faust

I've been rolling an idea around in my head for a few months now about starting a blog devoted to John Ashcroft. My idea would be an Ashcroft centered news/commentary blog with frequent (daily) updates on his doings and every few days post essay type stories, along with regular newsbyte stories (with comments enabled).
I'm thinking of focusing on his fundy agenda, and civil liberties abuses primarily. Also, lest he get vain, I was thinking of having a sort of "Elite members" circle of people in the administration/congress/courts who back his ideas, or come up with similar ridiculous bullshit and I would post stories about them as well.

Do you think this would be interesting? Would you read ashcroftsucks.com? (hehe, yes it's available). Suggestions?
Or should I just not bother with it since people can find out all they want to know on current blogs and google?

Ab_Normal

I already go to Civil Liberties Watch for my daily dose of depression, but, what the heck, I'd read another one.

NonHomogenized

It's a neat idea, and I'd read it at least semi-regularly, but I suspect the esteemed Grand Inquisitor Ashcroft would detain the readers... or at least do something unpleasant to them.

godfry n. glad

...and the dead man wins!

And thus, the voters of the great state of Missouri forced John Ashcroft on the rest of the nation by selecting a dead man over poor li'l Johnny. I guess Missouri voters didn't think he fulfilled the "show me" rule that reputedly applies in Missouri.

Can we ever forgive the Missourians?

oriecat

Sorta like a bushwatch.com for Ashcroft? I like the idea. We need to know what this asshole is up to.

Kintaro

A landoverashcroft.com site would be funny and iomportant.


We need to see how insane his antics in Washington are. I wish to know if I'll be able to enter the U.S. again, pref. without being asked :"Are you a christian?" as a border question.

emphryio

That's a good idea. I wish I could get together with a bunch of people where we all delegate certain areas to write about and compile a site as a result. I'm personally more interested in writing about the various methods by which democracy is subverted. I've identified 6 to 8 methods, each of which a lot of time could individually be devoted to.

One unfortunate thing is all the progressive sites just repeating information and giving maybe one new interesting thing. And there's so many sites it's impossible for the average person to go through them all.

Here's a few sites for information that might help on Ashcroft.
http://www.indymedia.org/
difficult to navigate.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/
More sensationalist than substantive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Pretty good.

http://www.democracynow.org/
Radio show with Amy Goodman thats shown on Pacifica.

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm....php?name=home
TV station capable of reaching 11 million by satelite.

http://www.commondreams.org/
Progressive. Breaking stories taken from mainstream press. Editorials not quite as mainstream.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/
No comment necessary.

http://www.independent.co.uk/
No comment necessary.

http://www.mediachannel.org/
Very so so for a media watch site.

http://www.socialistworker.org/
General stuff

http://www.alternet.org/
OK

http://www.citizenworks.org/
Pretty good stuff on corporations. Following the money.

http://www.flashpoints.net/
Investigative news radio magazine KPFA

http://www.fsrn.org/

http://www.media-alliance.org/

http://www.moveon.org/
Activism organization.

http://www.radioproject.org/

http://www.onlinejournal.com/index.html

http://www.pacifica.org/
Site of largest progressive radio station in US.

http://www.webactive.com./

http://wsws.org/

http://www.yellowtimes.org/

http://www.prospect.org/

Somewhat more long term commentary oriented.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/
Huge site with great stuff on imperialism in all it's guises mainly. Mainly book excerpts.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/In..._magazine.html

http://www.geocities.com/howardzinnf...ine_works.html

http://www.isreview.org/

http://inthesetimes.com/

http://www.indypress.org/

http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

http://www.tompaine.com/

http://mondediplo.com/

http://www.globalexchange.org/

http://www.michaelparenti.org/articles.html
Second to Chomsky, but more radical and better speaker. (More open to attack also.)

http://www.motherjones.com/

http://multinationalmonitor.org/monitor.html

http://www.newint.org/

http://www.newleftreview.net/

http://www.altpress.org/

http://www.thenation.com/
Large progressive magazine. (Well relative to other progressive magazines.) A little watered down.

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles.cfm
The leading leftist.

http://tvnewslies.org/html/distraction.html

http://www.progressive.org/

http://www.populist.com/

http://www.swans.com/main.shtml

http://www.towardfreedom.com/

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/

http://counterpunch.org/
Alexander Cockburn, popular site. Rants quite a bit.

http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
A very large site up there with Third World Traveler except does editorials.

http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/curTOC.htm

http://www.mediareform.net/

http://www.newsforchange.com/

http://www.cbpp.org/

http://solidarity.igc.org/

http://www.indexonline.org/

http://www.medialens.org/
British site that closely follows media. Editorials.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com./

http://www.thetip.org/

http://www.disinfo.com/

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/tenets.htm
Excellent website of Steve Kangas who was found dead outside the office of Richard Mellon Scaife in 99.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml (Great stuff)

http://www.createjustice.org/
Just starting out. Might appreciate help.

http://www.MichaelMoore.com/

http://www.nathannewman.org/log/
A good blog

I'm sure there's plenty more but that might help a bit.

faust

emphryio: wow!

Ok, that kept me busy for awhile. I read many many sites daily but those were many i was unaware of. Thanks tremendously for the resources.

Now, i'm bumping this thread for shameless purposes, I have begun the blog. Now remember i've only been at this for like 2 days (of the actual posting bits.)

Please feel free to post comments, poke things, break things, email me, suggest stories, offer editorial assistance, etc. and most importantly, check back often

http://blog.dithi.com

yes i know there's the bit about the unsigned certs, this is served from behind a cable modem, so i had to use https to get around the problem, i'll fix the cert thing tomorrow.