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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 ...

Znet Article Goodman: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Znet Article, June, 01 2009 Amy Goodman
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The economy is a shambles, unemployment is soaring, the auto industry is collapsing. But profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian jungle, to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, to the court...

Znet Article Goodman: Yoo's Views Make Philly News

Znet Article, May, 21 2009 Amy Goodman
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, one of that city's two major daily newspapers, is in the news itself these days after hiring controversial former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo as a monthly columnist.

Znet Article Goodman: Baucus’ Raucous Caucus

Znet Article, May, 14 2009 Amy Goodman
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Still absent from the debate are advocates for single-payer, often referred to as the “Canadian-style” health care. Single-payer health care is not “socialized medicine.” According to Physicians for a National Health Program, single-payer ...

Znet Article Goodman: Pete Seeger Carries Us On

Znet Article, May, 07 2009 Amy Goodman
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It was some garden party. Eighteen-thousand people packed into Madison Square Garden Sunday night to celebrate the first 90 years of Pete Seeger’s life.

Znet Article Goodman: Disclosure of "Secrets' in the '70s Didn't Destroy the Nation

Znet Article, April, 29 2009 Amy Goodman
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President Barack Obama promised “more transparent ... more creative” government. His release of the torture memos, and the Pentagon's expected release of more photos of detainee abuse, is a step in the right direction. Yet he assured the CIA t...

Znet Article Goodman: On Anniversary of 1937 Guernica Bombing, Basque Community in Idaho Looks Back

Znet Article, April, 24 2009 Amy Goodman
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Seventy-two years ago this Sunday, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, on April 26th, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica was carpet bombed by Fascist Italian and Nazi German forces. Three-quarters of Guernica was destroyed, and as many as 1,600 ...

Znet Article Goodman: Torturers Should Be Punished

Znet Article, April, 22 2009 Amy Goodman
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According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the OLC under Bush “became a facilitator for illegal government conduct, issuing dozens of memos meant to permit gross violations of domestic and international law.”

Znet Article Goodman: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Znet Article, April, 15 2009 Amy Goodman
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Pacifica Radio, the oldest independent media network in the United States, turns 60 years old this week as a deepening crisis engulfs mainstream media. Journalists are being laid off by the hundreds, even thousands. Venerable newspapers, some more...

Znet Article Goodman: U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege

Znet Article, April, 09 2009 Amy Goodman
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As President Barack Obama made his public appearance with Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Monday as part of his first trip to a Muslim country, U.S. federal agents were preparing to arrest Youssef Megahed in Tampa, Fla. Just three days earlier, ...

Znet Article Goodman: Supreme Court Denies Appeal for Death Row Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Amy Goodman
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The Supreme Court has denied an appeal from the journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. On Monday, the court rejected without comment Abu-Jamal's bid to overturn his conviction for the 1981 killing of a white police officer following ...

Znet Article Goodman: Seattle’s Lessons for London

Znet Article, April, 01 2009 Amy Goodman
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Protests dominate the news as world leaders gather in London for the Group of Twenty meeting. War, the economy, corporate globalization and grass-roots opposition to financial bailouts are at the forefront.

Znet Article Goodman: Lessons of the Exxon Valdez

Znet Article, March, 26 2009 Amy Goodman
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Twenty years ago, the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled at least 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound. The consequences of the spill were epic and continue to this day, impacting the environment and the economy. I...

Znet Article Goodman: Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout

Znet Article, March, 20 2009 Amy Goodman
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Taxpayers’ bailout money for AIG bonuses has rightfully provoked a massive backlash against AIG, Wall Street, President Barack Obama and his economic advisers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers. The U.S. public now owns 80 pe...

Znet Article Chang: Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Znet Article, March, 11 2009 Ha-joon Chang
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I think we are facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Now, it probably wouldn’t get as bad as the Great Depression, because, unlike in the Great Depression, governments are more willing to intervene with deficit spending ...

Znet Article Goodman: Put Single-Payer on the Table

Znet Article, March, 11 2009 Amy Goodman
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President Barack Obama promises health-care reform, but he has taken single-payer health care off the table. Single-payer is the system that removes private insurance companies from the picture; the government pays all the bills, but health-care d...

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