MEDIA ROOTS — Proving the power of social networking, online writing, and blogging, the U.S. military is pushing to dismiss U.S. Marine Sergeant Gary Stein with ‘other-than-honourable‘ discharge as well as banning the Marine from all U.S. military bases, in violation of his First Amendment rights, for dissing Obama on Facebook. Until the dismissal is finalised, Stein has been removed … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Despite reticent airplay from corporate rock stations around the S.F. Bay Area, radio stations which tend to stick to the band’s older hits squeezed into their ultra-commercial agenda, modern rock band Radiohead continues to maintain its popularity for decades, playing a sold-out show yesterday in San Jose’s Shark Tank, or Corporation A Pavilion, in support of its newest album “The King … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Pacifica Radio’s Guns and Butter have faithfully broadcast another potent weekly instalment of compelling discussions from the radical economics summit in Rimini, Italy produced by journalist Paolo Barnard: Summit Modern Money Theory 2012. Media Roots previously transcribed and featured the first, second, third, and fourth consecutive Guns and Butter broadcasts on the MMT Summit. Here we present … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — On Monday, KPFA Radio’s The Morning Mix spoke with representatives from California’s third-parties about their legal challenge to Proposition 14, Rubin v. Bowen, which created the new statewide ‘Top Two’ electoral system. Under this system, the rigged de facto two-party system has now been virtually codified in California. Given the obscene amounts of corporate funding expended by the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — From warrantless wiretapping to SMART meter invasion of privacy, it seems everywhere we turn we are allowing erosion of our rights to privacy. Meanwhile, the state wants it both ways, as it’s pushed to stifle police transparency by outlawing videotaping of on-duty cops in some states. Legal scholar and professor Jonathan Turley, has noted the absurdity of … Read More
