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Van Jones, the man appointed as "green jobs czar" to the White House, previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director. WND previously reported Jones was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader. He was appointed to serve as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to the White House blog, Jones' duties include helping to craft job-generating climate policy and to ensure equal opportunity in the administration's energy proposals. Jones,...

Below Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck explains the Apollo Alliance on his July 28 show. Beck mentions the Obama administration’s “stimulus” blueprint, “The New Apollo Program: Clean Energy, Good Jobs,” which you can read here.

Democratic presidential candidates, progressive political action committees, labor coalitions and filmmakers gathered with more than 3,000 activists in Washington this week for the fifth annual (My added link) Take Back America (TBA) Conference. Next week, activists will attend the first U.S. Social Forum (USSF), an offshoot of the World Social Forum, in Atlanta, Ga. Although the events might appear redundant, or even competitive, they reach different niches in the larger progressive movement -- and their outcomes will determine the degree of cohesion with which the Democratic Party's liberal wing enters the 2008 election season. The two events are not jointly...