On today’s Democracy Now!, Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) was interviewed and he is up for re-election. Contrary to what Amy Goodman says repeatedly on her show, transcripts of DN! segments are not always available online (some, like this interview, are only partially there and some are missing entirely). I’ve transcribed the following from the audio [...]
From its first paragraph, the article fails to describe reality: “The OSS vision is of a world in which there are no greedy corporations run by megalomaniac billionaires intent on screwing users out of their hard-earned cash in return for bloated, unstable, insecure software which only operates properly with other products from the same manufacturer [...]
On KPFA‘s coverage of the Judge Roberts confirmation hearings, host Larry Bensky identified Senator Chuck Schumer’s second round questioning as “filibustering”. This is an interesting choice of words for a reason Bensky showed no sign of being aware of—Schumer might want to come off as asking tough questions but by filibustering he is actually keeping [...]
A number of early filmmakers don’t justify their use of the visual medium. Some of these gratis downloadable shows are like this (only some of these are available in formats one can watch with free software. I hope you’ll join me in writing to the others to make their shows available in free software formats [...]
Dave Lindorff and John Walsh have interesting articles in Counterpunch on how the Democrats work against the anti-war movement. Interesting, but ultimately compatible, disagreement on Democratic Party cowardice as well.
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