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Schechter: HooHa: Finally, A Few Bankers Face Criminal Prosecutions For Conspiracies

Commentary, December, 24 2012 Danny Schechter
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Most of the coverage does not link all these financial crimes to the larger effect and impact they have had on the world

Schechter: At The Russell Tribunal on Palestine In New York

Commentary, October, 08 2012 Danny Schechter
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The needs and concerns of the Palestinian people are not in the news much in the United States even though the issues have been around for decades

Schechter: Is Iran Trying To Tell Us Something We Won’t Hear?

Commentary, October, 02 2012 Danny Schechter
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There are clearly initiatives underway to build bridges, but so far, media outlets, eager to fan the flames of confrontation and polarization, have ignored them

Schechter: When Is A Terrorist Not A Terrorist?

Commentary, September, 24 2012 Danny Schechter
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Question: When is a terrorist a terrorist? Answer: When the US government says so

Schechter: Is It Time For an “October Surprise?

Commentary, September, 19 2012 Danny Schechter
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Obama may need a conflict to win over independents

Schechter: Can the War Israel Wants With Iran Be Averted?

Commentary, August, 28 2012 Danny Schechter
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For more than a year now, the drums of war emanating from Israel have become louder and louder

Schechter: South Africa: A Throwback To The Past, A Shock For The Future

Commentary, August, 22 2012 Danny Schechter
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Police killed 34 striking miners at a platinum mine in South Africa

Schechter: Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Extortion Against Standard Chartered Bank Shows Bias Against Iran

Commentary, August, 20 2012 Danny Schechter
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The fact that the money was allegedly tied to Iran cast a major shadow on the allegations, given the Islamic Republic’s “bad guy” image in American policy circles

Schechter: The Games Of Summer: From Playing Fields To Battle Fields

Commentary, August, 13 2012 Danny Schechter
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The only people who would dismiss the idea of a broad political dialogue are those who are determined to overthrow the Syrian government

Schechter: The Ignorance of “Intelligence”

Commentary, July, 31 2012 Danny Schechter
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The system is manned by ideologists and choked with ideology, constantly leading to so-called intelligence ‘failures’ that fill many library shelves

Schechter: The Politics of Collapse: When The Center Will Not Hold, Things Fall Apart

Commentary, July, 25 2012 Danny Schechter
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Deep internal conflicts have destabilized the system even as new forces and protest movements emerge to challenge it

Schechter: The Obama Defection: Former Supporters Lambaste the President

Commentary, July, 03 2012 Danny Schechter
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Obama is under fire from his own supporters for failures and perceived betrayals linked in large part to his foreign policy

Schechter: South Africa’s Political Wars Begin To Resemble Our Own

Commentary, June, 26 2012 Danny Schechter
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Racial division was only one of many economic and social problems all impervious to quick fixes

Schechter: Just What We Don’t Need Now: Hollywoods’s New Hostage Thriller Glamorizes The Cia In Iran

Commentary, June, 20 2012 Danny Schechter
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Once again, mindlessness leads to malice in a search not for truth but box office revenues

Schechter: Beyond Citizens United: Politics Is an Industry, Not Just A Campaign

Commentary, June, 04 2012 Danny Schechter
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Politics is now a growing industry with money and politics more joined at the hip than ever

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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