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• 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: 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: 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: 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: Activist foils BLM auction

  December 25, 2008 in Opinion on Page B5 Tim DeChristopher is an economics student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He had just finished his last final exam before winter break. One of the exam … 1