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Goodman: NYC’s Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser
Znet Article, March, 19 2010
Amy Goodman
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Debbie Almontaser has won a victory in her battle against discrimination. She was the founding principal of the first Arabic-language public school in the United States, until a campaign of hate forced her out. She is well known for her success in...
Goodman: Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Amy Goodman
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An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli milita...
Goodman: Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition?
Znet Article, March, 07 2010
Amy Goodman
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March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world.
Goodman: Following String of Racist Incidents, UC San Diego Students Occupy Chancellor’s Office
Znet Article, March, 03 2010
Amy Goodman
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We go now to California, where crowds of students stormed and occupied the office of a University of California, San Diego chancellor for six hours Friday after a noose was found hanging from a bookcase in the main library. The incident prompted a...
Goodman: Cracking Down on Fracking
Znet Article, February, 25 2010
Amy Goodman
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Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his ...
Goodman: Obama’s Nuclear Option
Znet Article, February, 18 2010
Amy Goodman
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President Barack Obama is going nuclear. He announced the initial $8 billion in loan guarantees for construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. Obama is making good on a campaign pledge, like ...
Goodman: Haiti, Forgive Us
Znet Article, February, 11 2010
Amy Goodman
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The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead, hunger, dehydration, the eme...
Goodman: Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian
Znet Article, February, 06 2010
Amy Goodman
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Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People’s History’ is to go beyond what people have le...
Goodman: Let the Haitians In
Znet Article, January, 29 2010
Amy Goodman
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Jean Montrevil was shackled, imprisoned, about to be sent to Haiti. It was Jan. 6, days before the earthquake that would devastate Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Montrevil came to the U.S. with a green card in 1986 at the age...
Goodman: Tè Tremblé—The Haitian Earth Trembled
Znet Article, January, 21 2010
Amy Goodman
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Tè tremblé is Haitian Creole for “earthquake.†Its literal translation: “The earth trembled.†After the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, the stench of death is everywhere. At General Hospital, bodies had been stacked 4 feet high...
Glover: Legacy of US-Haitian Relations Dating Back to 1804
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
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Legacy of US-Haitian Relations Dating Back to 1804
Goodman: Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes
Znet Article, January, 17 2010
Amy Goodman
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A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in South Africa suing corporations that they say helped the pre-1994 regime. Among the multinational corporations are IBM, Fujitsu, Ford, GM and banki...
Goodman: Sick With Terror
Znet Article, January, 06 2010
Amy Goodman
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The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,†failed in his alleged attack, close to 300 people were spa...
Goodman: Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen
Znet Article, December, 23 2009
Amy Goodman
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Barack Obama said, minutes before racing out of the U.N. climate summit, “We will not be legally bound by anything that took place here today.†These were among his remarks made to his own small White House press corps, excluding the 3,500 cre...
Goodman: Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes
Znet Article, December, 16 2009
Amy Goodman
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Denmark is the home of renowned children’s author Hans Christian Andersen. Copenhagen is dotted with historical spots where Andersen lived and wrote. “The Little Mermaid†was one of his most famous tales, published in 1837, along with “The...
Goodman: Take Me to Your Climate Leader
Znet Article, December, 09 2009
Amy Goodman
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“Politicians talk, leaders act†read the sign outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the opening day of the United Nations climate summit. Inside the convention center, the official delegations from 192 countries, hundreds of NGOs (nongover...
Goodman: Canada's Olympic Crackdown
Znet Article, December, 03 2009
Amy Goodman
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Going to Canada? You may be detained at the border and interrogated. I was, last week. I was heading from Seattle to give a talk at the Vancouver Public Library. My detention provoked outrage across Canada, making national news. It has serious imp...
Goodman: Books, Not Bombs
Znet Article, November, 27 2009
Amy Goodman
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California campuses have been rocked by protests this past week, provoked by massive student fee increases voted on by the University of California Board of Regents. After a year of sequential budget cuts, faculty and staff dismissals and furlough...
Goodman: Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
Znet Article, November, 18 2009
Amy Goodman
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“In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,†says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.â€
Goodman: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Znet Article, November, 12 2009
Amy Goodman
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Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.†The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, f...
Goodman: The Tortured Logic Continues
Znet Article, November, 06 2009
Amy Goodman
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“Extraordinary rendition†is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered†by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
Goodman: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent
Znet Article, October, 29 2009
Amy Goodman
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U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,†according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself. He was just one in what is turning out to be a record year for suicides in ...
Goodman: Trick or Treat for Climate Change
Znet Article, October, 23 2009
Amy Goodman
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Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting “trick or treat,†their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same. This p...
Goodman: Choi Won’t Lie
Znet Article, October, 15 2009
Amy Goodman
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Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,†“I am gay.†Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell†regulations, those three wor...
Goodman: Watch What You Tweet
Znet Article, October, 07 2009
Amy Goodman
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A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home -- all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, c...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
