RECENT SHOWS
Thursday, May 15, 2008
- Headlines
- As Palestinians Mark 60th Anniversary of Their Dispossession, a Conversation with Palestinian Writer and Doctor Ghada Karmi
- Palestinian Rap Group DAM Use Hip-Hop to Convey the Frustrations, Hopes of a Dispossessed People
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
- Headlines
- 1968, 40 Years Later: Student, Worker Protests Sweep France, Leaving Indelible Mark on the Country and the World
- Legendary Author Gore Vidal on the Bush Presidency, History and the “United States of Amnesia”
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Amy Goodman Launches Weekly Column
Ask your newspaper to carry it!
Amy Goodman has a new nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column which is distributed by King Features. Ask your local newspaper to carry it today! If you’d like to see the column in your paper, call, write a letter, or send an email to the Op-Ed or editorial page editor of your local paper and direct him/her to King Features for more information.
Here’s a sampling of the columns that have appeared in newspapers so far:
Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel”
A veteran of Army intelligence has shed new light on the military’s 2003 shelling of the Palestine Hotel, a Baghdad home to many journalists, including two who were killed by that attack.
More...“The U.S. War on Journalists”
Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the U.S. military for more than six years. His crime: journalism. Targeting journalists, the Bush administration has engaged in direct assault, intimidation, imprisonment and information blackouts to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs. The principal target these past seven years has been Al-Jazeera, the Arabic television network based in Doha, Qatar.
More...“Ticker Tape Ain’t Spaghetti”
Food riots are erupting around the world. Behind the hunger, behind the riots, are so-called free-trade agreements, and the brutal emergency-loan agreements imposed on poor countries by financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund.
More...“The Single-Payer Solution”
As the media coverage of the Democratic presidential race continues to focus on lapel pins and pastors, America is ailing.
More...“The Orangeburg Massacre”
Sen. Barack Obama is clearly a bad bowler. But it was not too long ago that African-Americans were not allowed in some bowling alleys. In Orangeburg, S.C., three young African-American men were killed for protesting against that town’s segregated bowling alley.
More...“A Torture Debate Among Healers”
The American Psychological Association is in the midst of its own heated presidential campaign. The central issue is whether APA members should be banned from participating in “harsh interrogations.”
More...“Where Do We Go From Here?”
It has been 40 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel. King was there to support striking sanitation workers, African-American men who endured horrible working conditions for poverty wages. While King’s staff was opposed to him going, as they were scrambling to organize King’s new initiative, the Poor People’s Campaign, King himself knew that the sanitation workers were at the front lines of fighting poverty.
More...“Body of War”
We just passed the grim milestone of 4,000 U.S. military members killed in Iraq since the invasion five years ago. Still, the death toll climbs. Tomas Young was one of those injured, on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City. Young is the subject of a new feature documentary by legendary TV talk-show host Phil Donahue and filmmaker Ellen Spiro, called “Body of War.”
More...“Winter Soldier Marches Again”
Last weekend, in the lead up to the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a remarkable gathering occurred just outside Washington, D.C., called Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations. Hundreds of veterans of these two wars, along with active-duty soldiers, came together to offer testimony about the horrors of war, including atrocities they witnessed or committed themselves.
More...A Cause Bigger Than Any Scandal
The women of New York had a champion in Eliot Spitzer. The good news in the wake of the governor’s resignation is that his successor, David Paterson, and the state’s activists are ready to keep up the fight.
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