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Znet Article Chatterjee: "Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War”

Znet Article, February, 09 2009 Pratap Chatterjee
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New book interivew...

Znet Article Goodman: Facing foreclosure? Don't leave. Squat

Znet Article, February, 05 2009 Amy Goodman
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Marcy Kaptur of Ohio is the longest-serving Democratic congresswoman in U.S. history. Her district, stretching along the shore of Lake Erie from west of Cleveland to Toledo, faces an epidemic of home foreclosures and 11.5 percent unemployment. Tha...

Znet Article Goodman: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Znet Article, January, 28 2009 Amy Goodman
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Karl Rove recently described George W. Bush as a book lover, writing, "There is a myth perpetuated by Bush critics that he would rather burn a book than read one." There will be many histories written about the Bush administration. What will they ...

Znet Article Goodman: A Long Train Ride

Znet Article, January, 22 2009 Amy Goodman
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It started with a train ride. Barack Obama rode to Washington for his presidential inauguration on a whistle-stop tour. "To the children who hear the whistle of the train and dream of a better life - that's who we're fighting for," Obama said alon...

Znet Article Goodman: Nothing to Fear Except No Health Care

Znet Article, January, 15 2009 Amy Goodman
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Fifty million Americans are without health insurance, and 25 million are "underinsured." Millions being laid off will soon be added to those rolls. Medical bills cause more than half of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. Desperate for care, the und...

Znet Article Goodman: Voices of Resistance Sing On

Znet Article, January, 05 2009 Amy Goodman
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Strong voices for peace have left us this year, people who used their art for social change, often at a high personal price.

Znet Article Goodman: Tennessee Landowners File $165M Suit Over Massive Coal Ash Spill

Znet Article, January, 01 2009 Amy Goodman
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Four developers in Tennessee filed a $165 million lawsuit Tuesday against the Tennessee Valley Authority in the wake of last week’s massive spill of over one billion gallons of toxic coal ash next to a coal-burning steam plant. The sludge spille...

Znet Article Goodman: One Mans Bid to Aid the Environment

Znet Article, December, 24 2008 Amy Goodman
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Tim DeChristopher is an economics student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He had just finished his last final exam before winter break. One of the exam questions was: If the oil and gas companies are the only ones who bid on public la...

Znet Article Goodman: Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff

Znet Article, December, 18 2008 Amy Goodman
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The global financial crisis deepens, with more than 10 million in the U.S. out of work, according to the Department of Labor. Unemployment hit 6.7 percent in November. Add the 7.3 million “involuntary part-time workers,” who want to work full ...

Znet Article Goodman: Former U.S. Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Led to More Deaths than 9/11 Attacks

Znet Article, December, 15 2008 Amy Goodman
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Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq two years ago, has written a stunning op-ed in the Washington Post called "I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in ...

Znet Article Goodman: A Tale of Two Nobel Nations

Znet Article, December, 10 2008 Amy Goodman
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The days are short here in Stockholm, which is so far north that winter daylight is limited to about four hours a day. But the city is buzzing with visitors, media and activities, for the Nobel prizes are being given this week. While the Nobels re...

Znet Article Goodman: Chevron in the White House

Znet Article, December, 05 2008 Amy Goodman
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President-elect Barack Obama introduced his principal national-security Cabinet selections to the world Monday and left no doubt that he intends to start his administration on a war footing. Perhaps the least well known among them is retired Marin...

Znet Article Goodman: Tutu, Obama and the Middle East

Znet Article, December, 01 2008 Amy Goodman
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As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Znet Article Goodman: A View From the South

Znet Article, November, 20 2008 Amy Goodman
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Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.

Znet Article Goodman: President Obama Can Redeem the White House

Znet Article, November, 13 2008 Amy Goodman
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Construction of the White House started in 1792, with sandstone quarried by slaves in Aquia, Va., then transported up the Potomac River and hauled into place by slaves...

Znet Article Goodman: Organizer in Chief

Znet Article, November, 07 2008 Amy Goodman
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You could almost hear the world's collective sigh of relief. This year's U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and H...

Znet Article Marable: The Significance of the Nation’s First Elected African American President

Znet Article, November, 06 2008 Manning Marable
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Manning Marable and Cynthia McKinney discuss Obama's win on Democracy Now.

Znet Article Moore: Michael Moore on the Election, the Bailout, Healthcare, and 10 Proposals for the Next President

Znet Article, November, 01 2008 Michael Moore
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Michael Moore has recently published a new book called Mike's Election Guide '08 and a new online film called Slacker Uprising: A Look at the Youth Vote. Michael Moore is best known for his films Sicko, Fahrenheit 911, Bowling for Columbine and Ro...

Znet Article Goodman: Election Protection

Znet Article, October, 31 2008 Amy Goodman
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Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system's integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate wha...

Znet Article Goodman: Change Big Donors Can Believe In

Znet Article, October, 25 2008 Amy Goodman
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Change is at hand. Barring a repeat of the protracted Florida recount of 2000, there will be a victor soon in the U.S. presidential election.

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