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Goodman: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling
Znet Article, March, 05 2009
Amy Goodman
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U.S. policy in Afghanistan includes a troop surge, already under way, and continued bombing in Pakistan using unmanned drones. Escalating civilian deaths are a certainty. The United Nations estimates that more than 2,100 civilians died in 2008, a ...
Goodman: Toxins ’R’ Us
Znet Article, February, 26 2009
Amy Goodman
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Is your lipstick laden with lead? Is your baby's bottle toxic? The American Chemistry Council assures us that "we make the products that help keep you safe and healthy." But U.S. consumers are actually exposed to a vast array of harmful chemicals ...
Goodman: Jailing Kids for Cash
Znet Article, February, 18 2009
Amy Goodman
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As many as 5,000 children in Pennsylvania have been found guilty, and up to 2,000 of them jailed, by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities that benefited. The two judges pleaded guilty ...
Goodman: Talking, rather than fighting, in Afghanistan
Znet Article, February, 14 2009
Amy Goodman
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President Obama held his first prime-time news conference Tuesday night. When questioned on Afghanistan, he replied, "This is going to be a big challenge."
Chatterjee: "Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes Warâ€
Znet Article, February, 09 2009
Pratap Chatterjee
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New book interivew...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
Rosen: Back from Afghanistan, journalist Nir Rosen says Taliban takeover looks "irreversible"
Znet Article, October, 19 2008
Nir Rosen
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Investigative journalist Nir Rosen has just returned from Afghanistan, where he was with the Taliban, traveled far from capital city of Kabul, "Afghanistan's version of the Green Zone." He doesn't think the U.S. or NATO forces are winning in Afgha...
Goodman: Mickey Mouse won't try to vote
Znet Article, October, 16 2008
Amy Goodman
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The 2008 presidential election may see the highest participation in U.S. history...
Goodman: Open the Debates
Znet Article, October, 10 2008
Amy Goodman
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The reviews are in, and the latest U.S. presidential debate, the “town hall” from Nashville, Tenn., was a snore. One problem is that in a debate it is important for the debaters to actually disagree. Yet Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain substant...
Goodman: Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
Amy Goodman
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A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be un...
Goodman: Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision
Znet Article, September, 25 2008
Amy Goodman
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Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. Two hours before the state of Georgia was to execute him, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay until Monday. It had earlier agreed to hear Davis’ case on Sept. 29, but Georgia se...
Goodman: Wall Street Socialists
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Amy Goodman
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The financial crisis gripping the U.S. has the largest banks and insurance companies begging for massive government bailouts. The banking, investment, finance and insurance industries, long the foes of taxation, now need money from working-class t...
