- 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
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- 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
[top]
- 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
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- 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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- Nygaard Notes # 349,
October 13, 2006: It's Pledge Drive Time!; Basics About the Notes;
How to Make a Pledge; What Makes Nygaard Notes Unique (and Worthy
of Your Support)?; AND The State of Working America 2006
- Nygaard Notes # 348,
October 6, 2006: Media and Propaganda, How it Happens, Part 5: Profits
and Class; Media and Propaganda, How it Happens: Summing It All Up
- Nygaard Notes # 347,
October 4, 2006: An Investment Theory of Ideology in the Media; Media
and Propaganda, How it Happens, Part 4: A Non-Conspiracy Theory
- Nygaard Notes # 346,
September 25, 2006: Hidden Propaganda 1: Cheap Drugs at Wal-Mart;
Hidden Propaganda 2: Thank You, Mr. Billionaire; Hidden Propaganda
3: Where Is It Hiding?
- Nygaard Notes # 345,
September 18, 2006: Media and Propaganda, How it Happens, Part 3:
The ABCs of Propaganda; Colombia: A Case Study in Deep Propaganda
- Nygaard Notes # 344,
September 8, 2006: Off The Front Page: Dumb and Dumber in the U.S.;
Norm Coleman = Fox. U.N. = Chicken Coop; Media and Propaganda, How
It Happens Part 2: What Does a Journalist Do?
- Nygaard Notes # 343,
August 31, 2006: Off The Front Page: Poverty; Media and Propaganda,
How It Happens Part 1: What IS the Media?
- Nygaard Notes # 342,
August 25, 2006: Off The Front Page Jubilee (Well, More Than One,
Anyway...); Instant Runoff Voting: How and Why; Heads Up, Minneapolis
Voters! IRV is Coming!; Learn More About Instant Runoff Voting
- Nygaard Notes # 341,
August 18, 2006: Off the Front Page: Death in Iraq; Insurgency? Or
Resistance? Iraq Propaganda Watch
- Nygaard Notes # 340,
August 15, 2006: Off the Front Page: The Poor Pay More (Structural
Inequality in the U.S.); A Different Way to Support Nygaard Notes:
Hire Me!
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- Nygaard Notes # 339,
July 31, 2006: Off the Front Page: U.S. Violates International Law
(Again); Thinking About Wars, and So Forth
- Nygaard Notes # 338, July
26, 2006: Lebanon: Root Causes and Unconventional Thinking; Recommended
Sources for Understanding the Lebanon Crisis
- Nygaard Notes # 337, July
14, 2006: Somalia: "The Americans Ignored Their Warnings"; Palestine:
"We're Here to Support the Democratic Process"; Iran: "A Sweeping
Initiative to Promote Democracy"; Do You Support Democracy? Reverse
the Headlines and Find Out
- Nygaard Notes # 336, July
6, 2006: Rich Countries Renege, Millions Die, Media Ignores; Looking
Bad? Or Being Bad?; We're OK, They're Not OK
- Nygaard Notes # 335, June
30, 2006: Consumer "Choice," 10,000 Needless Deaths; "Reporters
Reluctant to Criticize the Military"; There's Always Room For
Tax Cuts!; This "May" Be Propaganda
- Nygaard Notes # 334, June
23, 2006: Sunglasses Get Apology, Press Remains in the Dark; Social
Health in Long Island. And Your Town?; The War Against Terror (The
WAT?): Profit Report; Don't Trust Alex Trebek; "The State of Mind
of Buying"; "Two Very Different Philosophies"
- Nygaard Notes # 333, June
15, 2006: Website of the Week: Political Research Associates; Off
the Front Page: U.S. "Increasing Nuclear Dangers and Reducing International
Security"; Polls and Front Pages: Deciding What's "News"
- Nygaard Notes # 332, June
8, 2006: Patent Nonsense: Imagine The Alternatives (Part IV
in the "How Ideas Affect Policy" Series); An End to Copyrights: The
Artistic Freedom Voucher
- Nygaard Notes # 331, May
31, 2006: Off the Front Page: U.S. Kills Civilians, And Plans to Kill
Thousands More; Imagining a Different Philosophy: Part III in the
"How Ideas Affect Policy" Series
- Nygaard Notes # 330, May
19, 2006: Off the Front Page: Welfare Reform and Poverty; Vaccines,
Incentives, and Human Nature: Part II in the "How Ideas Affect Policy"
Series
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- Nygaard Notes # 329, May
15, 2006: Off the Front Page: 4 Million Newborns (and Mothers) Dying
Needlessly; Bird Flu, Regular Flu, and Empty Tool Boxes
- Nygaard Notes # 328, May
1, 2006: Off the Front Page: Uninsured Kids; State of the News Media
2006: "The Idealists Have Lost"
- Nygaard Notes # 327, April
24, 2006: Pledge Drive Pledge Drive Pledge Drive!!!; Nygaard
Notes: Imagination and Vision; Off the Front Page: Who Are The Bombers?;
Infrastructure, Schminfrastructure!
- Nygaard Notes # 326, April
10, 2006: Nygaard Notes: Why It's So Great (and Why You Want to Make
A Pledge); Off the Front Page: Top Lawman Says "We'll Break the
Law"; Oh, Yeah, I Also Read These Things; Big Bird A Trojan Horse
in Indonesia; Fees for the Poor, Tax Cuts for the Rich; A Note of
Hope from Iraq; "Minnesota Guy" Opposes Gay Marriage Amendment
- Nygaard Notes # 325, March
31, 2006: Once Again, the Magic Number Is: 13; How Much Should Your
Pledge Be?; What Nygaard Reads
- Nygaard Notes # 324, March
20, 2006: Introducing a New Feature: "Off The Front Page"; Off The
Front Page: Human Rights, White House Lawbreaking, and U.S. Killings;
Threats and Promises
- Nygaard Notes # 323, March
3, 2006: The "Lesson of Vietnam;" Reduce the Troops, Increase the
Bombs; U.S. Bases and "Imperial Intentions" in Iraq; Human Suffering
As A Result of the U.S. Occupation: The Numbers; Sources for More
Information On Iraq, March 2006; More Untold Stories From Iraq
- Nygaard Notes # 322, March
1, 2006: Imagine. Two Stories About U.S. Bombs; The Daily Airpower
Summary; Why Reporting from Iraq is So Bad
- Nygaard Notes # 321, February
22, 2006: Analyzing the Media, Nygaard Style; One Week of News from
Iraq; What The White House Press Corps COULD Be: Helen Thomas
- Nygaard Notes # 320, February
2, 2006: Global Human Welfare: Not Worth Reporting?; "A Dramatic,
but Largely Unknown, Decline in the Number of Wars"; A Few More
Unreported Reports; Seeing is Not Believing in the Twilight Zone
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- Nygaard Notes # 319, January
25, 2006: Budget Bill About To Pass: You Won't Believe What's In It;
United States Culture?; Chile Social Security a Failure. Who Knew?
We Did; TV-Land: "The Best Possible Environment" = No "Controversy";
"We're All Prepared For That Possibility?" I'm Not!; "Progressively
More Autocratic and Antidemocratic." Who, Me?
- Nygaard Notes # 318, January
20, 2006: The "Benefits" of "Sensible Economic Policies"; The "Nightmare"
in Bolivia: Who's Dreaming?
- Nygaard Notes # 317, January
6, 2006: Why Propaganda 1: To Marginalize Dissent; Why Propaganda
2: Six Specific Reasons; The Scourge of Propaganda: What To Do?; Dealing
with Cancer, Dealing with Propaganda: An Analogy
- Nygaard Notes # 316, December
30, 2005: The Year's Top (Non) Stories; Nygaard Notes Year in Review,
2005 Version
- Nygaard Notes # 315, December
23, 2005: How Propaganda Works: Three Key Concepts; How Propaganda
Works: "Branding"
- Nygaard Notes # 314, December
16, 2005: How Propaganda Works: The Profit Factor; How Propaganda
Works: Transmitting Ideology
- Nygaard Notes # 313, December
9, 2005: The President: Lying or Ignorant?; How Overt and Deep Propaganda
Work: A Case Study; Who Does Propaganda?
- Nygaard Notes # 312, December
3, 2005: Seasonal Gift-Buying: If You Do It, Do It Well!; When Do
We See Propaganda? Six Red Flags; What is "Hegemony?" And
Why Do I Care?
- Nygaard Notes # 311, November
18, 2005: The What, Who, Where, When, How, and Why of Propaganda:
An Introduction; Propaganda Series Part I: What Is Propaganda?; Economics,
Art and Ideology
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- Nygaard Notes # 310, October
31, 2005: The "Liberal" Media Reviews Books on War; Not
in the News I: War Costs Calculated; Not In The News II: Equality
Is Good!; Not in the News III: Democracies DO Make War, Mr. Bush
- Nygaard Notes # 309, October
7, 2005: Sign Up for Nygaard Media Class Now (if you're going to...);
Hurricane Response I: The "Domestic Security Initiative";
Hurricane Response II: "An Unnatural Disaster"; Grassroots
Hurricane Relief, and Beyond
- Nygaard Notes # 308, September
30, 2005: "Operation Offset" - The "Conservative Response"
to Katrina; The Military Spending We Cannot Cut; Massive Theft in
Iraq
- Nygaard Notes # 307, September
23, 2005: "Some of Us Did Not Realize this America Existed"
Race, Class, and Hurricanes; Emotions and the News
- Nygaard Notes # 306, August
31, 2005: What Is Happening in Iraq? Tips for Staying Informed; "Proof"
That Norm Coleman is on "A Crusade of Sorts"; High-Octane
Fraud; The Key Fact about "Free Trade:" It's Not About "Freedom"
- Nygaard Notes # 305, August
25, 2005: A Few Ways to Help Stop the War; Help Stop the Recruiting
of Kids for War
- Nygaard Notes # 304, August
19, 2005: The "phenomenally corrupt" Cheney Energy Task Force; Whose
Law is The Law?; "Almost Inconceivable" That U.S. Would Obey the Law
- Nygaard Notes # 303, August
11, 2005: The Return of the "Presidential" Quotation Marks; "Jingoistic
Flag-waving" and The Perfect Nuclear Storm; Resources for Energy Action
and Racial Justice
- Nygaard Notes # 302, July
29, 2005: Nygaard Teaches Media Class: All Invited; "Two Great Democracies"
Arm Themselves With Nukes; Nygaard Notes Correction and Apology
- Nygaard Notes # 301, July
15, 2005: What Goes Into Producing an Issue of Nygaard Notes?; Lunging
for the Jugular Vein: The Coming Attack on the Income Tax; The "I
Told You So" Section. And Reasons for Hope
- Nygaard Notes # 300, June
28, 2005: The Nygaard Notes Project; Praise for Nygaard Notes!
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