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Commentary Schechter: Iceberg Ahead: The Big Money That Is Sinking Democracy

Commentary, May, 07 2012 Danny Schechter
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We ignore, to our detriment, that vast iceberg of money, stacked in the billions, that threatens to sink what’s left of our democracy

Commentary Schechter: The Inequality That Ate American Democracy

Commentary, April, 26 2012 Danny Schechter
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We can all expect to lose because economics (and inequality) guides and trumps politics

Commentary Schechter: Are You “Spring Trained” For May Day?

Commentary, April, 23 2012 Danny Schechter
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Can this relatively new movement pull off an ambitious General Strike to shut down a city like New York?

Commentary Schechter: Why Can't The Media Do A Better Job Of Covering Elections?

Commentary, April, 17 2012 Danny Schechter
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Our media coverage plays as intense a role in undermining democracy as the relative handful of wealthy donors who now dominate and finance our politics

Commentary Schechter: Sayonara to Mike Wallace and the News Era He Led

Commentary, April, 10 2012 Danny Schechter
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The values of the market have torpedoed whatever senses of mission most of our media may have once been seen to have

Commentary Schechter: The Final Four Or More?

Commentary, March, 27 2012 Danny Schechter
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Obama has clearly calculated that his hopes for re-election depend on the public perceiving him as a hard-line commander in chief steering us smoothly through a dangerous world

Commentary Schechter: Sweet Home Chicago: G8 Meeting Moved But Protests Will Continue

Commentary, March, 06 2012 Danny Schechter
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The G8 meeting was shifted from contested ground to safe space in the ultra-secure, well-guarded environment of Maryland’s Camp David

Commentary Schechter: Olympia Snow and Andrew Breitbart: Is It The End of An Era?

Commentary, March, 03 2012 Danny Schechter
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There was an eerie synchronicity between the pending resignation of veteran Maine Senator Olympia Snowe and the death of Andrew Breitbart

Commentary Schechter: Memo To POTUS---Eyes Only: From The Department of Pre-War Planning And Threat Exaggeration

Commentary, February, 26 2012 Danny Schechter
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Eyes only: from the department of pre-war planning and threat exaggeration

Commentary Schechter: “We Are Drowning” On A Road To Nowhere: New War on the Horizon

Commentary, February, 20 2012 Danny Schechter
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If there was ever a time for progressives to unite around some coherent ten point plan that can be used to broaden the movement for change, this is it

Commentary Schechter: Special Ops Now Defines The Pentagon’s Expanding Wars

Commentary, February, 15 2012 Danny Schechter
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A commitment to more special forces is a commitment to more imperial intervention, and specialized units operating above the law and beyond the law

Commentary Schechter: Protests Planned In La: What The Hell, L.L? Why Are The Grammys Backtracking On Diversity?

Commentary, February, 11 2012 Danny Schechter
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The Grammy Award's have dropped 31 categories of music, including those that most appeal to minorities

Commentary Schechter: Occupy Wall Street is All Over The Media: But for How Long?

Commentary, November, 29 2011 Danny Schechter
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Occupy Wall Street is not about camping, it’s about crusading for justice

Commentary Schechter: Occupy Wall Street Lives To Fight Another Day

Commentary, October, 15 2011 Danny Schechter
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A rare outbreak of common sense seems to have erupted

Commentary Schechter: Unions Promise Support as #OccupyWallStreet Enters Third Week

Commentary, October, 01 2011 Danny Schechter
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Many in the media wrote off the young people in Egypt, and proved to be as out of touch as much of the American media is today

Commentary Schechter: Defending the Internet and Exposing Symbolic Politics

Commentary, September, 21 2011 Danny Schechter
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Censorship is being sold as a way to promote public safety

Commentary Schechter: Obama Readies Jobs Plan While the Right Plans to Scuttle It in a Country Facing Economic Apocalypse

Commentary, September, 04 2011 Danny Schechter
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The magic wand is being readied in the White House as the President and his minions finally unwrap the mother of all jobs plans

Commentary Schechter: “Monetizing” Electoral Politics: TV Networks Are Out To Sell, Not Tell

Commentary, August, 22 2011 Danny Schechter
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Campaign spending in the 2012 US election could reach $6-$7 billion

Commentary Schechter: As Economy Crumbles, Media Goes into Ritual Politics Mode

Commentary, August, 17 2011 Danny Schechter
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As the nation careens towards a nose dive, its trivia time again on TV

Commentary Schechter: Systems Collapse When the Irrational is Considered Rational

Commentary, August, 11 2011 Danny Schechter
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A closer look, usually in times of crisis, offers a window into another kind of financial world, a world of panic and fear

Commentary Schechter: As the Dog Days of Summer Approach, Politicians Rest Before Returning to the Fray

Commentary, August, 06 2011 Danny Schechter
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the public is mad, but also depressed by the lack of leadership and a sense they can win

Commentary Schechter: The Kabuki Play on Capitol Hill Comes Right Before the Deal

Commentary, July, 31 2011 Danny Schechter
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The Wall Street powercrats are high stakes poker players and this was one game they knew they would win

Commentary Schechter: The Blue Eyes of Terror Challenge the World to Respond

Commentary, July, 26 2011 Danny Schechter
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While Bin Laden castigated crusaders, Breivik salutes them in a 1518 page manifesto of madness

Commentary Schechter: As The World Marks International Mandela Day Mandela’s Legacy Is Debated

Commentary, July, 18 2011 Danny Schechter
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The question is: which Mandela will be memorialized?

Commentary Schechter: Durban South Africa, Friday Night at the Movies

Commentary, July, 15 2011 Danny Schechter
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So here I am in one of the most beautiful corners of the world and yet under the surface, it is seething with conflicts

Commentary Schechter: “Don’t Know Much About History,” South Africa’s Youth Face a Grim Future

Commentary, June, 27 2011 Danny Schechter
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Kids know more abut Mandela than the movement he led, an expression of the celebrity worship that dominates youth culture

Commentary Schechter: Why Are We Banking on Banks To Promote economic Recovery?

Commentary, May, 26 2011 Danny Schechter
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What was missing was any notion of intentionality and premeditation, systemic fraud and CRIME

Commentary Schechter: Strauss-Kahn and The Secret Culture of Aggressive Sexuality

Commentary, May, 21 2011 Danny Schechter
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What needs to be examined is how the crimes of the rich and powerful are treated

Commentary Schechter: Why Facts No Longer Matter in the Media Discourse

Commentary, May, 02 2011 Danny Schechter
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The shame of it is that they know what they are doing, know what the impact of what passes for “coverage” will be, but do it anyway

Commentary Schechter: Why Wall Street Is Winning

Commentary, April, 26 2011 Danny Schechter
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Two years ago as financial reform was put on the U.S. Congressional agenda, a skeptical Senator, Dick Durbin of Illinois, spoke of the power of the banks over the country’s legislative process.

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