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  • Issues from #300 - #399 are listed by issue number on this page.
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  • Issues from #100 - #199 are listed by issue number on this page.
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Issue numbers

  • Nygaard Notes #459, July 26, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "Documented and Stark Racial Disparities"; Racial Disparities in Health Care; Racial Disparities in Education; Editorializing on Race, Perpetuating Racism
  • Nygaard Notes #458, July 9, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: The Primary Goal for 2010 vs The Buzz Saw; "A Great State to Live in—For Whites"; Unemployment: "Not All Areas Have Suffered Equally"; Incarceration Rates "Minnesotans Must Find Ways to Break the Cycle"; The Racial Wealth Gap Quadruples
  • Nygaard Notes #457, June 24, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "100 percent the responsibility of the Americans!"; Rwanda: Challenging the Conventional Narrative; Rwanda In Recent Years; Rethinking The Genocide: Info on Rwanda
  • Nygaard Notes #456, May 25, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: Kandaharis Favor Negotiations; Militarizing the "Truth"; "The Inevitability and Rightness" of U.S. "Success" in Afghanistan; "The Morality of it Has to Be Explained Better"
  • Nygaard Notes #455, May 11, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "One example of success;" "Totally Unshakable Control of NATO"; How "Willing" is this Coalition?; "Counting on Apathy Might Not Be Enough"
  • Nygaard Notes #454, April 17, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "Little Short of Insurmountable"; Baseball, Taxes, and Quality of Life; Afghanistan: "Success" In the "War of Perceptions"
  • Nygaard Notes #453, April 7, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "The generous and unearned gift of the past"Report on Some Recent Social Security Hysteria; Debunking the Recent Misinformation on Social Security; Military Leader Upset With Peace Movement—Stop the Presses!; A Tale of Two Militaries
  • Nygaard Notes #452, March 27, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: The story of Diego Garcia; Book Review: Island of Shame: Resources on Diego Garcia and The Empire of Which It is a Part
  • Nygaard Notes #451, March 20, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: Avoiding the Perception of The Obvious;March 3: Bad News. Good News. Bad News.; March 15: "Everything Is Out of Sight"; March 16: "A Nationwide Torrent of State Cuts to Medicaid"; March 16, 17: "Public Defender Programs... Dysfunctional, Underfinanced and ‘In Crisis'"; Now Let's Connect the Dots
  • Nygaard Notes #450, March 13, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: Advice from the Admiral; A Close-up View of Propaganda; Bottom-Up Thinking, Top-Down Thinking, and Propaganda; Business News? Cargill The Corporate Citizen; Resources for Thinking and Acting On Palm Oil
  • Nygaard Notes #449, February 26, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: Howard Zinn; "Here it Is More about Changing Perceptions"; The Boy Scouts: "Good Deeds Have a Whole New Meaning"
  • Nygaard Notes #448, January 28, 2010: THE 2010 NYGAARD NOTES PLEDGE DRIVE WEEK II; "Quotes" of the Week: This week the words are YOURS; Creative Ways to Support Nygaard Notes; What Your 2010 Pledge Will Be Supporting: Nygaard Notes in the Age of Obama; How to Go About Making a Pledge
  • Nygaard Notes #447, January 20, 2010: THE 2010 NYGAARD NOTES PLEDGE DRIVE. Here's How to Make a Pledge to Support Nygaard Notes; How Much Should Your Pledge Be?; Public Radio. Nygaard Notes. Similar Method, Different Structure; Already a Pledger? Read This; "Quote" of the YEAR: "Only The Empire Is Eternal"; Help for Haiti
  • Nygaard Notes #446, January 12, 2010: The 2009 Nygaard Notes Year in Review: A Year of Empire; Update on the Nygaard Notes Book: Delayed But Not Dead
  • Nygaard Notes #445, January 2, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "Empire, a state of being and of mind"; The Empire in Our Heads: "The Logic of Rule"; The Empire in The Media; The Practice of Imperialism: Cracking the Code; Reversing The Roles, Revealing the Empire: Ecuador
  • Nygaard Notes #444, December 22, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: An Excuse To Occupy; What is an Empire? Not What it Used to Be; Informal Empire: The Case of Honduras
  • Nygaard Notes #443, November 25, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Empire is the negation of political freedom, liberation, and self-determination." ; "Only The Empire is Eternal"; "They Are Focused on Who They Think Are Threats to Them. Period."
  • Nygaard Notes #442, November 9, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Americans rather like government-run medicine."; From Extreme to Mainstream Via the Media: "Sometimes It Works"; This is What Empire Sounds Like
  • Nygaard Notes #441, November 1, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "a messenger of American good will to an often-suspicious world"; Health Care Action Alert; The Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East: "Countries That You Trust"
  • Nygaard Notes #440, October 23, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Isn't the Iranian regime irrational and crazed?"; The Iranian Threat: Thinking Strategically; Sources for Information on the Iranian "Threat"
  • Nygaard Notes #439, September 29, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "We are human beings who refuse to be defined in the world as mindless military drones and Predators."; Deep Propaganda on Afghanistan: A Case Study; Japan and the U.S. Empire: "Forever Renouncing War"
  • Nygaard Notes #438, September 8, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Iran financed the PFLP-GC, a Palestinian group, to carry out the bombing...of Pan-Am flight 103"; Hope in a Time of Economic Crisis: The Bailouts; "Is Capitalism Fatally Flawed?" Streets, Suites, and Room to Maneuver
  • Nygaard Notes #437, August 27, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed"; People Reject "War of Necessity" Propaganda; People Want Real Health Care Reform; A Declining Empire, A New World Order
  • Nygaard Notes #436, August 21, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "ripe for expansion and consolidation"; Public Relations, Republican Strategy, and Health Care "Reform"; "Hurting the People Whom You're Trying to Help"
  • Nygaard Notes #435, August 6, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "a stunning misallocation of resources"; Manipulating the Headlines, Health-Care Style; Manipulating the Headlines 2: Single-Payer; "It Will Have to Be More Conservative"; The First Draft of (Economic) History
  • Nygaard Notes #434, July 24, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: Occupation is the problem; "Propaganda from Afghanistan Part 3 (continued): The Devil Made Me Do It!; Propaganda from Afghanistan Part 4: Promise To Investigate; Propaganda from Afghanistan Part 5: Hope They Forget OR "Announcement of the Results Was Highly Unusual"; Doing Something About the Occupation of Afghanistan
  • Nygaard Notes #433, July 17, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: Life On Earth; Propaganda from Afghanistan Part 2: Quibbling; Propaganda from Afghanistan Part 3: Obscure the Issue, Blame the Enemy
  • Nygaard Notes #432, July 10, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: The invisible victims of Vietnam; Gaza: Another Self-Investigation, Another Innocent Verdict; Propaganda from Afghanistan: Reporting on War Crimes – A Series in Five Parts; Propaganda from Afghanistan Part 1: Denying the Problem
  • Nygaard Notes #431, June 23, 2009: The Nygaard Notes Pledge Drive: How To Make a Pledge; Pledge Drives: Nygaard Notes vs. Public Radio; Is Your Pledge Due for Renewal?; Why Does Nygaard Notes Talk About Media So Much?; Did I Mention That There Are Two Ways to Make a Pledge?
  • Nygaard Notes #430, June 17, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Looking backwards"; The Saga of the Pentagon Pundits; The Case of the Missing Report; Pentagon Investigates Itself Again. The Result? You'll Never Guess
  • Nygaard Notes #429, June 3, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Yankee Go Home"; UN Economic Crisis Conference Update; Reversing the Roles: The Right of Return; Buried in the "Business" Section
  • Nygaard Notes #428, May 22, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "The participation of the entire international community"; Who Really is The World?; Some Non-U.S.-Centered Recommendations About the World Crisis
  • Nygaard Notes #427, May 15, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "America was not born as a colonial power"!?;Economic Reporting and Reality: Not The Same Thing; We Are The World (Or So We Think)
  • Nygaard Notes #426, April 24, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Evil monsters" and "heroes"; How Profit Influences Media (One of Many Ways, That Is); Profit, Pirates, and Propaganda; Read More About the Pirate Story
  • Nygaard Notes #425, April 15, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "Afghan civilians will bear the brunt of an escalation in the Afghan war this year"; Killing Innocents in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Farewell to Rachel's News!
  • Nygaard Notes #424, April 8, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: TWO "Quotes" this week!;New Decider, Same Decisions; U.S. Goals in Afghanistan, Inside the Propaganda System and Out
  • Nygaard Notes #423, March 18, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "a quiet hum of people getting on with building economic alternatives"; On Freedom, Part Three: Freedom and Solidarity; Solidarity Economics, and More
  • Nygaard Notes #422, March 10, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: "the government they devised was defective from the start"; Digital Television: Help Your Neighbors; On Freedom, Part Two: Freedom and Social Class
  • Nygaard Notes #421, February 27, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: A "very righteous war"; On Freedom, Part One: The Complexity of Freedom; Gaza in the U.S. Media
  • Nygaard Notes #420, February 15, 2009: "Quote" of the Week: It's "repressive" when they do it; Disappointed in Obama? Betrayed? Try This Remedy.; The Latest on the Book
  • Nygaard Notes #419, November 14, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: Obama on Martin Luther King Jr.; So.... How's That Book Coming Along?; What's the Plan for the Book?
  • Nygaard Notes #418, September 5, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "I'm taking a HIATUS..."; Nygaard Notes: The Book; Pledgers; How Can You Support This Book-Building Project?; Nygaard Notes: The Early Days
  • Nygaard Notes #417, September 3, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "...the way that the surge has succeeded."; The "Surge." Has It Succeeded?; The "What's Going On Here?" Paragraph Explained
  • Nygaard Notes #416, August 24, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "Iraq is a sovereign country...";Confusion About Dealing with Drug Abuse; Confusion in Our Public Reasoning
  • Nygaard Notes #415, August 15, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."; Confusion About Dealing With Terrorism; Confusion about Dealing With Hunger
  • Nygaard Notes #414, August 8, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: " The human development approach can be put to excellent use in America"; Why Measure "Human Development"?; How Are We Doing? Beyond The Dow Jones Index; Highlights from the American Human Development Report 2008-2009
  • Nygaard Notes #413, July 25, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "just as wrong as the US adventure in Iraq"; Pledge Drive is Over. Tenth Anniversary Approaches.; Military Retaliation Against Terror: Legal?; War in Afghanistan: The Secret Survey; Afghanistan is Not "The Good War"; Resources for Further Reading
  • Nygaard Notes #412, July 15, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: $162 Billion for War; I Beg of You: Make a Pledge Today; Pledge Drive, Week 3: Become a Type Two (See Below) Today!; Incentives and Obstacles in Health Care
  • Nygaard Notes #411, July 8, 2008: The Pledge Drive So Far; Is Your Pledge Due for Renewal?; What They're Saying About Nygaard Notes; What is Nygaard Notes "About"?; How Much Should Your Pledge Be?; Off the Front Page: Underinsured Ranks Growing
  • Nygaard Notes #410, June 27, 2008: The Nygaard Notes Pledge Drive Basics; All Nygaard Notes Has is YOU; Why Nygaard Notes is Free; Is Your Pledge Due for Renewal?; Everybody Is Ignorant
  • Nygaard Notes #409, June 20, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: War and the "rule of law"; "The Tone of That Time Was Quite Extraordinary"; Classic War Propaganda: A Case Study
  • Nygaard Notes #408, June 5, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "Will you kill us again?";The Birthday of Minnesota, The Birthday of Israel
  • Nygaard Notes #407, May 22, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: One crisis away from financial devastation; Shameless Self Promotion: River City Buttons; The State of the News Media 2008: "Reporting Resources Have Shrunk"; Covering the World: Where's the Good News?
  • Nygaard Notes #406, May 13, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: Torture is not "punishment"; Hunger and Profits: Cargill and the Food Riots; The Complex History of Mother's Day
  • Nygaard Notes #405, April 27, 2008: "Quotes" of the Week: Three this week!; The Invisible Killing of Remote-Control War; UAVs in Pakistan, One Story; Further Reading about the Secret Air Wars
  • Nygaard Notes #404, April 14, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "The air war is simply not visible to most Americans"; The Secret Air Wars Continue: 2008 Update; Why Do They Hate Us? Read the Last Paragraph; Violence in Iraq: Understanding Cause and Effect
  • Nygaard Notes #403, March 21, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: The Rule of Law! Health, Security, and Mandates: The Chilean Experience; Achieving (Which?) Goals by "Putting Ideology Aside"
  • Nygaard Notes #402, March 11, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: Five years of war is too much; The Story Here: High Taxes? Or Equality?; "Stripping Poor Nations of Their Skilled Health Workers"; "Private Insurers Would Offer Policies to Everyone Else"; "A Victory Lap For Bush" in Africa?
  • Nygaard Notes #401, March 3, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: The Market decides, we don't; Housing and the Bush Budget; Seven Federal Housing Programs Slated for Elimination
  • Nygaard Notes #400, February 20, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "Bush's assumptions... are unrealistic if not outright spurious"; The 2009 Federal Bush Budget, George W. Version; Single-Payer Health Care at the State Level: It's Happening!
  • Nygaard Notes # 399, February 7, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: Preaching to the choir; Join the "Friends of Nygaard Notes"; Suharto and His "Mixed Legacy"; Philip Agee and His Legacy
  • Nygaard Notes # 398, January 24, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: He's not a communist; The Venezuela Series Concludes: What To Do?; Socialism of the 21st Century; Further Reading on Venezuela Today
  • Nygaard Notes # 397, January 16, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: " These projects appear threatening to the Bush administration"; Venezuela in the World; Venezuela At Home; Venezuela Intervention Already Underway
  • Nygaard Notes # 396, January 5, 2008: "Quote" of the Week: "Things are looking up!"; The 2007 Nygaard Notes Year in Review
  • Nygaard Notes # 395, December 29, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: They Hate Baseball!; "A Compelling Rationale for Covert Action," Post-Cold War; From Chile 1973 to Venezuela 2007; "Challenges" That Justify Intervention: The Headlines
  • Nygaard Notes # 394, December 23, 2007: Why Think About Venezuela?; 1954: "There Are No Rules In Such A Game"; In Their Own Words: The CIA on Chile, 1964
  • Nygaard Notes # 393, November 30, 2007: Off the Front Page: Hate, Electricity, Sex; "Deficit Way Down" NOT!; Exporting Health Care, Exporting Arms: A Tale of Three Nations; The "Costs" of a Miracle
  • Nygaard Notes # 392, November 16, 2007: Propaganda Theory, Circa 1927; Nobody (Nobody Who Matters, That Is) Was Hurt; Nobody (Nobody Who Matters, That Is) Was Killed; The Return of the Body Counts; Fox Investigates Henhouse Killings: Findings Raise Skepticism; Oh, Let's "Change the Subject"; The "Surge" as the White Man's Burden
  • Nygaard Notes # 391, November 9, 2007: Propaganda Framework I: "Managing a Civil War"; Propaganda Framework II: "The Army's Principal Concern"; Propaganda Framework III: We're Not Responsible for Our Killing; Propaganda Framework IV: The Good Guys and The Bad Guys; Propaganda Framework V: We're Winning!; Propaganda Framework VI: "We Don't Want to Misrepresent Anything."
  • Nygaard Notes # 390, November 2, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Single-Payer Health Care surprise; The Corporate Agenda Is "All The Rage"; Rock the Boat, Lose the Vote: Investing In the "Right" Democrats
  • Nygaard Notes # 389, October 19, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Stability and Order; A Word About How Nygaard Notes Works;Praise for the Notes – and Incentive to Pledge (I Hope); Iran and the Threat of Self Defense; Who Needs Evidence? It's the Axis of Evil!
  • Nygaard Notes # 388, October 12, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: It's just not logical; The Keys to Media Empowerment, Part 2: Beyond Truth and Reality; The Keys to Media Empowerment, Part 3: Asking Questions and Media Activism
  • Nygaard Notes # 387, October 6, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "Rational business decisions," media-style; How to Make a Pledge: It's Simple!; Where Does Your Pledge Money Go?; How Much Should Your Pledge Be?; The Keys to Media Empowerment, Part 1
  • Nygaard Notes # 386, September 30, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: The superrich and their causes; Social Security in Crisis! The (False) Story That Won't Go Away; A Nation of Laws (But Only the Ones We Like); "Mistake" in Minot... Or Was It?; Iran Is the Biggest Threat! Where Have We Heard This Before...?
  • Nygaard Notes # 385, September 20, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: He's "not hearing much"; The Poll of Wishful Thinking; Venezuela and the "Failure" to Follow Orders; Read More About the Silent Subversion of Venezuela
  • Nygaard Notes # 384, September 5, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "I know it's a troubling phenomenon..."; Income, Poverty, Insurance: What's the (Real) Story?; "Image Boosting" Vs. Solidarity: The U.S. and Cuba
  • Nygaard Notes # 383, August 27, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Not the same things!; The Stock Market Meltdown: Where to Start?; Iran: Propagandized Information Leads to Righteous Indignation; UN Hunger Agency a "U.S. Fiefdom"
  • Nygaard Notes # 382, August 18, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: No "influence;" just "warnings"; The Democracy Series, Part 5: How We Understand Democracy, and Why; The Democracy Series, Part 6: Policies that Support Radical Democracy; The Democracy Series, Part 7 (The Final): Resources for Learning More About Democracy
  • Nygaard Notes # 381, August 10, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Air war in Afghanistan; A Problem with Our Nation's Infrastructure? You Read it Here First.; Bridge Collapses and The Media; Reporting on Afghanistan: Bizarre and Terrifying
  • Nygaard Notes # 380, July 31, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "the traditional revolutionary harangue"; "A Broad and Deepening Dislike of American Values"; The Democracy Series, Part 4: Getting Better at Doing Democracy
  • Nygaard Notes # 379, July 22, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "the inequalities in resources that market-capitalism churns out"; The Democracy Series, Part 2: The Skills and Arts of Democracy; The Democracy Series, Part 3: The Values of a Democratic System
  • Nygaard Notes # 378, July 14, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Killing more than the Taliban; Brief update on Afghanistan; Fishing, Freedom, and Democracy; The Democracy Series, Part 1: Democracy in a Cynical Culture
  • Nygaard Notes # 377, June 15, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "Two different types of insurgency"; Off the Front Page: Climate Change; Free Trade? No.; A Meaningless Statistic? The Death Toll in Afghanistan; Compensating for Deaths, "Ours" vs "Theirs"
  • Nygaard Notes # 376, June 8, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "Air Fleet Wearing Down"; Update on the U.S. Air Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Searching for News of the Air Wars; Bad Reporting on Afghanistan and Iraq: Two Examples
  • Nygaard Notes # 375, June 1, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Military propaganda outlined; Shrinking Newspapers, Shrinking World; Democratic Congress in Historic Capitulation: Not Front-Page News in Minnesota; Turn On Democracy Now!; Nygaard On TV
  • Nygaard Notes # 374, May 25, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: The Outlaws of Health Care; Update on Abstinence; War Against Terror 1: "A Jihadi Heart and a Jihadi Mind"; War Against Terror 2: "We Lost Everything for Nothing"
  • Nygaard Notes # 373, May 18, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Congratulations, Outputs!; More on Terrorist Attacks from Two Weeks Ago; Values and the Media, Part 2: How Power Influences One's Values; Values and the Media, Part 3: Values Inside the Newsroom; Values and the Media, Part 4: Who Are the U.S. Journalists Of Today?; My Hypothesis: Tying It All Together
  • Nygaard Notes # 372, May 11, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Bill Moyers; White House Denies That U.S. is Occupying Iraq!; Values and the Media, Part I: Who Wins When News Values Conflict?; Writing (or Seeking) a News Article 101: The Party Talk Technique
  • Nygaard Notes # 371, May 4, 2007: The Spring 2007 Nygaard Notes Pledge Drive is over! Thanks for making it a success!; "Quote" of the Week: "our war on global terrorism is not going very well"; Journalism Starts With Asking Questions: Which Ones?
  • Nygaard Notes # 370, April 30, 2007: The Spring 2007 Nygaard Notes Pledge Drive continues! "Quote" of the Week: "an unfiltered view of coalition operations in Iraq"; News Stories Reported But Never Seen: The Wire Services; Where Do Nygaard Notes Readers Live?; Need Inspiration to Make a Pledge? Read What They're Saying About the Notes
  • Nygaard Notes # 369, April 20, 2007: The Spring 2007 Nygaard Notes Pledge Drive continues! "Quote" of the Week: "Credible investigative journalism requires proper funding"; The Problem With Embedded Journalists; The Story of the Mysterious Embeds
  • Nygaard Notes # 368, April 11, 2007: The Spring 2007 Nygaard Notes Pledge Drive! "Quote" of the Week: Bloggers on secret retainer; Making a Pledge of Support to the Notes: How To; Where Does Your Pledge Money Go?; How Much Should Your Pledge Be?; Nygaard Notes: An Example of Values-Based Journalism
  • Nygaard Notes # 367, March 28, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "the violence that Iraqis suffer daily"; "Target Said It Was Sorry" Ché Guevara, Martin Luther King, and a Vision for the Future; Single-Payer Health Care: The Invisible Movement
  • Nygaard Notes # 366, March 19, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "Hardly covered in our media"; The Secret Air Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Seven Unreported Airstrikes; Reporting on U.S. Airstrikes: The Example of Taji; Learn a Little More About the Secret Air Wars
  • Nygaard Notes # 365, March 7, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Up is Down, Black is White; The Social Security Trojan Horse: Health Care Now, Poverty Later; 90 Percent Favor "Fundamental Change" in Health System
  • Nygaard Notes # 364, February 26, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: $170 billion down the drain; What is a "Trillion?" Read the Business Section, I Tell You!; "Selling People Water by the Bottle Was a Joke"; Billion, Trillions, War, Peace... Understanding the Federal Budget; "We're Going To Be There For A Long Time"
  • Nygaard Notes # 363, February 16, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: "Savings" for some, "cuts" for others; A Mini-History of the C.I.A. 1947-1960; Baseballs, Books, and Boondoggles: A Tale of Two Headlines; A Nation In Prison; Less Jail, Less Crime; The "Condom Cartel" Strikes Again!
  • Nygaard Notes # 362, February 12, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Army investigates self, finds self innocent; E. Howard Hunt and the National Memory System; Subverting Democracy, In His Own Words
  • Nygaard Notes # 361, February 5, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: U.S. Gov't Has It All Wrong, Says World; Four "Out of Iraq" Bills Before Congress; A Strip, A Flip, and a Sinking Ship: The Sale of the Star Tribune (Your Newspaper May Be Next!)
  • Nygaard Notes # 360, January 29, 2007: "Quote" of the Week: Anti-War Resolution -- with TEETH!; A Summary of Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Sources for Information on the Crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
  • Nygaard Notes # 359, January 19, 2007: Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Top Story of 2006; Specific News Stories from the OPT That Were Distorted or Blacked Out in 2006
  • Nygaard Notes # 358, January 11, 2007: Annan: "Blasting the U.S.?" Or Speaking for the World?; The Top News Stories of 2006 in the Propaganda System
  • Nygaard Notes # 357, December 22, 2006: The 2006 Nygaard Notes Year in Review!
  • Nygaard Notes # 356, December 15, 2006: "Quote" of the Week: " Let's cut and run, or cut and walk..."; Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Erupts (Again); Chavez Elected; U.S. Media Baffled; White Christians to the Rescue! Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto"
  • Nygaard Notes # 355, December 8, 2006: Off the Front Page: "Blunting a Leftward Trend"; A Note About the Recent Elections, Democrats, Etc; Iraq and U.S. Elections: "A Tremendous Continuity"
  • Nygaard Notes # 354, November 24, 2006: "Quote" of the Week: Fantasies of "Connection"; Update on Some Heroes in Los Angeles; Layoffs, Layoffs, Layoffs: "This Is a Newspaper Industry Thing"
  • Nygaard Notes # 353, November 16, 2006: News of the Weird I: "The Health Care Riddle"; News of the Weird II: "The Magic of the Market"; News of the Weird III: Afghans Both "Surprisingly Confident" and "Losing Faith"; News of the Weird IV: Just Say No To Sex (If You Want Money)
  • Nygaard Notes # 352, November 4, 2006: A Gallimaufry of "Quotes" of the Week! (Part 2); Election 2006: A Word About Voting
  • Nygaard Notes # 351, October 27, 2006: It's STILL Pledge Drive Time!; What They're Saying About Nygaard Notes (What They're REALLY Saying: Send Your Pledge Today!); Fighting "Delusion Disease" With Nygaard Notes; An Essay on Freeing Our Minds; A Veritable Gallimaufry of "Quotes" of the Week! (Part 1)
  • Nygaard Notes # 350, October 21, 2006: It's STILL Pledge Drive Time!; Making a Pledge to Nygaard Notes: So Easy It's Ridiculous!; Using the Media by Asking Your Own Questions (Nygaard Notes-style); Off the Front Page: Financial Costs of the Iraq War; Off the Front Page: Human Costs of the Iraq War

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