism, music, nafta, new media, nuclear energy, protest, sierra club, union organizing, video | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Carl Pope and Van Jones (episode 1)
In any other profession, Carl Pope might be considered a “company man.” He has worked loyally and tirelessly in the name of the Sierra Club for thirty years, running the organization – the largest of its kind in the country – since 1992. Van Jones has founded several organizations [...]

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The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

Posted on August 26, 2008. Filed under: book review, hollywood, iron man, iron man movie, militarization of America, military industrial complex, pentagon, propaganda, terrorism, the matrix, war on terror | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A mind-boggling investigation of the all pervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life—a real-world Matrix come alive.

Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex—an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives.
From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon’s little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the [...]

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