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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: “Why We Were Falsely Arrested”

Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists.

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September 03, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“Poverty Is the Real Scandal”

Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, but he had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about his signature issue?

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August 28, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“Cheney, Bush and Habbush”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.

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August 21, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“Don’t Cage Dissent”

Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.

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August 14, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“Threats, Lies and Audiotape”

With no end in sight in Afghanistan and Iraq, military recruiters must be prevented from using desperate and aggressive measures to lure our nation’s young people—the poorest and most vulnerable—into the line of fire.

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August 07, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

‘It’s a Global Election’

Amy Goodman reports from the Baltics: “When I arrived in Estonia last week—a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland—everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin.”

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July 30, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“Who’s Paying for the Conventions?”

The nominating conventions have become elaborate, expensive marketing events, but most people don’t know the extent to which major corporations fund them, pouring tens of millions of dollars into a little-known loophole in the campaign-finance system.

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July 24, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid”

While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power.

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July 17, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime”

It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free, but the celebration of her release should not be confused with celebration of the Colombian government.

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July 10, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

“It’s Not the Man, It’s the Movement”

I was on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado this week when Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter asked me, “Is Obama a sellout?” The question isn’t whether he is a sellout or not—it’s about what demands are made by grass-roots social movements of those who would represent them. The question is, who are these candidates responding to, answering to?

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July 03, 2008  |  Filed under Weekly Column

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