- Nygaard Notes #499,
January 18, 2012: "Quotes" of the Week; The End of the Mythical War in Iraq; The Propaganda War; The Real War; The Suffering of the People of Iraq
- Nygaard Notes #498,
December 27, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "They are barbarians."Wars of Occupation: The Basic Myth; Iraq: A New "Security Architecture"
- Nygaard Notes #497,
December 14, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "The global war on drugs has failed...";Steve Jobs in China; News for the One Percent; "War on Drugs" Ever More Warlike; Fracking and the "Overwhelmed, Understaffed Inspectors"
- Nygaard Notes #496,
December 8, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "We want a more democratic country";Global Climate Crisis: "We Can Try to Incentivize"; The Iran Terror Plot: Facts Are Not Just Facts; Death Squads? Or War Propaganda?
- Nygaard Notes #495,
November 23, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: ""By 2040, Each Worker Will Produce Twice as Much as Today"; Off the Front Page: Health System "Slipping"; Investing in Right-Thinking Politicians; Prescription Drugs: Regular Old Corruption; Remote-Control War Part IV: Losing Our Minds, Losing Our Hearts
- Nygaard Notes #494,
November 11, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "We are constantly in battle"; Nygaard Notes Paper Version Price Increase; Remote-Control War Part III: "The Time Is Past for Debate"
- Nygaard Notes #493,
November 2, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "Declining toward rock bottom"; Beware Warren Buffett Emails; Drug Shortage Propaganda I: Normal in the News; Drug Shortage Propaganda II: "Eschewing More Ambitious Proposals"; War of the Future: Robots
- Nygaard Notes #492,
October 26, 2011: What They're Saying About Nygaard Notes; Nygaard Notes Pledge Drive: The Basics; The Nygaard Notes Project; Propaganda Just Happens. Dissent is a Choice, Part II: Winners, Losers, and Deep Propaganda
- Nygaard Notes #491,
October 21, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "You continually amaze me..."; Here's How to Make a Pledge to Support Nygaard Notes; Have You Already Made a Pledge? Read This; How Much Should Your Pledge Be?; Propaganda Just Happens. Dissent is a Choice.
- Nygaard Notes #490,
October 13, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: Occupying "1,464 Cities";Ideology, Imagination, and the Occupation of Wall Street; Unthinkable Solutions: Unlearning Our ABCs; Changing the Debate: Lessons from the 1930s
- Nygaard Notes #489,
September 28, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "Dramatically Lower the Overall Costs";A Correction, and Some Lessons Learned; Drug Shortages: What to Do?; When PR Isn't Enough: How Democracies Go To War
- Nygaard Notes #488,
September 13, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "A Difficult Conundrum"; State Spending in Minnesota is Up... And Down; Those Radical Christians!; Capitalism's Conundrum
- Nygaard Notes #487,
September 6, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "Reducing the Size of Government Was a Goal of the Deficit Plan."; Is Government Growing? Six Factors to Consider
- Nygaard Notes #486,
August 18, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "Child poverty rose 56 percent in Minnesota in the last decade"; Understanding "Strategic Communication"; Communicating To Build Political Support
- Nygaard Notes #485,
July 31, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: Inequality "Three Decades in the Making."; Polls as Propaganda #4: Imagining "Systems Polling"; Polls As Propaganda #5: The Deepest Propaganda of All
- Nygaard Notes #484,
July 26, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs; Polls As Propaganda I: Introduction; Polls as Propaganda, Part 2: Steering Toward the Simple; Polls as Propaganda 3: Ways of Thinking
- Nygaard Notes #483,
July 5, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "the number of children in extreme poverty has doubled"; Propaganda In The News: Accepting the Premises; As In Iraq, So in Afghanistan?; "From the Heart" of the Occupier; Resources to Learn About Taxes
- Nygaard Notes #482,
June 21, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "An additional $281.2 billion in revenue"; "Prevailing Wisdom" and the Wishes of the People; "Breathtaking" Tax Increases
- Nygaard Notes #481,
May 31, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "The voice of the people is crystal clear"; The People's Budget in the Media; The Budget You've Never Heard Of; Sources for Learning About the Peoples Budget
- Nygaard Notes #480,
May 20, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: A Few of 'Em; Off On the Wrong Track; Physical Health and Social Health; The Terror That Breeds Terrorism: On The Killing of bin Laden; A Terror Timeline
- Nygaard Notes #479,
May 9, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "They just want to be left alone"; "Agents Fanning Out Across America"; Balanced Reports (Minus the Facts)
- Nygaard Notes #478,
May 2, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "Imagine a Society"; A Word About Progressive Taxation; Catholic Church Spies for the United States; The Empire At Work (Corporate Division); "The Democracy Bandwagon"
- Nygaard Notes #477,
April 25, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "The Basis of Security and Status";War Spending: "The USA Continues to Be Exceptional"; Myth-building and the Arms Trade; Pentagon Waste: Billions. Trillions. "Astronomical"
- Nygaard Notes #476,
April 6, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "A huge win for kids"; Wonks, Nerds, and Corporate Media; Front-Page Big Lie in the War On Terror; Afghan War Extended, No One Notices; "A Kind of a Standard Routine"
- Nygaard Notes #475,
March 30, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "America is different"; "The Kind of Democracy That We Want to See"
- Nygaard Notes #474,
March 12, 2011: "Quote" of the Week; The Year's Top News Stories; Looking Back On Today: What are the Big Themes?
- Nygaard Notes #473,
February 24, 2011: "Quote" of the Week; The Idea of The Commons; The Commons and Egypt; Action Steps to Build The Commons; Educate Yourself About The Commons
- Nygaard Notes #472,
February 6, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "We each have two ideas"; "A Theft is a Theft is A Theft"; Is Taxation Theft?
- Nygaard Notes #471,
January 24, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: "They had a collective strategy..."; Who Owns Wild Rice?; "The Regulatory State" vs Property Rights; Ownership, Control, and Net Neutrality
- Nygaard Notes #470,
January 11, 2011: "Quote" of the Week: Destroying an Alternative Way;Social Wealth, Part I: Cargill, the Rainforest, and Carlos Slim; Social Wealth, Part II: "Civilizing" by Stealing; Social Wealth Sidebar: John Locke on Property
- Nygaard Notes #469,
December 31, 2010: "Quotes" of the YEAR; The 2010 Nygaard Notes Year in Review: War, Wealth, Race, and Empire; The Nygaard Notes Book 2010 Update
- Nygaard Notes #468,
December 20, 2010: "Quotes" of the Week: Three of 'em! Tackling the Deficit: Looking at Some of the Proposals; Why Are There Deficits in the First Place?
- Nygaard Notes #467,
December 3, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "The sense that they will be protected"; The Corrupt and Illegitimate Deficit Commission; Deficit Mania as Class War
- Nygaard Notes #466,
November 15, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: Think Long Term;
Pledge Drive Over. Big Success!; The American People Have Voted. Haven't
They?; Who Voted?; "They Won't Invest in the Country"
- Nygaard Notes #465,
October 25-31, 2010: Why this Pledge Drive Is Unusual; How to Make a
Pledge to Support Nygaard Notes; Why You Might Want to Pledge; Already
a Pledger? Read This; All of Us Are Intellectuals: Toward a Democratic
Dynamic. PLUS: SIX daily extras!
- Nygaard Notes #464,
October 18, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: War Reporting in the
21st Century; Corruption in Afghanistan 1: "A Threat to the American
Mission"; Corruption in Afghanistan 2: It IS the American Mission; Corruption
in Afghanistan 3: Bad Apples and The Whole Bunch; FBI Raids in Minneapolis
- Nygaard Notes #463,
September 22, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "A vested
interest in preserving and improving Social Security."; Social
Security: The Simple Solution; The People Really Support Social Security.
Really.
- Nygaard Notes #462,
September 2, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "We will control
ourselves"; A Perfect Storm for Propaganda: Internalized Public
Relations; The Real Afghan War Strategy
- Nygaard Notes #461,
August 14, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: Blood on His Hands; When "Steady Growth" = "Cuts": The Pentagon and the Media; The Public
Relations-ization of U.S. Culture Part II: Can't Sell a War? Sell the
Warmaker
- Nygaard Notes #460,
August 1, 2010: "Quote" of the Week: "Institutionalized
Racism; The Public Relations-ization of U.S. Culture Part I: What
Is Public Relations?; Hidden Ideology in the News; Learn More About
Racial Disparities
- 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!
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