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Znet Article Goodman: Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

Znet Article, October, 01 2009 Amy Goodman
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A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role that libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human knowledge to global Internet search giant Go...

Znet Article Goodman: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Znet Article, September, 23 2009 Amy Goodman
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Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Zelaya appeared there unexpectedly Monday morning, announcing his presence in Tegucigalpa, the capital, from wi...

Znet Article Goodman: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Znet Article, September, 17 2009 Amy Goodman
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On Sept. 14, 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives considered House Joint Resolution 64, “To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.” The wounds of ...

Znet Article Goodman: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Znet Article, September, 09 2009 Amy Goodman
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Glenn Beck was mad. He’s the right-wing talk radio host who has a television program on the Fox News Channel. Advertisers were fleeing his Fox program en masse after the civil rights group Color of Change mounted a campaign urging advertisers to...

Znet Article Goodman: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Znet Article, September, 03 2009 Amy Goodman
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On Sept. 1, the European Union stopped manufacturing and importing incandescent light bulbs. Europeans will now turn to the much more efficient compact fluorescent, halogen and LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs. Incandescents, critics argue, waste ...

Znet Article Goodman: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Znet Article, August, 26 2009 Amy Goodman
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It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. ...

Znet Article Goodman: Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’

Znet Article, August, 20 2009 Amy Goodman
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Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed a federal court in Georgia to consider, for the first time in a formal court proceeding, significant evidenc...

Znet Article Goodman: Troy Davis and the Meaning of 'Actual Innocence'

Znet Article, August, 20 2009 Amy Goodman
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Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed a federal court in Georgia to consider, for the first time in a formal court proceeding, significant evidenc...

Znet Article Goodman: Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

Znet Article, August, 13 2009 Amy Goodman
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Imagine the scene. America 2009. Eighteen thousand people have died in one year, an average of almost 50 a day. Who's taking them out? What's killing them?

Znet Article Goodman: A Coup for Lobbyists

Znet Article, August, 07 2009 Amy Goodman
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Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in the middle of the night just over a month ago, enjoys global support for his return, with the exception of the Obama White House.

Znet Article Goodman: Zelaya Speaks

Znet Article, July, 30 2009 Amy Goodman
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AMY GOODMAN: Governments around the world should continue sanctions against the coup regime in Honduras. Those are the comments of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who’s trying to mediate negotiations between oust...

Znet Article Goodman: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Znet Article, July, 29 2009 Amy Goodman
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Anti-war activists in Olympia, Wash., have exposed Army spying and infiltration of their groups, as well as intelligence gathering by the Air Force, the federal Capitol Police and the Coast Guard.

Znet Article Goodman: Amy Goodman Interviews Cornell West, Carl Dix

Znet Article, July, 29 2009 Amy Goodman
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AMY GOODMAN: In Massachusetts, Cambridge police say they're dropping the disorderly conduct charge against the leading African American scholar, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Professor Gates was arrested in his home Thursday after he ha...

Znet Article Goodman: Racism Today

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 Amy Goodman
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W.E.B. Du Bois' classic 1903 work "The Souls of Black Folk" opens with "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." Du Bois helped form the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which ju...

Znet Article Goodman: Two Standards of Detention

Znet Article, July, 14 2009 Amy Goodman
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Scott Roeder, the anti-abortion zealot charged with killing Dr. George Tiller, has been busy. He called the Associated Press from the Sedgwick County Jail in Kansas, saying, “I know there are many other similar events planned around the country ...

Znet Article Goodman: Undo the Coup

Znet Article, July, 01 2009 Amy Goodman
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The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. Honduran soldiers roused democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from his bed and flew him into exile in Costa Rica. The coup, led b...

Znet Article Goodman: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Znet Article, June, 24 2009 Amy Goodman
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Tools of mass communication that were once the province of governments and corporations now fit in your pocket. Cell phones can capture video and send it wirelessly to the Internet. People can send eyewitness accounts, photos and videos, with a fe...

Znet Article Goodman: Congre$$, Heal Thyself

Znet Article, June, 18 2009 Amy Goodman
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As the Obama administration pushes for a vote on health care reform before Congress recesses in August, has health industry money too thoroughly polluted the process for anything good to come of it?

Znet Article Goodman: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives

Znet Article, June, 12 2009 Amy Goodman
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Ken Saro-Wiwa and Alberto Pizango never met, but they are united by a passion for the preservation of their people and their land, and by the fervor with which they were targeted by their respective governments. Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Niger...

Znet Article Goodman: Dr. George Tiller Didn’t Have to Die

Znet Article, June, 06 2009 Amy Goodman
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George Tiller did not have to die. He was assassinated while in church in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, targeted for legally performing abortions. His death might have been prevented simply through enforcement of existing laws. His alleged killer was ...

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