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Why Occupy Wall Street Ain't No 'Tea Party'
While similar conditions gave rise to each movement, Ernest Canning explains why they are now vastly different...
w/ Brad & Desi
TODAY: Occupy movement decries dirty fossil fuel; New oil spill in NZ; Keystone XL pipeline & State Dept. cronyism; PLUS: RW freakout over peaceful Occupier protests...
Previous GNRs: 10/6/11 - 10/4/11 - Archives...
Krugman Nails It:
'Panic of the Plutocrats'
'The extremists threatening American values are...not the people in Zuccotti Park'...
GOP Official: 'Zero Votes For Some Candidates'
PA county's Republican Election Director Craig Adams calls in to 'Malloy Show' to discuss fight for paper-ballots, exam of county's failed ES&S; e-voting systems...
'Worse Than Jim Crow Era': 96-Year Old African American Woman Denied Voter ID in TN
After legally voting for 70 years, Dorothy Cooper denied Photo ID under GOP's new voter suppression laws...
Brad Guest Hosting 'Malloy' Last Week!
We had a great week of Occupation Nation shows! Thanks to all for listening, chatting, calling and occupying your public airwaves! All the archives now follow below...
OUR 2-PART MOTHER JONES EXCLUSIVE
Click for 'Secret Koch Tapes' coverage...
VIDEO: 'Rise of the Tea Bags'
Brad interviews American patriots...
'Democracy's Gold Standard'
Hand-marked, hand-counted ballots...
Brad's Upcoming Appearances
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Special Coverage Archives
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 'Terror Tools' Spy Plot
Wisconsin 2011 Supreme Court Election Debacle
It Isn't Journalism: Woeful MSM Coverage of Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election 'Recount'
Corporate media fails to tell story of massive irregularities, e-vote failures...
Japan Quake/Tsunami/Nuke Emergency
6/4/11: Fukushima Radiation at Highest Level Since Crisis Began
Germany announces plan to dismantle all nukes by 2022...
5/12/11: TEPCO Admits Unit 1 Reactor 'Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed
Radiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel...
3/30/11: AUDIO: Brad on KPFK w/ Fukushima News and More...
Joined by the lovely Desi Doyen of the Green News Report...
3/29/11: 'Maximum Alert': Crisis Continues, TEPCO Prez Hospitalized
PLUS: A glimpse at living conditions for the heroic plant workers...
3/29/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Japan Fallout
Fukushima's nuke disaster leads to political shift in Germany; Congressional concerns about US nuke evacuation plans...
3/27/11: TEPCO 'Very Sorry': Radiation Spikes, Work Remains Perilous
Plant operator apologizes, again; AP reports they 'all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history' in designing safe-guards'...
3/25/11: 'Grave And Serious': More Comparison to Chernobyl Levels
Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs 'recommended'...
PLUS: German study uses French data to corroborate findings from Austrian, U.S. scientists, suggesting Fukushima disaster should be reclassified as 'level 7' accident, on par with Chernobyl...
3/25/11: Brad on 'Randi Rhodes Show' on Disaster, US 'Fallout'
Breaking developments and speculation on the supposed 'nuclear renaissance' previously scheduled for the US...
3/24/11: 'Step at a Time & a Few More Steps': Disturbing New Science
Stabilization continues, as new data suggests 50% of radioactive cesium released by Chernobyl already released by Daiichi's reactors...
3/24/11: 'Green News Report'- Special Coverage: Japan Disaster
Death toll rising; Tap water warning lifted in Tokyo, spreading elsewhere; Radiation hospitalizes workers; Support for nukes drops in US; PLUS: Struggling to maintaining tradition amidst disaster...
3/23/11: Brad's KPFK Intvw w/ VOA's Steve Herman in Tokyo
'Neutron beams', water 'panic', black smoke and the public responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo...
3/23/11: Setbacks: Black Smoke, Evacuations, Tokyo Tap Water
'Panic' reported as stores run dry of bottled water after government says iodine in metropolitan water unsafe for infants...
3/22/11: 'Razor-Thin Margins', Positive Progress at Fukushima
Control room re-opened as some power returns, workers attempt to restore cooling systems; U.S. NRC offers mixed signals...
3/22/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Nuclear Crisis
Fukushima on edge; Japan's wind farms to the rescue; New US nuke reviews; PLUS: Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico...
3/20/11: 'Closer to Bringing Situation Under Control': Sun & Mon
Stabilization precarious; UPDATED: Gray smoke forces evacuation...
3/19/11: Some Reactors 'Stabilized' as War Breaks Out Elsewhere
PLUS: Radiation detected in food, water; New Gulf oil slick discovered; War protesters arrested; Slow news week continues...
3/18/11: 'Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared': Friday Fukushima
Spent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind 'saving Japan's ass'; Coulter: Radiation 'good for you'; PM's office tweets...
3/17/11: Brad Interviews Palast: TEPCO Plans for New Nukes in TX
Govt fraud investigator on "bankrupt, corrupt, criminal" nuke companies...
3/17/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Crisis in Japan
Compounding natural, humanitarian and spiraling nuclear disasters - desperate measures to hold off a nightmare...
3/17/11: VIDEO: Close-up Aerial Footage of Crippled Plant
TEPCO offers most detailed view yet of ravaged Fukushima reactors...
3/16/11: Desperation: Helicopters Drop Water On Hot Nuke Reactors
Def Minister: 'We could not delay further'; Four risky drops on Unit 3; Water said in Unit 4 fuel pool; Water cannon trucks next | VIDEO...
3/16/11: Dozens of Countries, Not U.S., Tell Citizens to Leave Tokyo
UK, Germany, France more worried than us. Who ya gonna believe?...
3/15/11: SMOKE BILLOWS FROM FUKUSHIMA'S REACTOR 3
Workers evacuated as radiation levels rose quickly; Govt's chief spokesperson says smoke believed to be radioactive steam...
3/15/11: 'Green News Report': Japan on Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Natural, humanitarian and now man-made disaster, as 50 nuclear plant workers stand in the way of nuclear meltdown...
3/14/11: PM: RADIATION DANGER, EVACS WIDENED, 'STAY CALM'
Explosions at Reactors 2 & 4; Fuels Rods at Unit 2 'Half Exposed';
All but 50 workers evacuated from plant...
3/13/11: EXPLOSION AT FUKUSHIMA'S NUKE REACTOR UNIT 3
U.S. 7th Fleet repositioned after exposure to radioactive cloud
Sunday live blogging 2nd EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/13/11: VIDEO: From Within the Tsunami, a Town Engulfed
Watch as a town disappears in minutes...
3/12/11: EXPLOSION ROCKS FUKUSHIMA NUKE REACTOR UNIT 1
Cooling System Fails at Unit 3 | Govt: 'Partial Meltdown' Under Way Saturday day, night live blog following 1st EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/11/11: NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES AT 5 REACTORS
Friday day, night live blog until EXPLOSION at Fukushima reactor...
3/11/11: 'Big Government Tyranny' Saved Countless Lives
Strict building codes in Japan likely impossible now here...
3/11/11: 8.9 QUAKE, TSUNAMI STRIKES JAPAN - VIDEO
Unprecedented disaster strikes, towns washed away in seconds...
WikiLeaks / Julian Assange...
O'Keefe / Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax...
Judge Rejects O'Keefe, Giles '1st Amendment' Defense in Civil Suit Brought by San Diego ACORN Worker
Another setback for Rightwing scam-artists...
ACORN Scammer Giles Tosses Fellow Scammer O'Keefe 'Under Bus'
O'Keefe's CNN 'Sex' Scam May Violate MD's Felony Wiretap Laws
NYTimes New Public Editor, Meet NYTimes' Old ACORN Problem
'Crimes Caught on ACORN Tapes! O'Keefe's!' Maddow Covers Lawsuit
Former ACORN Employee Files Suit Against O'Keefe and Giles
NYT Public Editor, 'Weasel' Pens Farewell Column
FAIR Echoes Our Critique of ABC, Stephanopoulos Fail
ABC's Stephanopoulos Quotes Discredted NYT w/ O'Keefe/Breitbart
FBI: Details on O'Keefe's 'Wiretap Plot'
O'Keefe Pleads Guilty in New Orleans
O'Keefe Dressed Down by Judge, Allowed to Avoid Trial
'Loser' O'Keefe 'Celebrated' in Song
What? No Pulitzer Prize for Dirty Tricks?!
AP: Breitbart's Newest Video Deception
Brad Interviews ACORN CEO Lewis
Duplicate Anti-ACORN 'Editorials' Astroturfed in Rightwing Papers
Maddow Airs Unedited 'Pimp' Tapes: 'Firestorm Pure Manure'
NYT's ACORN 'Pimp' Finally Goes Missing?
Maddow Video: ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax 'Triumph of Fake Politics'
CA AG: VIDS 'SEVERELY EDITED', SHOW 'NO VIOLATION OF LAW'
No, NYT, O'Keefe Didn't 'Pose as a Pimp' Either
NYT PARTIALLY CORRECTS ACORN 'PIMP' MISREPORTS
NYT'S HOYT ADMITS: 'TIMES WAS WRONG, I WAS WRONG'
McClatchy/SacBee Corrects Cvrge of ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax (Hint: NYT!)
'Yes Men': O'Keefe, Breitbart 'Sad, Pathetic, Assholes'
Superstar GOP Atty Gets O'Keefe Felony Rap Reduced
AUDIO: Brad on S.F. Public Radio's 'Friday Media Roundtable'
GritTV: NYT's Belated Correction 'Way, Way, WAY Too Late'
VIDEO: Brad on Russian TV re: ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax, NYT Fail
It's About the Democracy & the Media, Stupid
GOP 'Mission Accomplished: ACORN to Close Doors
More Media Condemnation for NYT 'Pimp' Hoax Coverage, Excuses
Media Watchdog FAIR Slams NYT Coverage as 'Wildly Misleading'
VIDEO: 'The Times Botched the Story': Author on 'DN!'
Another Legal Victory: Judge Finds Funding Ban 'Unconstitutional'
Real Targets of GOP ACORN Smears: Truth, American Democracy
Transcripts Show O'Keefe & Giles 'Buried the Truth'
ACORN STRIKES BACK! Demands 'Accountability' from NYT, Others
NY D.A.: 'No Criminality' in 'Highly Edited' ACORN Videos
Toon Depicts NYT Editor 'as Weasel' for ACORN Emails
VIDEO: Breitbart Says 'Had No Idea' About 'Pimp' Hoax
NYT's Public Editor Accuses BRAD BLOG of 'Political Agenda'
Exclusive: NYT Public Editor's Remarkable 'Pimp' Hoax Emails
Giles Confirms on Video: 'He Wasn't Dressed Like a Pimp'
VIDEO: Stephen Colbert Mocks ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax
Vote Fraudster Ann Coulter Jumps Into 'Pimp' Hoax Lying Game
Take Note NYT!: How to 'Edit Video to Meet Your Agenda'
NYT Exec Editor in '05: 'Fact-checking is our responsibility'
Breitbart 'Apologizes' for 'Apparent' ACORN 'Pimp' Lie
Giles Admits O'Keefe, Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Story a Lie
Breitbart Lied About 'Pimp' Claim in Own News Column
Group Demands NYTimes Retract O'Keefe 'Pimp' Reports
Breitbart Contradicts Self on O'Keefe Salary
Rightwing Blogger Attacks Our Coverage, Shoots Self Instead
ACORN Reacts to Times Editor Emails: 'Troubling, Disturbing'
Follow-Up, Quick Summary of NYT's O'Keefe Story FAIL
Exclusive: NYT Editor on False O'Keefe 'Pimp' Stories
Race Obsessions of O'Keefe; Twitter Tantrum of Breitbart
Questions for Breitbart, AP Investigates, NYTimes Fawns
O'Keefe/Breitbart Have Lame Story, Sticking to It
VIDEO: 'Orly Taitz' Andy Self-Destructs on MSNBC
Breitbart is a Criminal, According to Breitbart's Logic
ACORN Defund Bill 'Unconstitutional' After GOP Scam
Anti-ACORN Videographer Arrested at Senator's Office
SC Dem U.S. Senate Primary Mystery...
Sibel Edmonds Disclosures...

Bush Officials Give (Ironic) 'Denials' to Charges
Perle: Edmonds chasing 'imagined demons'
FORMER FBI EXEC SEEKS 'SPECIAL COUNSEL' PROBE
Corroborates several key Edmonds allegations
More Special Coverages Pages...

October 11th, 2011


With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Occupy Wall Street movement pushes back against dirty fossil fuel corporations; World's newest oil spill, now in New Zealand!; Keystone XL pipeline bombshell --- pipeline company's buddies help Obama/Clinton State Dept. approve the pipeline, but no complaints from Republicans; Million-dollar Solyndra bankruptcy gets more coverage than Billion-dollar Iraq war contracting corruption; PLUS: Rightwing freakout over peaceful Occupier protests challenging corporate greed ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Every $1 of coal power costs U.S. $2 in damages; Too late for Central Appalachia to prepare for collapse of the coal industry?; China's PV Feed-In Law Results in Solar Boom, Unlike Weak US Subsidies; Illinois Team Wins Oil Spill Cleanup X Challenge; Study: 25% renewable energy by 2025 would create millions of new jobs; Algae biofuel industry wants equal fed treatment; Lessons for the Colorado River from drought-stricken Australia; EPA Whistle-Blower Warns EPA Must Not Buckle to Industry Pressure and Greenwash Fracking; Sandia Laboratory testing miniature glitter-sized solar cells; Pharmaceutical manufacturer fined for Violating Hazardous Waste Law; This is where your plants will come from after the Ecopocalypse; UN Ambitions in Check on Global Climate Deal; Conservation Funding Sparks Political Battle; Robo-Deer Used to Catch Poachers; CA Bans Possession, Sale of Shark Fins ...PLUS: Obama Rips GOP Defeatism: ‘I’m Not Going To Surrender To Other Countries’ ...

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By DES on 10/11/2011 2:19pm PT  


October 6th, 2011


With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...


TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Coal is a drag on the economy; Coast Guard said 'NO!', but Arctic drilling a 'GO' anyway; Surprise! Koch Industries lied about profiting from Keystone XL Pipeline; PLUS: Occupy Wall St. protesters rally to save the future with action on clean energy & climate change ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Floods drown Asia's rice bowl; AZ utility sued over Four Corners pollution; Stepping up construction of new power lines; Doctors: NY should weigh health risks of fracking; Salazar: 'Fracking' can be safe and responsible; IEA warns of ballooning world fossil fuel subsidies; Mussels, nutrients damaging Great Lakes; Supreme Court ends Bush-era grazing regulations; Florida's invasive species problem worst in the world; Solar Leaf: while Tea Party slimes energy progress, innovators build the future; Climate change and the end of Australia ...PLUS: Attack of the armadillos?: roving bands of “fairly destructive” armadillos may march on DC thanks to climate change ...

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By DES on 10/6/2011 1:55pm PT  


October 4th, 2011


With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...


TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport
VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio!

IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Koch Industries did business with Iran, despite trading ban, alleged to have bribed several other countries; Shell Oil bribed Nigerian officials; Republicans' investigation of Solyndra halts military solar program; PLUS: The future is here: Winning clean energy home designs at the Solar Decathlon ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Hansen: Southern US will become almost uninhabitable; Current 'crazy weather' will 'become the norm a decade from now'; Some sea lice with your farmed salmon?; Tuvalu runs out of water; Mapping organized climate deniers; Who's bankrolling the climate-change deniers?; Study: organized climate change denial played crucial role in blocking legislation; They won't pay: shipping industry opposes waterway maintenance; GOP wants more logging In nat'l forests; Salmonella stays on chickens; Grim Prediction: 9 more years of TX drought?; Cleaning up Washington's Hanford Nuclear Site; Fed oil spill regulations lacking: report; Cleanup approved for largest abandoned uranium mine in Navajo Nation ...PLUS: "I, for one, Welcome our New Hairy, Crazy Overlords"...

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By DES on 10/4/2011 2:29pm PT  


September 29th, 2011


With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...


TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate change denial industry desperately distorting EPA reports; 'Poo Power' lights London --- literally; Historic dam removal creating a bunch of new dam jobs; PLUS: Rand Paul wants the Koch Brothers to go to jail?!? (but he doesn't want you to have safer gas pipelines ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Winners of the Solar Decathlon 2011, ends this weekend; Maathai: Be "active participants" in environmental restoration; Feedlots are hazardous to your respiratory health; American 'allergy' to global warming; Google invests $75m in residential solar; Santa Fe's air among cleanest in the world; Texas air quality the worst in US; New process converts plastic into synthetic crude oil; Artificial leaf could change solar power; Keystone XL: Pipeline divides along Old lines; No one wants Japan's radioactive soil; Pakistan: another victim of climate change; Obama admin delays fed fuel efficiency rules; Gibson Guitars made illegal logging a conservative cause célèbre; Lobbyists spinning weak science to defend BPA ... PLUS: Peak Coal: The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal ...

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By DES on 9/29/2011 2:38pm PT  


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