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Commentary Schechter: On The Seventh Anniversary of the War On Iraq: Spotty Coverage, A Few Protests, and A Desire to "Move On" To Make It All Disappear

Commentary, March, 21 2010 Danny Schechter
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American media loves anniversaries of major events. They become ideal "news pegs" to do follow-up stories. You would think that they would have pulled out the stops for the seventh anniversary of the US war on Iraq, a war that was described by the...

Commentary Schechter: What Are They Waiting for?

Commentary, March, 10 2010 Danny Schechter
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What will it take? What are they waiting for? What part of the reality of a systemic crisis that will get worse don't they get?

Commentary Schechter: It Was 20 Years Ago Today

Commentary, February, 12 2010 Danny Schechter
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It was 20 years ago Thursday February 11th when Nelson Mandela's Liberation Band began to play.

Znet Article Schechter: The Disaster Within The Disaster: Its Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco

Znet Article, January, 20 2010 Danny Schechter
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Haiti remains a death trap, with an aid program that has sat by and watched thousands die without relief. The International Red Cross describes the situation there as a catastrophe while the American Red Cross reports raising more than $100 millio...

Commentary Schechter: Why Is The Haiti Disaster Response So Screwed Up

Commentary, January, 18 2010 Danny Schechter
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Every disaster plan is built to some degree around the idea of triage-deciding who can and cannot be saved. The worst cases are often separated and allowed to perish so that others who are considered more survivable can be treated.

Commentary Schechter: Old Problems Remain In New Year: No, Virginia, The Economy Is Not Getting Better As Banks Still Rule

Commentary, January, 05 2010 Danny Schechter
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It's a new week, a new year, and some, erroneously believe a new decade. What's not new is the stranglehold the banks have on our economy quietly stashing more billions for more bonuses while still restricting the flow of credit. Bad loans have be...

Commentary Schechter: The Decade Is Still With Us: Look To The Future, Not The Past

Commentary, December, 30 2009 Danny Schechter
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Lets drop all the decade hype. I know we tend to structure history in ten year swallows: The 60's, the 70's, the 80's etc. It is all so neat and so clean but, alas, not quite true.

Commentary Schechter: Congo Communique: Obama Denounces Rape But Washington Has Yet To Do Much About It, As War Bleeds Central Africa

Commentary, December, 18 2009 Danny Schechter
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After a week in Kinshasa talking about war in Congo, it was time to see it, or at least visit its epicenter in the East. This is where rape is used as a weapon of war, where rebel groups challenge government forces militarily and occupy territory....

Commentary Schechter: Congo Communique: Patrice, The Martyr, Ali The "Killer" And Tales From Central Africa

Commentary, December, 10 2009 Danny Schechter
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I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone an...

Commentary Schechter: Get Hip, Learn To Fear The Double-Dip---Barack Obama Does!

Commentary, November, 30 2009 Danny Schechter
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Today, the same expression is being used to warn us that the recession we are still struggling with could, and is supposedly posed for recovery could fall even deeper into another dip. That d word seems to be a substitute for another-a depression.

Commentary Schechter: Hedge Fund Perps Walk Free From Criminal Trial

Commentary, November, 25 2009 Danny Schechter
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Danny Schechter Reports On How The Prosecutors Blew The First Big Case

Znet Article Schechter: Will Christmas Shopping Save Us? As “Black Friday” Nears, New Questions About An Economic Recovery That Isn’t

Znet Article, November, 24 2009 Danny Schechter
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Funny how, back in 1929, we had black Thursday and then Black Friday as the market crashed, plunging the country into a depression. Now we have every retailer in every mall in America on their knees praying for a prosperous black Friday this week.

Commentary Schechter: What's The Word In Johannesburg As Financial Crisis Rocks "The Rainbow Nation" Hopes For Progress?

Commentary, November, 11 2009 Danny Schechter
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There was lots of skepticism when I came to South Africa two years ago to show my film IN DEBT WE TRUST. While my critique of consumer debt resonated, the film's forecast of a financial crisis didn't. Their economy seemed to be doing well and it w...

Commentary Schechter: Downrising

Commentary, October, 27 2009 Danny Schechter
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Even as calls for an UPRISING against the practices of the big banks are being made, something else has begun to happen: a DOWNRISING has begun with members of the industry, prominent financial media outlets, and government officials beginning to ...

Commentary Schechter: As The Big Banks Post Record Profits And Pay Out Obscene Bonuses, What Should We The People Do: Stand Up Or Roll Over?

Commentary, October, 21 2009 Danny Schechter
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On February 1, 1960, four students sat down at a lunch counter at the former Woolworth's store in Greensboro North Carolina...

Commentary Schechter: Obama’s Prize Named for the Inventor of Dynamite

Commentary, October, 13 2009 Danny Schechter
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Does anyone among us remember Le Duc Tho? He was the brilliant Vietnamese negotiator at the Paris Peace talks who played Henry Kissinger for the fool he is. Back in l974, on a reporting trip to Hanoi for a Boston radio station, I had the good fort...

Commentary Schechter: A Media Failure Compounds the Financial Failure:

Commentary, October, 10 2009 Danny Schechter
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We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up the markets and reform the financial behemoths, lacks the willingness and perhaps the clout to re...

Commentary Schechter: Russian Tv And Me, Michael Moore, And Using Capitalism To Challenge Capitalism: Oh, The Ironies!

Commentary, October, 05 2009 Danny Schechter
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When the CBS suits shuttered WBCN in Boston, the radio station I used to work for, one more institution that at time was known for offering critical and independent news was snuffed out.

Commentary Schechter: Welcome World to Pittsburgh: Time For More Than Yak at the G20?

Commentary, September, 26 2009 Danny Schechter
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Can Obama Help Forge A Global Consensus for Deep Economic Change?

Commentary Schechter: Has The Economy Been Pulled Back From The Brink? Who Is Recovering?

Commentary, September, 17 2009 Danny Schechter
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President Obama's highly anticipated health care speech started on a totally different subject: The economy.

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