Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Politics/Law/Government (Archive)

(This topic is concentrated on governmental politics, the legal system, bureaucracatic systems, police enforcement, social justice, identity politics and political activism. Most of the other archives concern politics in some way or the other.)

Ongoing:

16 Beaver Group

AK Press

AlterNet: Democracy

AlterNet: Elections '08

AlterNet: Human Rights

America Abroad Media: Critical International Issues of Our Time

American Civil Liberties Union: Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself

American Conservative

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (Stanford Law School)

American Empire Project

American Enterprise Institute

Amnesty International: Working to Protect Human Rights

Amnesty International USA: Action for Human Rights

Audio Anarchy

BBC World Service Documentaries

Best of the Left

Big Vision: Interviews with Individuals & Organizations Creating Positive Change

Bill Moyers Journal

Black Agenda Report: The Journal of African American Thought and Action

The Bluegrass and Beyond

Book TV on CSPAN: Top Nonfiction Authors

Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities

The Carnival of Feminists

Center for Digital Democracy

Center for International Policy

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Congressional Quarterly Politics

Crimethinc.: Ex-Workers Collective

C-SPAN

The Curvature: A Feminist Perspective on politics and Culture

Cyberpunk Radio: Politics, Indy-Music, Satire and SF

Democracy Now

Democracy Uprising (Mark Engler)

Der Spiegel International (Germany)

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Epoch Times

Ethics Bites (Open University)

European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

Exiled: Banned in Russia

Expose: America's Investigative Reports

Feministe

Firedoglake

Fora TV (The World is Thinking)

Fora TV: Politics

Framing Science (Matthew Nisbet)

Free Documentaries: The Truth is Free

Free Press

From Our Own Correspondent (BBC News)

Frontline (Documentary Archive: PBS)

Glass Bead Collective: Revolution for Your Mind

Go Left TV

GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Harper's Magazine

Have Fun * Do Good

Hearsay Culture (Center for Internet and Society)

Here and Now (WBUR: Boston)

Heritage Foundation: Leadership for America

Huffington Post

I Cite (Jodi Dean)

Independent Media Center

Institute for Policy Studies: Ideas Into Action for Peace, Justice, and the Envirnment

Inter Press Service

Jacques Rancière

Jobs With Justice

Labor Notes

Latin Radical

Lenin's Tomb

Lew Rockwell

Living on Earth: Sound Journalism for the Whole Planet

London Review of Books

LRIS: Labor Relations Information System (Police/Firefighters)

Media Ecology: Composting the Western Mind

Media Matters

Military: All the Benefits of Service

Mother Jones

Move On

The Nation

National Journal Online

National Lawyers Guild

News Dissector (Danny Schecter)

News Max

New York Times

Open Democracy: Free Thinking for the World

Open Left

Open Source (Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies

Orion Magazine: Nature/Culture/Place

Point of Inquiry (Center of Inquiry)

Political Affairs Magazine: Marxist Thought Online

Political Ticker (CNN)

Preserve Lexington

The Progressive

Project Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News (Sonoma State University)

Provoke Radio: Where Faith and Social Justice Meet

Race: The Power of an Illusion

Reason Magazine: Free Minds and Free Markets

Reason TV

Revolution by the Book (AK Press)

Ring of Fire

Rolling Stone

Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty

Save the Internet: Fighting for Internet Freedom

Slate V: Politics and News (Videos)

Snag Films (Free Documentaries Online)

Socialist Review

The Smirking Chimp

SourceWatch

Students for a Democratic Society

Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought

TechPresident

TomDispatch

To the Point (KCRW)

Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Truthout

UChannel: Access to a World of Ideas

UChannel: Politics

United States House of Representatives

Voices from the 2008 ACLU Membership Conference

Voice of San Diego

Wake Up America: Three mothers determined to help restore law and order to our government.

Wall Street Journal

Washington Babylon (Ken Silverstein/Harper's)

Weekly Signals Interviews (KUCI: University of California-Irvine)

World Socialist Web Site

Worldview (WBEZ: Chicago Public Radio)

Z-Net: The Spirit of Resistance Lives


2008:

Counterspin: Michael Ratner on the Detainee Abuse Report, Alfie Kohn on Obama's Education Nominee

Nathan Hodge: YouTube, Twitter--Weapons in Israel's Info War

Bill Moyers Journal: Ken Silverstein on Influence Peddling in Washington DC

David Morgan: Senate Report Ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib Torture; Democracy Now: Senate Report Finds Rumsfeld Directly Responsible for US Torture...

Michael T. Klare: The Fall of Triumphalism; GLOBAL TRENDS 2025: THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL'S 2025 PROJECT

Democracy Now: US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers

Lisa Miller: Our Mutual Joy

John Nichols: Hands off the United Auto Workers (UAW)

Media Matters: John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation

Democracy Now: Winter Soldier on the Hill -- War Vets Testify Before Congress

Der Spiegel International: The Riots in Greece and Solidarity Protests Across Europe (Reports/Photos)

HUM 220: Peace/Conflict Studies (Historical) Supplement Pt. 6

Open Source: Douglas Blackmon - Neo-Slavery in Our Times

Associated Press: Laid-off workers occupy Chicago factory; Jobs With Justice: Hold Bank of America Accountable; UE Updates on the Occupation

On the Media: Money Talks/Gateway Drugs (Pharmaceutical Industry)

Excerpt from the 5th supplement for HUM 220: Peace/Conflict Studies (Historical Perspectives) course

Film School: Director Phillip Noyce on Catch a Fire

Film School: ABIGAIL DISNEY the producer of PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL

Cecilia Boateng: Response to Battle of Algiers

Film School: KURT KUENNE the director of DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER

Fora TV: Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by David Harvey

Democracy Now: Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson Dissect Obama’s New Economic Team & Stimulus Plan

Democracy Now: Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene

Henry Giroux and Kerry T. Burch: Corporate Transformation of School Knowledge and the Mass Production of Idiocy

Democracy Now: Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama’s Intelligence Transition Team

Barack Obama Considering Eric Holder for Attorney General: Why We Should Be Concerned About His Role Defending Chiquita Brands in Columbia?

Photojournalist Gustavo Vilchis: Oaxaca--Remembering the 2006 Uprising

Provoke Radio #87: The Spiritual Lessons of the Financial Crisis

RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA: Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs

Progressive Radio: Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Progressive Radio: Stephen Pimpare - A People’s History of Poverty in America

Radio West: Responding to Prop 8

London Review of Books: Slavoj Žižek - Use Your Illusions

David Wieck: Habits of Direct Action

NOW on PBS: Prisons for Profit

Center for Media and Democracy: Welcome to the Fifth Annual Falsies Awards!

Sans Titre: "Direct action implies one's acting for one's self..."

This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: Anthropologist John Comaroff on the Obama Moment

Open Source: Nicholson Baker - Human Smoke

Nancy Scola: Obama Puts Well-Known Internet Advocate in Charge of FCC Review

Rachel Maddow: On Why Leiberman Should Lose His Chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

Sylvère Lotringer on Paulo Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude

Slavoj Žižek: "The Spectre of Ideology"

Health Director for the Veterans Administration: Average of 18 War Veteran Suicides a Day and 200,000 Sleep Homeless On the Streets On Any Given Night

Democracy Now: On Veterans Day, 15 Vets of Iraq and Afghanistan Face Trial for Antiwar Protest

Aristotle: Reasoned Speech (and Writing)

Bill Moyers Journal: Fred Harris on The Kerner Commission--40 Years Later

Bill Moyers Journal: The fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal healthcare

Bill Moyers Journal: International Lawyer Phillippe Sands on TORTURE TEAM: RUMSFELD'S MEMO AND THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN VALUES

Bill Moyers Journal: Keeping the Faith--Pat Robertson's Regent University

Bill Moyers Journal: Historian Eric Foner and Legal Scholar Patricia J. Williams on the Significance of the 2008 Presidential Election

Film Couch #95: The Wisdom of Crowds, the Horror of Mobs; Fury; The Ox Bow Incident; 12 Angry Men; To Kill a Mockingbird

Naomi Wolf in the Documentary "The End of America" Directed by Rick Stern and Annie Sundberg

Film School: Director Amy Berg on DELIVER US FROM EVIL

MIT World: Eric Foner - “The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005.”

Film School: PETER GALISON and ROBB MOSS co-directors of SECRECY

Sean Wilentz: The Worst President in History

Economic Question: Who Is Abusing Government Welfare?

Institute for Policy Studies: Understanding the Economic Crisis

Kate Sandilands: Radical Democracy

Project Censored: Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

BBC World Service Documnetaries: Failure or Fraud?

Democracy Now: Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Moore on the Election, the Bailout, Healthcare, and 10 Proposed Decrees for the New President’s

BBC Documentaries: America's First Principles

Hollywood Bitchslap: Stefan Forbes on Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Eugene Jarecki: The Straight Talk Train Wreck

David Bordwell: It Was a Dark and Stormy Campaign (on Narrative)

C-SPAN After Words: Jane Mayer The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

C-SPAN After Words: James Bamford The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

Milk (Gus Van Sant)

Hakim Bey: Poetic Terrorism

Republicans Against 8

Mona Domosh: On Nationalism

Bill Moyers Journal: James K. Galbraith

50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker: The Hidden Labor of Capitalism

Eugene Jarecki on “The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril”

Ignoring Evidence, Mexican Authorities Charge Activists with 2006 Murder of Independent Journalist Brad Will

Ex-Asst. Treasury Sec. Paul Craig Roberts on Wall St. Bailout: “Has Deregulation Sired Fascism?”

John Nichols: Alaska's Largest Paper Labels Sarah Palin "Orwellian"

Christopher Buckley leaves National Review after Obama endorsement

Jonathan Raban: Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill

James Bamford: “The Shadow Factory -- The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America”

Sam Green, Co-Director of THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, on the New Notoriety of William Ayers

Joan Hamilton: The Electronic Activist

Eamonn Fingleton: Getting the American economy back on solid ground will require new financial regulations.

Andrew J. Bacevich: The conservative case for Barack Obama

Errol Morris: "The Photographs Actually Hide Things From Us"

Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

Bernard Lowns' Prescription for Survival

Patrick Cockburn: On the Surge in Iraq

Andrew Bacevich: The End of Exceptionalism

Laura Poitras' My Country, My Country (Iraq)

BBC investigative journalist Greg Palast, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, and the Brennan Center for Justice: Voter Purging and Vote Rigging

Maryland Police Added Peace Activists to Terrorism List

Martial Law Threatened to Politicians If They Did Not Pass the Bailout Bill

R.D. Laing: The Mystification of Experience

What is the Green Scare?

Naomi Klein: On Milton Friedman's Links to the Current Economic Crisis

Linda Blimes and Joseph Stiglitz - The Iraq War in dollars and cents

Fora TV: The Future of Health Care--The Candidates' Plans

Sara Robinson: 11 Racist Lies Conservatives Tell to Avoid Blaming Wall Street for the Financial Crisis

Michael Benton: The Politics of Meat 2.0

Bill Moyers Journal: Andrew J. Bacevich Interview

Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners

Tim Weiner: Setting the Record Straight on the CIA

Word for Word: David Cay Johnston--How the Rich Get Richer

The Bat Segundo Show #205: Errol Morris

Ethics and the Will of God: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Michael Benton: Response to a Message about the Threat of Islamo-Fascism

Alexa Kolbi-Molinas: Proposed Bush Administration Rule Fails to Strike Balance Between Religious Liberty and Access to Health Care

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: Texas Public School Officials Promote Controversial Bible Curriculum

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: Philip Zimbardo on The Lucifer Effect

Adventures in Sci Fi: Cory Doctorow on Little Brother

Bernie Sanders: A Voice of Reason in the Economic Panic

Stephen Power and Gary Fields: How Voter Fury Stopped Bailout

Matt Taibbi: The scariest thing about Sarah Palin isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America

University of Illinois: THE AAUP REAFFIRMS GRAD EMPLOYEE AND STAFF RIGHTS

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Eric Schlosser: America Needs a New New Deal

Mark Kurlansky -- Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

An interview with Thomas Frank author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

An interview with Dexter Filkins the author of The Forever War

John R. MacArthur, the author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America

The Farm Bill: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact

We the People Stories: Cornel West -- Democracy Matters

We the People Stories: Howard Fineman--The Thirteen American Arguments

We the People Stories: The Legacy of 1808--Modern-Day Slavery

Benjamin Barber: Global Citizen or Global Consumer?

Mort Rosenblum: Escaping Plato's Cave; Carlotta Gall's Story; Taxi To the Dark Side

Mark Achbar's The Corporation Available for Free Online

To the Best of Our Knowledge: Sherman Alexie; Alice Walker; V.S. Naipaul; Orhan Pamuk; Amy Tan; Toni Morrison

James s. Henry: Socialism for Bankers, Savage Capitalism for Everyone Else?

The Nation: Ten National Security Myths

Studio 360: Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure; Depicting Abu Ghraib

Jane Mayer: The Dark Side/Extraordinary Rendition/Outsourcing Torture; Canadian Citizen Imprisoned By U.S. Speaks Out

Bolivia in confrontation - Lara Pullin on attempted September coup

Alex Gibney: Gonzo

E.J. Dionne: Religion and American Politics

Thomas R. Frieden: Prevention and Primary Care

Jonathan Lethem: The Art of Darkness

Shashi Tharoor: Restoring America's Image in the World

Fora TV: Bill Clinton in conversation with moderator James Fallows at the Aspen Institute's 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival

Is This What Democracy Looks Like?: Glass Bead Collective Footage of Mass Arrests at RNC

Film School: Makoto Sasa on FIRE UNDER THE SNOW

Film School: Irene Salina on FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER

BBC World Service: My Senator, My Vote, Pt. 1

Amy Goodman: The Party Police

Amy Goodman: Wall Street Socialists


Michael Benton: Why I Listen to "Common Sense with Dan Carlin"

Q and A: Peter Wallison--The History and Background of Fannie Ma and Freddie Mac

Bill Moyers Special Report: Buying the War: How Did the Mainstream Press Get it So Wrong?

Frida Berrigan: Military Industrial Complex 2.0; Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger and Chris Mallinos: Cheated into Working in a War Zone

The Story: Connie Heerman--At Risk Teacher

Speaking of Faith: Seane Corn on Yoga--Meditation in Action

Open Source: Douglas Blackmon on Neo-Slavery in Our Times

Worldview: Catholic Priests' Strategy for Peacemaking; Global Activism--Making Rugs and Improving Lives in Pakistan

Worldview: Zimbabwe: Power-sharing Deal Reached?; Burmese Refugees Find Work in Meat-Processing Plants; Resettling Refugees in the U.S.

On the Media: Instruments of War; Cooking the Books

Weekly Signals: An interview with Karl E. Meyer the author of Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

Weekly Signals: An interview with Steven T. Wax author of Kafka Comes to America

Voices From the 2008 ACLU Membership Conference: Reverend Carroll Pickett "At the Death House Door"

Adolph Reed, Jr.: Where Obamaism Seems to be Going

UChannel: Marwan Muasher on The Arab Centre--The promise of moderation

America Abroad Media: Battleground Lebanon--Where Politics, Faith and Identity Collide

America Abroad Media: Power, Politics, and the Olympics

Is This What Democracy Looks Like?: FOX Journalists Embedded in Police Forces While They Arrest Independent Media Journalists

The Thirteen American Arguments: #1 Who Is a Person?

Philosophy Bites: Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

Tom Burgis: Addicted--William Burroughs and a world in heat

Pico Iyer: the “Transcendentalist” Dalai Lama

On the Media: Obama Nation Abomination

On the Media: Kiss Off; Margins of Error

Media Matters: Myths and falsehoods about oil policies

Classic Video: Stephen Colbert's Speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner

BBC News: Peru's first 'visionary' editor Doris Gibson

BBC News: Sign of the Times (Russia/West)

BBC News: Georgia exposes UN's weakness

FilmSchool: Patricia Foulkrod on THE GROUND TRUTH

Kirby Dick on This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Ethics Bites: Tim Scanlon on Free Speech

The Eclectic Review: Electronic Voting and Voter Fraud

BBC World Service Documentaries: The Presidential Candidates

Democracy Now/AlterNet: Is This What Democracy Looks Like, Pt. 1

After Words: Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

Bill Moyers Journal: Andrew J. Bacevich on The Limits of Power

Bill Moyers Journal: Philip P. Pan "Out of Mao's Shadow"

Douglas Blackmon: Neo Slavery in Our Times

Online Storytelling & Cause Marketing: An Interview with Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios

Stephen L. Carter at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Behind the "Just War Theory"

Voices From the 2008 ACLU Conference: Jessica Yee

Irkaly Areshidze: Democracy and Autocracy in Eurasia--Georgia in Transition

Matthew Nisbet: What is Framing?/Popular Science vs Framing

Sci Fi Dimensions: Ken MacLeod

To the Best of Our Knowledge: The New Abolitionists

Radio West: Valerie Plame Wilson on Fair Game

Living On Earth: Ah, Wilderness; Endangered Again; Invasion of the Invasives; Wireless Science; Amazing Rare Things; Spider Conversations

America Abroad Media: The Global Politics of Climate Change

Annenberg Media: Ethics in America

Annenberg Media: The Constitution

Annenberg Media: Democracy in America

Annenberg Media: Making Civics Real

Neil Young: Let's Impeach the President

Steven Wishnia: Both of My Grandfathers Were Illegal Immigrants

Paul Krugman: Know-Nothing Politics

Democracy Now: Questions Raised over Whether Government Is Framing Dead Army Scientist for 2001 Attacks

Humanist Network News #13: Sex & Humanism

Marty Klein: The War on Sex

SciFiDimensions: Cory Doctorow on Little Brother

Speaking of Faith: Steven Waldman "Liberating the Founders"

Rev. Jim Wallis envisions a new spiritual and political revival

Minnesota Public Radio: A critical look at the presidential nominees

This Brave Nation: Tom Hayden and Naomi Klein

This Brave Nation: Pete Seeger and Majora Carter

This Brave Nation: Anthony Romero and Ava Lowery

This Brave Nation: Bonnie Raitt and Dolores Huerta

This Brave Nation: Carl Pope and Van Jones

Robert Scheer: The Pornography of Power--How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America

NOW on PBS: Torture Tactics--Interview with Alex Gibney

Democracy Now: “One of the Greatest Intrusions, Potentially, on the Rights of Americans Protected Under the 4th Amendment”–Sen. Feingold Blasts Telecom Spy Bill

Parker Palmer: How to Build a Democracy

Bill Moyers Journal: A Government ill Executed

Chris Hedges: America's Democratic Collapse

Michael Benton: Response to I Am a Sex Addict

Jack Hoot Stull: Patriotism and Group Identity

Michael Benton: On Feminism

Point of Inquiry: Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science

Clarke's Take On Terror: What Bush's Ex-Adviser Says About Efforts to Stop War On Terror

Rebecca Solnit: The Siege of the Sierra Club

"The White House Has Disinvited the Poets" by Julia Alvarez

Free Radio Santa Monica: Folksinger/Activist Utah Phillips on the Labor Movement

World Socialist Web Site: One year since the US invasion of Iraq

Mother Jones: Medicare's Hidden Bonanza--After millions in campaign contributions, an insurance magnate's 10-year lobbying campaign finally pays off

Michael Benton: Downloading Music--Serious Crime? Welcome to Bizarro World?

World Socialist Web Site: Federal authorities drop subpoenas to Iowa antiwar activists

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris: Now the Pentagon tells Bush--climate change will destroy us

Mark Green: W's Reality Gap

David Berman: Thinking Long Term

An Open Letter To Edward Rendell and Other Governing Bodies In the Commonwealth of PA

Ian Williams: The Real National Security Threat

Atlantic Monthly: Scott Turow--Life or Death Decision

David Morriss: More Public, Less Private

George Lakoff: The Frame Around Arnold

Michael Moore: White Frights

Dion Dennis: Inventing "W, The Presidential Brand"--The Rise of QVC Politics

Emma Goldman: Minorities vs. Majorities

Emma Goldman: Marriage and Love

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Solitude of Self

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