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• ‘Don’t ask’ stakes are high

  August 6, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 “As we mark the end of America’s combat mission in Iraq,” President Barack Obama said this week, “a grateful America must pay tribute to all who served there.” He should … 1

• Amy Goodman: Budget needs deficit doves

  July 23, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 Getting out of the red is the new black. Deficit hawks have swooped down on the U.S. budget. This week, they attacked unemployment benefits. Ultimately, they are going after Social … 1

• Amy Goodman: Time for an information spill

  July 9, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 “Deep Spill 2” sounds like a sequel to a Hollywood thriller. Unfortunately, it is more of a reality show. “Deep Spill 2” is the name of an ambitious series of …

• Amy Goodman: War needs cutoff, not PR

  July 2, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 “General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts,” began the MoveOn.org attack ad against Gen. David Petraeus back in 2007, after he had delivered a report … 1

• Amy Goodman: Forum reflects new Detroit

  June 25, 2010 in Opinion on Page A17 DETROIT – “I have a dream.” Ask anyone where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first proclaimed those words, and the response will most likely be at the March on …

• Amy Goodman: Torture tests neighborliness

  June 18, 2010 in City on Page A17 Federal authorities are investigating whether officials of the government south of the border participated in a citizen’s kidnapping and torture – Canadian authorities, that is, investigating the possible role of …

• Amy Goodman: Anger in the Gulf growing

  June 4, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 NEW ORLEANS – The anger is palpable across the Mississippi Delta. As the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser, almost a mile underwater, continues unabated, the brunt of this, the largest environmental … 1

• Amy Goodman: War teaches cruel lessons

  May 28, 2010 in Opinion on Page A17 Abu Ghraib has nothing over Chicago. Forty years ago, Jon Burge returned from Vietnam, joined the Chicago Police Department and allegedly began torturing people. He rose in the ranks to … 5

• Amy Goodman: Horne had pioneering voice

  May 14, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 Lena Horne died this week at the age of 92. More than just a brilliant singer and actress, she was a pioneering civil-rights activist, breaking racial barriers for generations of …

• Amy Goodman: Big profits, bigger problems

  May 7, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 Less than a week after British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and unleashing what could be the worst industrial environmental disaster … 7

• Amy Goodman: Arizona law provokes backlash

  April 30, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 Arizona was the only territory west of Texas to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War. A century later, it fought recognition of the Martin …

• Amy Goodman: Attack issue from grass roots

  April 23, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 COCHABAMBA, Bolivia – Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El … 1

• Amy Goodman: Obama’s war defies wisdom

  April 2, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 President Barack Obama has just returned from his first trip as commander in chief to Afghanistan. The U.S.-led invasion and occupation of that country is now in its ninth year, …

• Amy Goodman: Water without transparency

  February 26, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury …

• Debt relief a start for Haiti

  February 12, 2010 in Opinion on Page A19 The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, … 1

• Zinn was a voice for civil rights

  February 5, 2010 in Opinion on Page A17 Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at age 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, … 1

• Amy Goodman: It shouldn’t take a disaster

  January 29, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 Jean Montrevil was shackled, imprisoned, about to be sent to Haiti. It was Jan. 6, days before the earthquake that would devastate Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. …

• Amy Goodman: Health care urgency lacking

  January 8, 2010 in Opinion on Page A17 The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,” failed … 3

• Amy Goodman: Climate justice isn’t charity

  December 18, 2009 in Opinion on Page A21 COPENHAGEN – Denmark is the home of renowned children’s author Hans Christian Andersen. Copenhagen is dotted with historical spots where Andersen lived and wrote. “The Little Mermaid” was one of … 5

• Amy Goodman: Grass roots asking for action

  December 11, 2009 in Opinion on Page A17 COPENHAGEN, Denmark – “Politicians talk, leaders act” read the sign outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the opening day of the United Nations climate summit. Inside the convention center, … 1

• Amy Goodman: Canada becomes border bully

  December 4, 2009 in Opinion on Page A19 Going to Canada? You may be detained at the border and interrogated. I was, last week. I was heading from Seattle to give a talk at the Vancouver Public Library. … 2

• Amy Goodman: Pay for education, not war

  November 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 California campuses have been rocked by protests this past week, provoked by massive student fee increases voted on by the University of California Board of Regents. Following a year of … 1

• Amy Goodman: Hunger numbers intolerable

  November 20, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 “In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 …

• Amy Goodman: ‘Oz’ lyricist’s message lives

  November 13, 2009 in Opinion on Page A19 Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.” The 70-year-old film classic bears … 1

• Amy Goodman: To stem suicides, end wars

  October 30, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself. He was just one …

• Amy Goodman: Climate change is no trick

  October 23, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting “trick or treat,” their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change … 4

• Amy Goodman: Military owes gays equality

  October 16, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” … 4

• Amy Goodman: Tweeter’s arrest disturbing

  October 9, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home – all … 1

• Amy Goodman: Case crucial to future of books

  October 2, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, …

• Amy Goodman: Preserve power of the people

  September 4, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 On Sept. 1, the European Union stopped manufacturing and importing incandescent light bulbs. Europeans will now turn to the much more efficient compact fluorescent, halogen and LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs. …

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