WELCOME TO MAVERICK MEDIA, an interactive, online resource for news, analysis and informed opinion about media and politics. More than 200 articles and comments, plus unique video and audio, are posted here, including chapters of works in progress about Pacifica Radio and life in the US over the last half century. The goal is to offer a larger context for understanding the evolution of culture, media, and politics, along with problems confronting progressive movements.
Below you will find a Content Guide providing access to most articles and videos, along with other recommended material. Using the links will take you to specific articles, major works, or special features. More will be added in the future. At the foot of the site you’ll find an up-to-the minute, rotating Alternative News crawl. On the Sidebar are more special features, a photo gallery, plus links to recordings, new videos, recommended websites, and links to Maverick Media books and documentaries. Click Subscribe Here for notification of new posts. Search for any reference via the search option, top left. Comments are welcome in response to any article, and reviewed before posting within 24 hours.
As noted in the first article posted on this site, “corporate media's handling of the news has become increasingly unreliable over the years. In fact, mainstream journalists find it difficult, if not dangerous, to cover stories that do not fit neatly into what is known as the Washington Consensus. Meanwhile, corporations have developed sophisticated strategies to promote the stories they want to see, and prevent others from being aired or published. The result is perception management, a highly effective form of social engineering.”
That’s why alternative sources are important: they help people to challenge the knowledge monopoly of elites. Maverick Media is part of that challenge.
So, take a look at the articles, essays, news reports, videos, and ongoing stories available. Please let me know what you think, and where this project should go from here.
Editor and Writer
Content Guide
Recent Articles
Mission Improbable: Revisiting 9/11
Scared Socialist (or, How Deregulation Trashed the US Economy and Government Intervention Became the Only Way Out)
The Presidency Problem: High Crimes
An examination of the original listener-supported network and challenges facing independent media in an age of deception and decline in the credibility of journalism
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DANGEROUS WORDS: A Maverick Memoir
Education of an Outsider in the 1960s * Fragile Paradise: A Vermont Memoir * Prelude to a Revolution: Vermont before the People’s Republic, Haiti under Baby Doc, and how the FBI manufactured a terrorist scare
PRISONERS OF THE REAL: An Odyssey
Incorporating insights from linguistics, psychology, physics, literature, philosophy and management science, Prisoners of the Real examines the cost of society’s preoccupation with certainty and order, and opens the door to a new vision of freedom and cooperation – Dionysian leadership.
New chapters appear weekly.
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VERMONT & THE PROGRESSIVE PARADOX
This eight-part essay looks at the movement that began with the election of Bernie Sanders on March 3, 1981 and subsequently changed the face of Vermont politics.
Managing Perceptions on the Campaign Trail (2000-2008)
Unions are portrayed today as just another special interest group. Yet the true, largely ignored early history of the labor movement tells a very different story.
A three-part series covering covert activities in Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Chile and Georgia, plus the roles of Kissinger and Brzezinski in managing misdirection
News, daily highlights, videos, history, and the first US “third party”
MAVERICK NEWS (text and audio versions)
January 23/09: Small Expectations
January 16/09: Inaugural Moments
January 9/09: Less-Told Stories
December 12: Coping with Recession
November 28: Unintended Consequences AUDIO
November 28: Jesse Guma Interview AUDIO ONLY
November 21: Hype, Hope & Hoaxes
November 14: Mixed Forecasts AUDIO
October 31: Reality Checks AUDIO
October 24: Desperate Tactics AUDIO
October 17: October Surprises AUDIO
October 3: Extreme Makeover Time
WOW MOMENT: “Change has come," November 4, 2008
Barack Obama Wins the Presidency
MORE ABOUT VERMONT
Breaking Out of the Empire Box
Burlington Debates Dropping Al Jazeera
Breaking the Two-Party Monopoly
VIDEO LIBRARY
Fake News: Lost in Iran-slation
Sanders Talks Socialism with Colbert
Vermont TV Ad Pledges Bush Prosecution
VP Debate Preview: On Choice, Church & State
Tim Dickinson on Top Myths about McCain
VIDEO FEATURE: The New World Order - Hidden in Plain Sight
Pacifica Radio: Who's in Charge? (3/18/08)
Also See: Planet Pacifica
Michael Parenti: Dubious Design
Gore Vidal: US Isn’t a Republic Anymore
ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE
Beyond Fear and Loathing (1999)
Assessing Independent Media (2000)
The Empire’s Trade Clothes: On Globalization (2001)
Mission Improbable: 9/11 Theories (2005)
MILITARY PRIVATIZATION
Fire Sale Earth (2000)
Secrets R US (2001)
Material is also organized by topic. The Topic List currently includes: Conventions, Democracy, Economics, Elections, Germany, Haiti, Independent Media, Labor, McCain, Media Analysis, Nonviolence, Obama, Pacifica History, Pacifica News, Perception Management, Satire, Theory, Vermont, War and Peace, and Weekly News. Type the word or phrase into Search to see every article on the topic.
Thanks to the various websites and organizations that have also published my work via the Internet, including Common Dreams, ZNet, Countercurrents, Toward Freedom, Alternet, UPI, Third World Traveler, Buzzflash, Reclaim the Media, Media Channel, Second Vermont Republic, Pacificana, Pacifica Radio Waves, Vermont Guardian, and many more.
Keep in touch with Maverick Media for podcasts and updates on politics, perception management, alternative media, Vermont, and Pacifica today.
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