What is Nygaard Notes?

Nygaard Notes is an independent newsletter written and published by Jeff Nygaard (subscription info here). Nygaard Notes is concerned with a broad range of issues and ideas, using humor and plain language to reach out to anyone who believes in the values of solidarity, justice, compassion, and democracy. Nygaard Notes is intended to educate, inform, and entertain readers. Nygaard Notes is also intended to challenge its readers, inspiring them to move away from passive ways of thinking and toward more active, creative ways of thinking that lead to positive action.

This website contains a copy of every issue of Nygaard Notes and can be searched by keyword.

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!

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