Amy Goodman

Community Organizing Experience v. Executive Experience

Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

As we seek to find ways for our bloodied world to live in peace, we will need people who can build the community of nations.

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FEMA and the Election

Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Al Gore, Gop, Ronald Reagan, Bush 41, September 11, Amy Goodman, Bush 43, Fema, Sarah Palin, James Lee Witt, Laura Flanders, Joe Scarborough, Twin Cities, Jimmy Carter, Ralph Nader, Blinton, Politics News

As the GOP meets in the Twin Cities and hides terrified behind a hurricane, let us remember: In early January 2001, the Federal Emergency Management ...

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RNC Arrests: I Am Shocked and Outraged Over All This Shock and Outrage.

Dan Sweeney | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Amy Goodman, Republican National Convention Arrests, Rnc, RNC Arrests, Republican National Convention, Republican National Convention Protest, Donna Brazile, Politics News

In my own trolling through online political discussion forums, here and elsewhere, over the past few years, a few stereotypical posts have turned into...

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Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested/Released In MN (Update With Press Conference)

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy Now!, First Amendment, Mayor Chris Coleman, Obstruction, Amy Goodman, Journalist, Amy Klobuchar, Republican Convention, Minnesota, Fourth Amendment, Pacifica Network, St. Paul, Constitution, Rnc, Norm Coleman, Tim Pawlenty, Republican National Convention, Arrest, Politics News

Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddo...

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Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC; Reports of Tear-Gassing (UPDATED at 12:00AM EST)

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Amy Goodman, Rnc, Republican Convention, Minnesota, Republican National Convention, Civil Rights, Protesters, Politics News

In addition to preemptive arrests, the police are responding aggressively to the presence of protesters. New video is appearing on YouTube of protesters being tear-gassed by the police.

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DNC: From An Arab Prism

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, Dnc, Democratic Primary, Cnn, Arab Media, Jimmy Carter, Shalom Tv, Amy Goodman, Joe Biden, Israel, Al Jazeera, Wolf Blitzer, Barack Obama, Media News

Several Arab networks dispatched their best anchors to Denver to beam a sliver of American politics to more than 300 million viewers in the region.

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Rick MacArthur's Left-Right Attacks On Obama

John K. Wilson | Posted 08.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Amy Goodman, Rick Macarthur, Richard Daley, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Home News

MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's, reflects a disturbing trend on the left to use Republican smears to destroy a pragmatic progressive like Obama rather than try to contribute to political change in this country.

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Berlin Was Wrong Place for Obama's Wall Speech

Steve Clemons | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Annapolis Peace Conference, John F. Kennedy, Middle East, Berlin, Amy Goodman, Ramallah, Israel, Palestine, Wall Speech, Democracy Now, Barack Obama, Obama Berlin, Barack Obama Israel, Obama Berlin Speech, Obama Israel, Politics News

Obama's speech had high points and deserves applause -- but it's ultimately forgettable because he failed to deliver the most important lines where they most mattered.

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A Call to Heroes: My "Sit-Down" With Vince Bugliosi

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, DemocracyNow!, Vincent Bugliosi, Alan Dershowitz, Attorney General, George W. Bush, Amy Goodman, Elizabeth De La Vega, Juan Gonzalez, Cindy Sheehan, Prosecution, Iraq War, Stephen Rohde, District Attorney, Vanguard Press, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Charles Manson, Vince Bugliosi, Media News

Coming from Vincent Bugliosi, a man who has proven time and again that he has no fear, his threat it one that George Bush should take seriously. Vince will not back down.

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Harball Flirts With Women Voters

Scott Swenson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

If Chris Matthews and the mainstream media want to add something productive to the reproductive rights debate, they should move off the 70's polarization created by the far-right.

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Amy Goodman is Wrong About Food Price Inflation

Max Keiser | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Amy Goodman, Right Wing, Left Wing, Fomc, Inflation, Fiat Currency, Business News

The Left in America needs to beef up on its macro-economics understanding of money and credit before leaping into the fray of discussing global food prices

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The Custody Battle for America

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ron Paul, Bernanke, Obama, Democracy, Amy Goodman, Constitution, Debates, US Economy, Hilary Clinton, Primaries, Recession, ABC News, Politics News

Last week's debate proved something startling about this country as it was like watching Maury Povich and Dr. Phil perform a tag-team divorce in which...

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Those Crazy Liberals!

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Democracy, Dennis Kucinich, Protest, Protesters, Bill Maher, Bill Maher Hecklers, Bill Maher Jay Leno, Politics News

Whoever these Kucinich supporters are, they clearly felt enough desperation to risk embarrassment and jail time in order to reach a mainstream audience about what they perceived as social injustice.

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The Narrative Narrative

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.18.2007 | Media

In the postmodern funhouse that imprisons prestige media, the job isn't to cover events, but rather to reveal their theatricality; the trick isn't to find truth, but to disclose "framing."

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