Private "Security" Companies Offer Their Services in Haiti
Institute Fellow and best-selling author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books) asserts that if the Haitians don't want mercenaries in their country, companies such as Haiti Security should not be there.
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Obama's Secret Prison
By Anand Gopal
Gopal interviews 24 former detainees in Afghanistan who have been subject to abduction during night raids, torture, no legal rights and often no explanation for why they were captured in the first place. "Black jails," the use of dogs, stress positions and secret prisons—they all exist in Obama's Afghanistan and Afghans now fear them more than the dreaded aerial assaults that routinely kill civilians. More |
Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou, and Civil Strife in Haiti
Rediscover this 2005 title by Kathie Klarreich, which takes us on an enthralling, often deeply personal voyage through Haitian society, culture, religion and politics. Risking life and limb, being mistaken for a CIA agent, losing the man she loved to an assassin's bullet—through all this, Klarreich soldiered on in her tenacious reporting. Her unsparing eye led major news organizations to rely on her expertise. Now, she reports from Haiti for Jim Lehrer's Newshour. More
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Review of Working in the Shadows (TIME)
TIME magazine reviews Gabriel Thompson's Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do, and tells readers to read the book. "His goal was not to survive on his income, which he quickly realized was nearly impossible even at the lowest standard of living, but to remain at each job for two full months, no matter how bad the back pain, how sickening the smell of raw meat or how crippling the fatigue."
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Posted FEB 08 10
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By Katha Pollitt (The Nation)
The Institute Fellow takes on the recent CBS controversy over the Pam Tebow, anti-abortion ad by Focus on the Family. When confronted, CBS claimed to have changed their no advocacy ads policy, yet also rejected an ad from Mancrunch, a gay dating website. More
Posted FEB 04 10
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By Jeremy Scahill (The Nation)
Three U.S. special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon. More
Posted FEB 04 10
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Interview with Robert McChesney and John Nichols (Democracy Now!)
The Nation Books authors discuss their newest book with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, The Death and Life of American Journalism. McChesney and Nichols argue that journalism should be seen as a public good and that the government should help save American journalism by granting more subsidies to newspapers and media outlets. More
Posted FEB 04 10
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Interview with Gabriel Thompson (MSNBC)
How did you do it, how long did you do it, how did you get those jobs? asked Joe Scarborough of the Nation Books author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do. Thompson discussed skinning poultry and working the graveyard shift, doing America's most unwanted jobs. More
Posted FEB 03 10
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By Gary Younge (Tehran Times)
"The world cannot yet find $1bn in debt relief for Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, a country that spent more in 2008 servicing its debt than it did on health, education and the environment combined and that has now been flattened. But, over a weekend, a single country could rustle up $85bn to keep a single company [AIG] in business. It is an obscene reminder that, in the world of global capital, distressed assets are still more valued than distressed people." More
Posted FEB 03 10
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Interview with Jeff Biggers (Earthbeat Radio)
"Clean Coal" has been the rallying call of the coal industry in America, but as Nation Books author and activist Jeff Biggers explains to Earthbeat host Daphne Wysham, it's actually a strategy that the dirty industry has used throughout history to push back on any types of restrictions on coal mining. More
Posted FEB 02 10
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Review of Reckong at Eagle Creek (The Asheville Citizen-Times)
"Jeff Biggers' third published book, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, is in ways his most important one to date, for he shows that his calling coincides with what he'd returned to in 1998: his home place." More
Posted JAN 31 10
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Interview with Gabriel Thompson (The Indypendent)
The newspaper interviews Nation Books author Gabriel Thompson about his book, Working in the Shadows. They discuss how Thompson survived the year, physically, anti-immigrant claims versus his personal experiences, the terrible working conditions and more. More
Posted JAN 29 10
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By Antonino D'Ambrosio (Guardian)
Nation Books author D'Ambrosio pens a moving tribute to people's historian Howard Zinn, who had a heart attack on January 27. "Zinn dedicated himself to the fight against forgetting and the struggle to honor history by telling the truth." More
Posted JAN 28 10
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Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation.
"John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Thomas Paine and Paul Revere of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril." —Bill Moyers
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February 4 - 13 | Across the United States
Welcome To The Saudi Arabia of Coal, written and performed by The Coal Free Future Project. Four award-winning American artists come together to create a performance that will inform and inspire action around a simple but basic truth in our lives: It’s time to envision a coal free future and work toward clean energy independence. A multimedia presentation featuring the music of Ben Sollee.
February 16
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McChesney and Nichols at the National Press Club
(Washington, D.C.)
Listen to Nation Books authors Robert McChesney and John Nichols discuss their new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on February 16 at 7 p.m.
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February 17
| 7 pm
The Death and Life of American Journalism
(Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C.)
Listen to Nation Books authors Robert McChesney and John Nichols discuss their new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism at the Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. on February 17 at 7 p.m.
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February 25
| 7 pm
Robert McChesney and John Nichols in Milwaukee
(Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI)
Listen to Nation Books authors Robert McChesney and John Nichols discuss their new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism at the Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, WI.
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March 4
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Robert McChesney and John Nichols in Chicago
(57th Street Books, Chicago, IL)
Listen to Nation Books authors Robert McChesney and John Nichols discuss their new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism at 57th Street Books in Chicago, IL.
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