The Alternative Press Center

The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.

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Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Weekly Pulse: SCOTUS Nominee Kagan a Cipher on Choice

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

On Monday, President Barack Obama nominated solicitor general Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Kagan’s nomination has raised eyebrows among progressives. Despite a long career in legal academia, Kagan has published very little. She seems to have studiously avoided taking a stand on almost any controversial issue. Ruth Conniff of the Progressive calls the Kagan pick “a triumph of the bland.”

From Haiti to Paris to New York

John Bellamy Foster and Hannah Holleman on the US financial power elite. Eric Hazan on Paris today. Christophe Wargny on Haiti before the earthquake.More

Friday, 12 February 2010

US Foreign Policy under Barack Obama

US voters elected Barack Obama as president to bring change. But what change has there been in US foreign policy? Read Tariq Ali on the Middle East and Central Asia, Greg Grandin on Latin America, Arun Gupta on Haiti.More