tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91678033014638467992024-02-19T06:49:32.818+00:00Greg Guma / Maverick MediaMedia and society in the age of uncertainty /
ARCHIVE (2008-2016)Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.comBlogger482125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-5882187451667384292021-09-15T15:15:00.010+01:002021-09-15T16:28:34.766+01:00Vermont & the Progressive ParadoxIn the early 20th century the nation’s progressive movement attempted to control concentrated wealth and widen democratic participation. For a quarter century, reforms addressed workers’ rights, monopoly excesses, political corruption, uncontrolled development, and the impacts of the early industrial era. In the process, many people got relief from the worst effects of uncontrolled capitalism, a Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-66258015242913161062020-10-15T16:10:00.000+01:002020-10-15T16:10:25.418+01:00Dangerous Words: A Political Memoir
MUCKRAKING MEDIA CONSPIRACY CIA TERRORISM RIGHTS FBI UN-AMERICAN REPRESSION DOOMSDAY NARCISSISM COLD WAR SURVEILLANCE LITERACY ANTI-NUCLEAR ANARCHISM FATALISM FREEDOM LIBERATION REACTIONARY MERGER DISINFORMATION PEACE MISSILES ALTERNATIVE CONTRAS DOUBLESPEAK FASCISM DRUGS SECRET IMPERIAL SUPERPOWER MULTIPOLAR RELIGION ECOLOGY CRIME NON-ALIGNED DISSENT Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-9387107815695588972020-10-15T16:09:00.000+01:002020-10-15T16:09:56.831+01:00The People's Republic: Vermont & Bernie Sanders
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It was time for a change, real change...
a revealing look at the rise of Bernie Sanders and the progressive movement that changed Vermont
“The best book on the pre-Congress years” - UVM Library
“Sympathetic but honest” &Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-1347453791440984712020-10-14T19:16:00.000+01:002021-02-21T16:26:25.225+00:00Prisoners of the Real: An Odyssey
An intellectual journey from Pythagoras to planetary consciousness -- and a new vision of freedom & cooperation.
Prisoners of the Real makes the connection between solar and lunar knowledge, illuminating the cost of our preoccupation with certainty and order.
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Exploring Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-75034788269065395742020-10-13T11:00:00.001+01:002021-07-09T01:20:42.574+01:00Planet Pacifica: Power & Politics Inside America’s Progressive Radio NetworkGreg Guma’s examination of the original listener-supported radio network and challenges facing progressive media in an age of deception and decline in the credibility of journalism
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There are so many stories about the end of our civilization, too many to list, perhaps too many for our health. It could be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In this podcast, Greg assesses our worst presidents — the real and the imagined, and our obsession with the end of everything, or a new dark age if we’re lucky. With scenes from Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-40977030496210672412020-01-08T23:29:00.000+00:002020-01-13T22:38:46.148+00:00Top Stories: Maverick Media Reader FavoritesHere are the most-read articles published on this site from 2008 to 2019, based on pageview statistics from blogspot.com. Most of them were also published on other websites, including Center for Global Research, Toward Freedom, VTDigger, ZNet, Truthout, AlterNet, and Common Dreams. However, this list doesn’t consider statistics from other sites. Maverick Media posts have more than 300,000 views.&Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-52988963920776937702019-05-10T19:17:00.000+01:002019-06-25T18:33:26.353+01:00Premature Aging: Selling Work in Scandalous Times
By Greg Guma
I was wearing a hipster-establishment wide tie and cranking across the Interstate toward Lake Morey. Something between fear and early onset dementia had drawn me more than 100 miles to the Governor’s Conference on Older Workers. Actually, it was the “invitation” from my boss, who ran work and training programs across Vermont under contracts with the U.S. Department of LaborGreg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-24280198054637660032019-02-18T13:23:00.000+00:002019-04-10T21:35:56.502+01:00Presidential Power Plays Call for Constitutional Solutions: The 25th Amendment and Beyond
By Greg Guma
Two-hundred and thirty-one years after the US system of government was created in Philadelphia, it appears to be slowly unraveling. Among the recent signs is growing talk about invoking the 25th Amendment, a “constitutional coup” provision for replacing the president in cases of death, resignation or incapacity.
According to Andrew McCabe, the former deputy FBI Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-62316559532842877242019-02-02T19:13:00.000+00:002019-02-02T19:13:03.076+00:00Remembering MLK: Death, Life & SecretsOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of a Memphis motel as he prepared to support striking Black sanitation workers there. Although James Earl Ray initially confessed to the crime – he later recanted – doubts about what happened persist.
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In the late 1990s, former FBI agent Donald Wilson, who investigated the murder, presented evidence he claimed to Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-68649062105409548862018-12-30T15:55:00.002+00:002018-12-30T15:55:49.178+00:001968: When the World Was Watching
Opening a Senate investigation of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in early March 1968, Senator J. William Fulbright described what was taking place across the country as a "spiritual rebellion" of the young against a betrayal of national values. The Resolution, passed in 1964, had given President Johnson a blank check to wage war against Vietnam, based on a trumped-up military incident. Subsequently,Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-9985872017477374162018-12-11T14:09:00.000+00:002018-12-11T14:24:53.411+00:00Maverick News (12/5/08): Strategy Shifts
Ten Years ago.... This week: War Zones – Afghanistan at the brink, the geopolitics of Mumbai, and the problem with pirates; Prospects for Single Payer, food stamps soar, and an obesity update. Music: Vinyl Resurgence and celebrating Odetta. Vermont: Gearing up for Gay Marriage, and Burlington’s Mayoral race. Plus, Drug News: Meth moves south and ending drug prohibition. Live Broadcast Friday, Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-84092081008786826372018-09-25T14:57:00.000+01:002018-09-25T15:25:06.901+01:00Media, Democracy & the Post-Modern AgeThe Truth Deficit
In the Watergate era, journalists were often seen as heroes. Even commercial TV and radio news outlets, although on the way to becoming showcases for infotainment, were considered by many to be potential parts of the solution. By the end of the 20th Century, however, most people didn't trust reporters any more than politicians, and a Roper poll found that 88 percent of those Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-72305600579032887812018-08-01T16:33:00.000+01:002018-08-02T01:54:28.474+01:00Alternative Media: From Phoenix to VanguardThe growth of local and regional newspapers was the leading alternative press development of the 1970s. By the end of the decade there were several statewide weeklies, strong city papers, and smaller weeklies that had outgrown their original campus audiences.
They varied widely in style and tone – from the soft features of the Chicago Reader to the rough investigative Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-53282353798133229872018-03-21T21:52:00.000+00:002018-03-21T23:09:08.464+00:00Cyber Threats: System Failures & Living in DenialBy Greg Guma
In August 2010, when Foreign Policy posted an article citing
credible research and directly warned oil companies worldwide that their
offshore oil rigs were highly vulnerable to hacking, few people took notice.
“Computer commands can derail a train or cause a gas pipeline to burst,” warned former Bush administration counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-63164875001221928782018-03-02T17:51:00.000+00:002018-03-02T17:57:18.357+00:00Fake News Is Focus of UVM Talk and New Book
BURLINGTON — On March 15, Vermont-based author and activist Greg Guma will discuss “Journalism In the Era of Fake News” at the UVM Alumni House, presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The presentation will cover many of the themes in his new book, which was released in February.
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This is Guma’s tenth book. Fake News: Journalism in the Age of Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-67408899407810052612018-01-01T17:48:00.000+00:002018-01-01T17:48:38.376+00:00Humanity at the Turning PointPart 33 of Prisoners of the RealFor a century, humanity has been in the early stages of a great transformation, perhaps the greatest it has ever faced. As revealed in the dissolution of the "superpower" known as the Soviet Union, it is not merely a matter of one economic and social system prevailing over another. All systems are under severe stress. Alliances crumble, ethnic and religious Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-25984192111882676442017-10-09T16:15:00.000+01:002017-10-09T16:15:56.896+01:00Enemy of the State: A Dons of Time Excerpt
"Well-constructed, action-flooded
sci-fi set in a realistic historical world." - Kirkus Reviews
This is an excerpt from Greg Guma's novel, Dons of Time, available from Fomite Press, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. To read the conclusion, Enemy 2
Emerging from the airport baggage
claim late the following afternoon he crossed to the taxi stand for a lift into
town. It would be only Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-35468485230097244522017-05-22T23:00:00.000+01:002017-05-22T23:00:03.009+01:00MIND GAMES: Cyberspace and Psychiatric DrugsAt least 10 percent of all Americans over six-years-old are on antidepressants. That’s more than 35 million people, double the number from less than two decades ago. Meanwhile, anti-psychotics have eclipsed cholesterol treatments as the country’s fastest selling and most profitable drugs, even though half the prescriptions treat disorders for which they haven’t been proven effective. At least 5 Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-62115989673657318662017-03-20T15:10:00.000+00:002017-03-31T00:28:01.113+01:00Secrets R US: The NSA and Outsourcing Defense
This essay is an excerpt from Big Lies: How Our Corporate Overlords, Politicians and
Media Establishment Warp Reality and Undermine Democracy. Guma's latest book, Dons of Time, is a sci-fi look at the control of history as power.
By Greg Guma
Despite 24-hour news and talk about
transparency, there's a lot we don't know about our past, much less current
events. What’s worse, some of Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-43526622116738414182017-03-10T15:22:00.000+00:002017-03-11T00:02:36.484+00:00Deadly Facts: Objectivity & a Culture of ConformityPrisoners of the Real: Chapter 18
About a century ago the Western world entered an age of artificial substitutes, technical ingenuity, mechanical products, technological values, and accelerating motion. The watchword of that age was objectivity – a highly illusive standard for both leaders and the led. In particular, the notion of objectivity deeply affected the emerging mass communications Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-34440249083030481652017-02-05T16:29:00.000+00:002019-08-26T15:47:40.270+01:00It CAN Happen Here: Meet Friendly Fascism“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain" - Trump quoting and retweeting Mussolini, Feb. 28, 2016
Doremus Jessup could see it coming: a day when freedom, constitutional rights and truth itself would be lost in the United States. In Sinclair Lewis' 1936 novel, It Can't Happen Here, the Vermont country editor watches aghast as a Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-68738771496294138072017-01-13T16:57:00.000+00:002017-01-13T16:57:50.746+00:00World Citizen: Garry Davis vs. National Borders
In September 1948, when delegates to the new United Nations met at the
grand Palais de Chailot in Paris, a twenty-something American wearing the flak
jacket of a bomber pilot pitched a tent on the Palais steps. Guards
descended and angrily ordered him to leave, but he politely declined. I’m no longer
in France, the young man explained, eyes twinkling. I’m standing on “international
territory.”
Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9167803301463846799.post-45529964723713518652017-01-06T16:45:00.000+00:002017-01-06T17:04:36.778+00:00MOMENTUM II Launch & Casting the President
(unreleased 2008 poster)
BY EUGENE MICHAEL SCRIBNER
FANTASYWORKS/FIRST LOOK MOMENTUM II
A highly ambitious US Senator (Michelle Pfeiffer), a tough-as-nails ex-warrior (Laurence Fishburne), and a charismatic tech mogul (Armie Hammer) are fighting for the presidential nomination.
That's the premise in Momentum II, a better-than-the-real-thing Greg Gumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780542632200130391noreply@blogger.com1