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TOP PICKS
for Video News / Audio News

Democracy Now

Daily one-hours news update; audio and video   Not perfect, but about as good as you can do when it comes to a nightly newscast

Free Speech Radio News

Daily half-hour audio newscast

The Shortwave Report

A basket of the week's world news pulled from shortwave-based news reports from international radio news services

Jim Hightower

Two-minute audio "investigative commentaries" giving his take on the latest blunders and plunders of the plutocratic poltroons that run things; audio format

Guns and Butter

Weekly audio news analysis/investigations into the relationship between capitalism, militarism and politics

Max Keiser Audio  |  Video

Commentaries on the latest happenings with the economy and the corrupt corporatocracy that runs things

Bill Moyers Journal

Good video/audio interviews   Moyers is still one of the best journalists around; he's not afraid to ask the hard questions

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MORE GOOD ONES
for Audio News and Video News

Flashpoints

Independent daily audio news, plus interviews with top progressive thinkers; major focus on the Israeli occupation of Palestine

Free Speech TV

Good long-format investigative reports, keynote speeches, and specials

Counterspin

Unspinning the dizzying misstatements and ignoramousness of mainstream media; audio format

Against the Grain

Audio interviews and analysis on matters like political economy, the global justice movement, philosophical and cultural ideas, and race and gender relations; from KPFA

Media Matters with Bob McChesney

Audio interviews with authors and social/political/economic analysts on a variety of topics

Thom Hartmann

Radio show on relevant political topics   Hartmann is an excellent thinker who successfully escapes the left-right trap

One Radio Network with Patrick Timpone

Interesting mix of audio interviews on the money system and the economy; corporate control, plutocrats and citizens' rights; the food system and health issues

TUC Radio

Good speeches about democracy, freedom, labor rights, and corporations; audio format   Scroll down to MOST RECENT PROGRAMS on left

Vermont Commons Audio

Audio interview programs on agriculture and local-food issues as well as peak oil and energy

Steppin' Out of Babylon

Audio interviews on a wide variety of progressive topics, including environmental

Media Minutes

A weekly 5-minute audio broadcast that watchdogs the media industry, including the machinations of corporate media and Washington policy-makers

Living Room

Interviews and audio news analysis with host Kris Welch

Making Contact

A weekly international radio program with progressive themes

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MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Video News / Audio News

NOW

High-quality investigative journalism and interviews; audio and video; from PBS

On The Media

A weekly audio review of how the mainstream media is doing at presenting the news   Surprisingly good for an NPR production

Frontline World

There are six billion stories on the Naked Planet; these are some of them; video format; from PBS

American Radioworks

Documentary-style audio on a variety of US and world subjects; from American Public Media

Frontline

Investigative journalism with a US focus; video format; from PBS   Used to be top-notch but got defanged during the Bush II years

BBC World Service Documentaries

Investigative journalism with a world focus; audio format

ABC Saturday Extra

A weekly program on issues in Australia and the region; includes some global, investigative and environmental topics

WHY DIDN'T WE INCLUDE...
These Audio News and Video News Programs

National Public Radio (NPR)

Because they rely far too heavily on parroting government and corporate statements, with almost zero investigation or questioning of the corrupt corp-gov cabal; plus the level of irrelevant cultural programming in their hard-core news programs is waaay too high

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Because guests almost always come from the pool of "usual suspects" that argue the left-right facets of the same lie

Air America

We haven't listened to that much Air America, but we don't see much point in a liberal/Democrat version of right-wing/Republican talk radio. The two-party power monopoly—and banker/corporate control of it—is the problem!

CNN/MSNBC/etc

So much potential, so little to see or hear

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