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We are a group of concerned Americans who live in and around Tübingen. We vary in age, education and profession, but we agree that America is on the wrong track.
We call for foreign and domestic policies based on the long-term interests of the American people and the world.
We favor policies based on the active support of and cooperation with the international organizations that America was decisively involved in creating and within the limits of international laws and norms which America was decisively involved in formulating.
We join a long American tradition in calling for an end to policies of empire. We reject the militarization of our economy and our foreign policy.
Wir sind eine Gruppe besorgter Amerikaner/-innen aus Tübingen und Umgebung. Wir kommen aus verschiedenen Altersklassen, Bildungsständen und Berufen, teilen aber die Ansicht, dass Amerika den falschen Kurs eingeschlagen hat.
Wir fordern eine Außen- und Innenpolitik der USAs, die auf den langfristigen Interessen der Amerikaner und der Welt beruht.
Wir treten ein für die aktive Unterstützung der internationalen Organisationen, zu deren Gestaltung Amerika entscheidend beigetragen hat und für eine Politik innerhalb der internationalen Normen und Gesetze, an deren Formulierung Amerika entscheidend mitgewirkt hat.
Wir verstehen uns als Teil einer langen Tradition amerikanischer Progressiven und Antiimperialisten. Wir lehnen die Militarisierung unserer Wirtschaft und unserer Außenpolitik ausdrücklich ab.
Several of our members are involved in the Military Counseling Network here in Germany.
Americans living abroad may find the list of online radio programs especially useful for keeping in touch with what is going on at home without having to rely on the German press and the US corporate media. After the radio shows, we list some popular progressive blogs.
Radio Programs-
Media Matters with Bob McChesney
This is a weekly radio show (airs on Sunday) in which media expert and professor Bob McChesney invites a guest expert. The theme is almost always directly related to media issues. When it isn't and the speaker is a leading progressive thinker or activist, McChesney will often guide the conversation toward media issues. Available as mp3 download.
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Pacific.org
This is a community radio project which has been running since 1949. The programs include Democracy Now!, Sunday Salon(both listed below) as well as several other shows. The two listed here are the best. Flashpoints and Free Speech Radio News are also of interest. Pacifica also has programming on special events such as judge nominations and hearings.
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman is an hour-long program which runs every weekday. It can be viewed online as a TV show or listened to as a radio program. She has progressive and conservative guests as well as up-to-date coverage of progressive issues and events. Available as mp3 download, including an archive of old shows. Highly Recommended!
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Sunday Salon with long-time activist Larry Bensky.
This is a two-hour show that airs every Sunday morning. Don't let Larry Bensky, who can sometimes come off as a little arrogant, get you off. Not only is he very knowledgeable, he has great guests and covers great issues. Available as mp3 download, including an archive of old shows.
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Air America Radio
This relatively new project has progressive programming available on internet streaming 24/7. The programs are a real mixed bag. It is very supportive of the Democratic party and supported by advertizing. If the kinds of gimmicks being advertized is any indication of the brainpower of their listenership, then things do not bode well for the mainstream "left". There are occasionally interesting insights and commentaries. Al Franken's show (on in the early evening European time) is usually very funny.
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Radio Times
with Marty Moss-Coane at WHYY is a daily one-hour show which often features progressive topics or progressive guests. Available as mp3 download, including an archive of old shows.
This list of progressive news and commentary blogs will continue to grow, but will remained limited to particularly substantive or popular sites.
- CounterPunch is a very popular progressive news source.
- moveon.org mobilizes campaigns for progressive causes.
- Daily Kos is a very popular liberal politblog.
- Greg Palast presents hard-hitting, unembedded investigative reporting with an emphasis on foreign policy.
- OpenLeft.com - "...a news, analysis and action website dedicated toward building a progressive governing majority in America."
- The Tom Dispatch describes itself as a "regular antidote to the mainstream media."
- freepress.net is a media reform project.
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting This is the website of FAIR, a national media watchgroup very critical of mainstream media bias.
- Common Dreams Newscenter a comprehensive progressive news source
- mediachannel.org "a global network for democratic media", a media watchdog and news source for journalism and media issues
- Robert W. Jensen is a professor at the University of Texas involved in all kinds of progressive issues.
- empirenotes.org is a weekly blog with a progressive perspective focused on issues of American foreign and military policy.
- underthesamesun.org is a progressive blog with a global perspective.
- MediaMatters for America This is not associated with Bob McChesney's Media Matters radio program (see above). "Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
- Project Vote Smart "...a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense System to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings."
- Progressive Legistlative Action Network "The mission of the Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN) is to pass progressive legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators."
- David Sirota an investigative journalist and author on domestic politics
- Consortium News tries to pick up stories that are inadequately covered in the mainstream media.
- Free Press provides progressive news and commentary.
- In These Times is a bi-weekly report outside the mainstream press.
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