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Znet Article Guma: System Failure: Cyber Threats & Corporate Denial

Znet Article, February, 23 2013 Greg Guma
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The prevailing logic is that businesses should handle their own security. Yet their experts readily admit that they wouldn’t know what to do if an attack came from another nation

Znet Article Guma: Armed and Dangerous: The Gun Debate

Znet Article, January, 26 2013 Greg Guma
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A well-regulated militia is an altruistic idea, certainly preferable to the military-industrial complex. But almost 300 million guns in private hands is – pardon the expression – overkill

Znet Article Guma: Vermont Pols Push to End Corporate Personhood

Znet Article, December, 06 2011 Greg Guma
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"We need to abolish corporate personhood and destroy the fiction that money is speech"

Znet Article Guma: How Vermont Was Born

Znet Article, February, 04 2011 Greg Guma
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An excerpt from Vermont’s Untold History...

Znet Article Guma: What Makes Bernie Speak?

Znet Article, December, 12 2010 Greg Guma
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Listening to Senator Bernie Sanders “mini-filibuster” on December 10 it was easy to compare the moment to Jimmy Stewart’s last stand in Frank Capra’s Mister Smith Goes to Washington.

Znet Article Guma: Obama Myths & Realities

Znet Article, May, 15 2010 Greg Guma
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It was a fairy tale premise: Once upon a time a charismatic prince appeared magically and gave an inspiring, instantly famous speech. Four years later he was leading the most powerful kingdom in the world from the brink of disaster.

Znet Article Guma: Allawi’s Mean Streak

Znet Article, April, 18 2010 Greg Guma
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Those in the US who consider the current president a dictator might want to consider how a real “strongman” operates. To do so, they need go no further than the “fragile” democracy installed in Iraq since the US invasion and take a good look at Ay...

Znet Article Guma: MLK’s Death & Other Uncomfortable Truths

Znet Article, April, 02 2010 Greg Guma
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Forty two-years ago, on April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of a Memphis motel as he prepared to support striking Black sanitation workers there. Although James Earl Ray initially confessed to the crime – he later recan...

Znet Article Guma: The Urge to Secede: A Rebellion in Progress

Znet Article, February, 20 2010 Greg Guma
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At least 16 secession organizations are currently organizing throughout the United States and almost a dozen states have active movements. Even more state legislatures are debating laws that could “nullify” federal actions in areas from gun contro...

Znet Article Guma: Media and Democracy in the Post-Modern Age

Znet Article, February, 16 2010 Greg Guma
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In the Watergate era, journalists were often seen as heroes. Even commercial TV and radio news outlets, although on the way to becoming showcases for infotainment, were considered by many to be potential parts of the solution. By the end of the 20...

Znet Article Guma: The Peru Shoot Down

Znet Article, October, 28 2009 Greg Guma
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Among the five cases of intelligence operation cover up currently being investigated by the US House Intelligence Committee is the 2001 shoot down of a small plane in Peru, resulting in the death of a Baptist missionary from Michigan and her 7-mon...

Znet Article Guma: The Presidency Problem: High Crimes

Znet Article, September, 28 2009 Greg Guma
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If staging coups, waging secret wars, suspending civil liberties, or torturing people were merely aberrations pursued by a handful of zealots, Congress could simply punish the offenders and get back to "business as usual." But the obvious, and yet...

Znet Article Guma: The Oily Road to 9/11

Znet Article, September, 11 2009 Greg Guma
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As troops and planes headed toward Afghanistan in October 2001, few people questioned the reasons for military engagement. But the causes of war are rarely simple and, as time has passed, other powerful motives have come into focus.

Znet Article Guma: Real Life on Planet Pacifica

Znet Article, May, 27 2009 Greg Guma
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When Pacifica Radio’s national board met in person during my time as the network’s Executive Director, it was normally an all-weekend affair. Actually more than a weekend: Managers and staff started arriving Wednesday for a full-day, staff-onl...

Znet Article Guma: Vermont and the Progressive Paradox

Znet Article, March, 06 2009 Greg Guma
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On March 3, 2009 voters in Burlington chose a mayor. Incumbent Bob Kiss, the third progressive to hold office over the last 28 years, defeated Democratic, Republican, Green and Independent challengers. To put the election into perspective, this es...

Znet Article Guma: Vermont’s Chance: Breaking the Two-Party Monopoly

Znet Article, October, 20 2008 Greg Guma
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Barack Obama is expected to win Vermont in the presidential race by as much as 30 points. But the real surprise is the race for governor. At first, three-term Republican incumbent Jim Douglas looked like a shoo-in. But something unusual is happeni...

Znet Article Guma: Palin’s Problem with Facts

Znet Article, October, 06 2008 Greg Guma
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We’re clearly in an era when facts have less value. Although many people blame the Bush administration, the irresponsibility of some media outlets has also played a part. Yet, when Sarah Palin debated Joe Biden last week she was promoting – perhap...

Znet Article Guma: The Palin Factor

Znet Article, September, 03 2008 Greg Guma
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She’s a rapidly rising star, even – dare it be uttered – an instant celebrity who is firing up the Republican base. Yet little was known about John McCain’s surprise choice for Vice President, Sarah Palin, until a few days ago. And what has been l...

Znet Article Guma: Breaking Out of the Empire Box

Znet Article, August, 20 2008 Greg Guma
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Three days after the 2008 presidential election, no matter which political party takes the White House, a convention will be held in Vermont’s Statehouse to consider more radical solutions to the problems facing the nation. The organizing group is...

Znet Article Guma: The Afghan Trap & Déjà vu in Georgia

Znet Article, August, 12 2008 Greg Guma
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The US government has persistently claimed that its decision to bankroll the overthrow of Afghanistan's government in the final days of the 1970s was a response to the invasion of Soviet troops. But Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's ...

Znet Article Guma: Barack Obama: The New Jimmy Carter

Znet Article, July, 27 2008 Greg Guma
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Since Barack Obama emerged as the Democrat’s choice for president, the national mood has frequently been compared to the late 1960s, another time when an unpopular war polarized the nation. A recent ad for Republican candidate John McCain makes th...

Znet Article Guma: Nonviolent Action & the Road to Independence

Znet Article, July, 01 2008 Greg Guma
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Each year, as fireworks celebrate the Declaration of Independence and people discuss how the United States began, the spotlight normally turns to “revolutionary” leaders and the “armed struggle” waged more than two centuries ago. But as usual, the...

Znet Article Guma: Burlington Debates Dropping Al Jazeera

Znet Article, June, 01 2008 Greg Guma
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Al Jazeera English was added to the Burlington Telecom line up in December 2006, shortly after the channel started airing...

Znet Article Guma: Citizen Nader: From Prophet to Punch Line

Znet Article, May, 26 2008 Greg Guma
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When Ralph Nader announced his fourth bid for the US presidency on NBC in February 2004, shortly after Howard Dean’s insurgent Democratic campaign imploded, he described his goal as building a “second front” in the fight to defeat George W. Bush. ...

Znet Article Guma: Momentum: A Presidential Blockbuster

Znet Article, May, 20 2008 Greg Guma
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Presidents have frequently been the focus of films and, to a lesser extent, TV serials. In recent years, however, the race to become “the decider” has become the theme for big and small screen storytelling. On the tube, the plots have mainly been ...

Znet Article Guma: Who Really “Broke” Iraq

Znet Article, March, 31 2008 Greg Guma
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US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s statement this week on Iraq – "What we didn't know was how truly broken the society was” – is truly remarkable for its attempt to erase history. Still attempting to avoid responsibility, Rice blames the curr...

Znet Article Guma: Imagining Pacifica's Future

Znet Article, June, 08 2006 Greg Guma
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The following are excerpts from a report delivered to the Pacifica National Board by Executive Director Greg Guma on June 3, 2006 at a session held in New York: I’d like to begin by asking you to imagine the Pacifica radio network a few ye...

Znet Article Guma: Pacifica Remarks

Znet Article, April, 22 2006 Greg Guma
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It’s good to be with media makers who don’t believe that climate change is just a rumor, don’t think immigrants coming to the U.S. for a better life should be turned into criminals, and didn’t need over three years ...

Znet Article Guma: Compelling Vermont To Revisit The Death Penalty

Znet Article, June, 10 2005 Greg Guma
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BURLINGTON, VT – Without a vote, a hearing, or even a dog and pony show, Vermont has been pulled back into deciding between life and death for a criminal defendant. Jury selection is underway in the murder trial of Donald Fell, who is accu...

Znet Article Guma: Dave Dellinger: The Life of a Nonviolent Warrior

Znet Article, May, 26 2004 Greg Guma
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Dave Dellinger’s journey began in Wakefield, Massachussetts, a suburb of Boston. His dad was a well-connected Republican lawyer and a friend of the state’s gove...

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