Category: Edgewise

  • Media Alliance Events

    Sunday June 16th, 7 p.m. An Evening with Greg Palast, BBC commentator and author of the NYT bestseller “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” Greg Palast, author and award winning BBC repporter, will speak this Sunday on “George Bush the Second: Subverting Democracy from Florida to Venezuela”. Palast broke the Enron and Florida election scandals,…

  • International Day of Protests Against War and Racism

    APRIL 20 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST WAR & RACISM On March 4 and 5, activists from the U.S. took International A.N.S.W.E.R.’s call for April 20 to be an International Day of Protest Against War & Racism to the Second International Encounter in Solidarity and for Peace in Colombia and Latin America in Mexico City.…

  • Slate Open About Being Duped

    Slate is being very sporting in the way that it’s reporting its own gullibility in this article. It seems that they promoted a poster in their “fray” discussion are to the Diary role and did not percieve that he was playing fast and loose about his identity and his professional affiliations.

  • Concerned about media consolidation?

    Check out the Media Reform Information Center site, a clearinghouse of links and other information about the ongoing vertical monopolization of media and the organizations opposed to it.

  • I Knew that Enron M.O. Smelled Familiar

    According to the Chicago Tribune, “Executives at the former highflying Internet consultancy MarchFirst Inc. orchestrated a campaign of questionable transactions and spending to foster an ‘unfounded illusion of success,’ according to a bankruptcy court filing Tuesday.” Also, “According to one charge, the company engaged in a financial practice known as ’roundtripping,’ where MarchFirst invested in…

  • It’s the Secrecy, Stupid

    Enron is a sideshow. The persistent ill-behavior of the present administration is most evident in its relentless bent toward secrecy – secrecy for Republican administrations, that is. A court just ruled that the Admin must release thousands of documents pertaining to those same energy policy task-force meetings that Cheney is stonewalling the GAO about. Hiding…