Of Shutdowns and Sellouts | Weekly Top Ten

Week ending Friday April 8, 2011 Weekly Highlight: NO SHUTDOWN, BUT A LOT OF SELLOUTS by John Nichols The Nation "[W]e will need a lot more FDR Democrats to prevent the broader deal from becoming the greatest triumph yet in the GOP campaign to end the New Deal and bend the arc of history against progress." See article here Spring Campaign The staff at Common Dreams is working from Boston at the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform put on by our friends at Free Press. It is time to re-energize the movement for media reform and media democracy. We are reminded that the connections between the media and issues of social, political and economic justice are simply undeniable. We must have a vibrant independent media in order to achieve our progressive goals. Please contribute to Common Dreams today, if you have not already. Help us reach our Spring Fundraising goal so we can continue our work. And thanks to all who have already contributed to this campaign!! Our Weekly Most Read Views Joseph E. Stiglitz: Gambling With the Planet Bill Quigley: Robin Hood in Reverse in US: Seven Examples Naomi Klein: Joining 350.Org: The Next Phase Thom Hartmann: With or Without a Government Shutdown - Republicans have Already Won the Debate Chris Hedges: This Is What Resistance Looks Like Robert Scheer: The Peasants Need Pitchforks Ted Rall: Fool Us Twice? Can Obama Get Reelected? John Nichols: The Strange Politics of Fitzwalkerstan: GOP Clerk "Finds" Votes to Reverse Defeat of Conservative Wisconsin Justice Robert Reich: Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Obama on the Nomination of Elizabeth Warren Our Weekly Most Read Headlines Unnecessary Austerity, Unnecessary Shutdown Koch’s Web of Influence Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Market, Poll Shows Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal Having A Job May Not Be Enough To Make Ends Meet. Unnecessary Austerity, Unnecessary Shutdown Honeybees 'Entomb' Hives to Protect Against Pesticides, say Scientists Who, Not What, Is Behind GOP Medicare Plan? The Private Insurance Industry The People's Budget: What a "Centrist" Budget Should Look Like 'No Safe Levels' of Radiation in Japan Home About Us Donate Sign Up Archives Video Highlights... US Media Quick to Support War Labor Mural Finds Its Way Back to Maine State House Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning US Into Nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent" Jody Williams At National Conference for Media Reform, A Roundtable on Journalism, Broadband, and Broadcast Amidst Cutbacks and Consolidation Founded in 1997, CommonDreams.org is an Internet-based progressive news and grassroots activism organization. We are nonprofit, independent and nonpartisan. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. © Copyright 1997-2011 You are subscribed to Common Dreams as F.Abdolian.blogi@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe