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Goodman: The Party Police

Znet Article, September, 16 2008 Amy Goodman
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The Democratic and Republican national conventions have passed, but controversy surrounds how they were funded and how they were run. Mass arrests of peaceful protesters, excessive police violence, wholesale disregard for the Bill of Rights and th...

Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested

Znet Article, September, 04 2008 Amy Goodman
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Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists. I was arrested with my two colleagues, “Democracy Now!...

Goodman: Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest

Znet Article, September, 02 2008 Amy Goodman
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More than 280 people were arrested here in St. Paul on Monday, the opening day of the Republican National Convention. Among them were several journalists covering the protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now! I was detained ...

Goodman: "Free Gaza” Boats Set Sail from Cyprus to Break Israeli Blockade

Znet Article, August, 22 2008 Amy Goodman
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Two converted fishing boats set sail from Cyprus today carrying forty-one activists and humanitarian workers who are part of the Free Gaza movement that is trying to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip...

Goodman: Don't Cage Dissent

Znet Article, August, 15 2008 Amy Goodman
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The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties t...

Goodman: Threats, Lies and Audiotape

Znet Article, August, 07 2008 Amy Goodman
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It was like an action movie. A young man held at night in a hotel, threatened with prison. He is to be shipped off to war in the morning. His friends desperately trying to find him. The “down” button on the elevator had been disabled. He considere...

Goodman: Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime

Znet Article, July, 12 2008 Amy Goodman
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It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free. She was the Green Party candidate running for president of Colombia against Alvaro Uribe in 2002 when she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) just days after appealing t...

Goodman: Weather reports are missing the story

Znet Article, June, 20 2008 Amy Goodman
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The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States. As the floodwaters head south along the Mississippi, ...

Goodman: This Way to Better Media

Znet Article, June, 13 2008 Amy Goodman
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“This way to better media,” read the floor sign directing people through a skyway to the Minneapolis Convention Center. Thousands of people gathered there for the fourth National Conference for Media Reform, hosted by freepress.net. They came from...

Goodman: Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage

Znet Article, May, 30 2008 Amy Goodman
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“Utah” Phillips died this week at the age of 73. He was a musician, labor organizer, peace activist and co-founder of his local homeless shelter. He also was an archivist, a historian and a traveler, playing guitar and singing almost forgotten son...

Goodman: Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race

Znet Article, May, 25 2008 Amy Goodman
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As the U.S. presidential race continues, so does the arms race worldwide. People — civilians, children — are being killed and maimed, on a daily basis, by unexploded cluster bombs and land mines. Thousands of nuclear missiles remain at hair-trigge...

Cusack: Why the War in Iraq Is Stranger Than Fiction

Znet Article, May, 24 2008 John Cusack
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John Cusack's new film War, Inc., takes on issues few in Hollywood today would dare to: war profiteering, mercenaries, political corruption and embedded journalism. A political satire, the film stars Cusack as Hauser, a hit-man for hire who is dep...

Goodman: Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel

Znet Article, May, 16 2008 Amy Goodman
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More than five years have passed since the invasion of Iraq, since President Bush stood under the “Mission Accomplished” banner on that aircraft carrier. While these fifth anniversaries got some notice, another did not: the shelling of the Palesti...

Goodman: The US War on Journalists

Znet Article, May, 09 2008 Amy Goodman
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Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the U.S. military for more than six years. His crime: journalism.

Goodman: Ticker Tape Ain’t Spaghetti

Znet Article, May, 01 2008 Amy Goodman
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Food riots are erupting around the world. Protests have occurred in Egypt, Cameroon, the Philippines, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. Sarata Guisse, a Senegalese demonstrator, told Reuters: “We are holding this demonstration bec...

Goodman: What A Fearless Journalist Looks Like

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Amy Goodman
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After writing a dozen books, winning the Pulitzer Prize, having a play produced on Broadway, winning the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the George Polk Career Award and the presidential National ...

Goodman: The Single-Payer Solution

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Amy Goodman
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As the media coverage of the Democratic presidential race continues to focus on lapel pins and pastors, America is ailing. As I travel around the country, I find people are angry and motivated. Like Dr. Rocky White, a physician from a conservative...

Goodman: What Would Jesus Buy?

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Amy Goodman
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"Black Friday” is the name retailers have given to the day after Thanksgiving in their attempt to make Christmas synonymous with shopping. On Black Friday, Americans are expected to flock to the malls and shopping centers, eager for discounts, arm...

Goodman: Have They No Shame?

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Amy Goodman
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Every Saturday, the president of the United States gives a radio address to the nation. It is followed by the Democratic response, usually given by a senator or representative. This past Saturday the Democrats chose retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanche...

Goodman: The Orangeburg Massacre

Znet Article, April, 20 2008 Amy Goodman
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The media this week recognize the one-year anniversary of the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech, in which a lone, disturbed gunman killed 30 students and faculty members...

Des chenes: Maoist Rebels Win Majority in Nepalese Assembly

Znet Article, April, 16 2008 Mary Des chenes
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Maoist rebels in Nepal say an end to monarchy is near, following their surprise victory in last week’s national elections...

Goodman: A Torture Debate Among Healers

Znet Article, April, 11 2008 Amy Goodman
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Frustrated with the American Psychological Association (APA), a New York psychoanalyst, Dr. Steven Reisner, has thrown his hat into the ring...

Rosen: “Iraq Has Really Become Somalia…A Collection of Different Militias”—Back from Baghdad, Journalist Nir Rosen Paints a Picture of a Broken Iraq

Znet Article, April, 02 2008 Nir Rosen
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More than 450 people were reportedly killed since Iraqi forces launched an offensive against Sadr’s Mahdi Army late last month...

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