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In their new book, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan provide a vivid record of the events, conflicts, and social movements shaping our society today. They give voice to ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power across the country and around the world. Their writing and daily work at the grassroots public TV/radio news hour Democracy Now!, carried on more than a thousand stations globally and at democracynow.org, casts in stark relief the stories of the silenced majority. These stories are set against the backdrop of the mainstream media’s abject failure, with its small circle of pundits who know so little about so much, attempting to explain the world to us and getting it so wrong.
“Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power. She does it every day.”
—Susan Sarandon
“Crusading journalism at its best.”
—Arianna Huffington
“A towering progressive freedom fighter in the media and the world.”
—Cornel West
“What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit.”
—Arundhati Roy
Amy Goodman is a multiple New York Times bestselling author, and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now!, a daily, independent news program airing on more than 800 television and radio stations. TIME Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press.
Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media."
Denis Moynihan, since helping co-found Democracy Now! as an independent production company in 2002, he has participated in the organization’s growth, focusing primarily on distribution, infrastructure development, and coordinating complex live broadcasts from all continents (save Antarctica). He lives in Denver, and is the founder of a new noncommercial, community radio station in Colorado’s high country.
Acknowledgments XII
Foreword Michael Moore XIII
Introduction: Occupy the Media XV
Obama's Wars: A Tragedy in Three Acts Act I: The Wars Abroad 1
Let Us Not Become the Evil'We Deplore 2
The Tortured Logic Continues 4
The Obscenity of War 6
Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives 8
September 11: A Day Without War 10
Torture in Iraq Continues, Unabated 12
War Should Be an Election Issue 14
Guantánamo at Ten: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor 16
The Afghan War's Nine Lives 18
Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War 20
Act II: The War on Veterans and Soldiers 23
Memorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, Stop the Wars 24
Veterans Say No to NATO 25
The War Condolences Obama Hasn't Sent 28
"The Comeback Kid" and the Kids Who Won't 30
Accomplish the Mission: Bring the Troops Home 32
Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences 34
Lt. Choi Won't Lie for His Country 36
Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi? 38
Act III: The War on the Public Treasury 41
We Can't Afford War 42
Deficit Doves 44
The Battle of the Budgets: New Fronts in the Afghan and Iraq Wars 46
War Is a Racket 48
War, Debt, and the President 50
Money in Politics 53
Big Money Clouds the Big Skies of Montana 54
It's One Person, One Vote, Not One Percent, One Vote 56
The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind TV Political Ads 58
Republicans Divided, Citizens United 60
Climate Change 63
New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks 64
Trick or Treat for Climate Change 65
Take Me to Your Climate Leader 68
Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire's New Clothes 70
Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen 72
Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change 74
News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You 76
A Little Missed Sunshine 78
Cancún, Climate Change and WikiLeaks 80
Renewed Energy for Renewable Energy 82
Weiner's No Longfellow 84
Cry, the Beloved Climate 86
Listen to the People, Not the Polluters 88
Climate Apartheid 90
The Long, Hot March of Climate Change 93
Climate Change: "This Is Just the Beginning" 95
Dirty Energy 97
Obama's Nuclear Option 98
Cracking Down on Fracking 100
Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal 102
BP: Billionaire Polluter 104
In Memory of All That Is Lost 106
If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil 108
A Warning to the World 110
Japan's Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking 112
From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan's Atomic Tragedies 114
D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake 116
Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden 118
The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout 120
Race, Racism, and the Myth of Post-Racial America 123
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Troy Anthony Davis, and the Twenty-First-Century Color Line 124
Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck 125
Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes 127
Boycotting Arizona's Racism 129
Alleged Chicago Torturer's Overdue Day in Court 131
Mosque-lssippi Burning 133
NYC's Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser 135
From Tuskegee to Guatemala via Nuremberg 137
A Tale of Two Sheriffs 139
Tucson, Juarez, and an Assault Weapons Ban 142
If You Can't Beat Them, Enjoin Them (From Voting) 144
Walking While Black: The Killing of Trayvon Martin 146
Black in White Plains: The Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain 148
Capital Punishment: The Machinery of Death 151
Troy Davis and the Meaning of "Actual Innocence" 152
Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering with the Machinery of Death 153
Capital Punishment: One of America's Worst Crimes 156
Troy Davis and the Politics of Death 158
Troy Davis and the Machinery of Death 160
Wikileaks and the Crackdown on Dissent 163
WikiLeaks, War Crimes, and the Pinochet Principle 164
Bradley Manning and the Fog of War 166
Watch What You Tweet 168
Books, Not Bombs 170
Canada's Olympic Crackdown 172
Collateral Murder in Iraq 174
WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary 176
FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent 178
WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. "Diplomacy" 180
"Assangination": From Character Assassination to the Real Thing 182
President Obama's Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comcast and Verizon) 184
Tony Kushner and the Angels of Dissent 186
Andrew Breitbart's "Electronic Brownshirts" 188
WikiLeaks, Wimbledon, and War 190
San Francisco Bay Area's BART Pulls a Mubarak 192
WikiLeaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue the Truth, Not Its Messenger 194
Obama's Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups 197
The NSA Is Watching You 199
Uprisings: From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street 201
The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain (Folk) 202
Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening 204
Egypt's Youth Will Not Be Silenced 206
Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest 208
Barack Obama Must Speak Out on Bahrain Bloodshed 210
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative 212
99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street 214
A New Bush Era or a Push Era? 215
The Arc of the Moral Universe, from Memphis to Wall Street 217
Globalizing Dissent, from Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza 219
Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent 222
The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street 224
Pulling Accounts from the Unaccountable 226
The SOPA Blackout Protest Makes History 228
America's Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out 230
A Movement Built by Dreamers 232
When Corporations Rule 235
Who Is Obama Playing Ball With? 236
When Banks Are the Robbers 237
When Corporations Choose Despots over Democracy 239
Policing the Prophets of Wall Street 241
Obama's Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victims 244
Romney's 1% Nation Under God 246
New Obama Campaign Co-Chair: "The President Is Wrong" 248
Coal, Foreclosures, and Bank of America's "Extraordinary Event" 250
Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Eat Humble Pie 252
Undoing the Coups, from Haiti to Honduras 255
President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action 256
Tè Tremblé-The Haitian Earth Trembled 258
Let the Haitians In 260
Haiti, Forgive Us 262
Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake 264
Aristide's Return to Haiti: A Long Night's Journey into Day 266
Hope and Resistance in Honduras 268
More News from the Unreported World 271
Obama in the Company of Killers 272
Failed War on Drugs: Fast, Furious, and Fueled by the U.S. 274
Forget Fear of Flying, Fear Airport Screening 276
Obama's Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena 278
Sick with Terror 280
Single-Payer Health Care: Vermont's Gentle Revolution 282
Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition? 283
Rich Media, Poor Democracy 285
Don't Ice Out Public Media 287
Luminaries 291
John Lewis: Across That Bridge, Again 292
The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz 294
The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus 296
Howard Zinn: The People's Historian 298
Rachel Corrie's (Posthumous) Day in Court 300
Singing Lena Home's Praises 302
Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave, and Beautiful 304
The Health Insurance Industry's Vendetta Against Michael Moore 306
John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors 308
Sundance and the Art of Democracy 310
9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal's Message 312
Stop the Violence 315
Sikh Killings: On Gun Laws, It's Bipartisan Consensus, Not Gridlock, That's the Problem 316
The Obama Administration Torpedoes the Arms Trade Treaty 318
Aurora Massacre: U.S. Gun Laws': Guilty by Reason of Insanity 320
75 Years Later, the Lessons of Guernica 322
Index 324
About the Authors 329
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Posted January 20, 2013
I checked this book out from the public library and enjoyed it so much I am planning on purchasing it.
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Overview
In their new book, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan provide a vivid record of the events, conflicts, and social movements shaping our society today. They give voice to ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power across the country and around the world. Their writing and daily work at the grassroots public TV/radio news hour Democracy Now!, carried on more than a thousand stations globally and at democracynow.org, casts in stark relief the stories of the silenced majority. These stories are set ...