Posts tagged “alternet”
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Tom Dispatch serializes “9-11: Was There an Alternative?”
September 8, 2011
There has never been any reason to doubt what the FBI believed in mid-2002, but that leaves us far from the proof of guilt required in civilized societies — and whatever the evidence might be, it does not warrant murdering a suspect who could, it seems, have been easily apprehended and brought to trial. Much the same is true of evidence provided since.
Tags: 9-11, 9-11 anniversary, all voices, alternet, asia times, cbs, counter currents, democracy now, digg, history news network, international movement for a just world, naked capitalism, noam chomsky, outlook india, samoa news, santa fe reporter, straight goods exchange, tomdispatch, war in context, was there an alternative
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AlterNet reviews Deep Green Resistance
August 11, 2011
“If you’re firmly in the nonviolence-is-the-answer camp, don’t get scared off (yet), because there is a ton of crucial information in this book. And just because they mention violence doesn’t mean it’s the best policy. You may not want to sign up to lead their underground army, but you should hear them out. Because the planet is being destroyed.” — Tara Lohan at AlterNet
Tags: alternet, aric mcbay, book review, deep green resistance, derrick jensen, environment, lierre keith
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Beverly Gologorsky interviewed at AlterNet
November 20, 2009
From Beverly Gologorsky’s interview with Andy Kroll of AlterNet, on the subject of Things We Do To Make It Home:
Gologorsky: If you take a look at some of the characters in my book like [veterans] Frankie or Rod, they’re not monsters. I like my characters; I like the men. I think they have tremendous potential that was totally messed up by the war. So I had to think this part through. How can some of these men, who’ve done some horrible things, come home and these women love them? I had to really think through what made these men so damaged. And that’s when I came up with that understanding, that they had to kill without believing anymore that they were killing for any cause.
Tags: alternet, beverly gologorsky, fiction, interviews, things we do to make it home
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Daybreak excerpt at AlterNet: How Dick Cheney’s radical acts still threaten the Constitution
September 9, 2009
An excerpt from David Swanson’s best-selling Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, as it appeared today on AlterNet:
. . . Nixon doesn’t even come close. Nixon never kept as much of our government secret as Bush-Cheney did, and when push came to shove, he gave up some of his secrets and left town. Nixon’s former legal counsel John Dean agrees that the Cheney-Bush gang far surpassed Nixonian levels of secrecy and abuse of power. Not to mention lawyerly deviousness. Cheney claimed privileges supposedly belonging to the executive branch when it suited him. For example, he refused to comply with subpoenas because “the president and the vice president are constitutional officers and don’t appear before the Congress.” At other times, Cheney claimed to be part of Congress in order to avoid complying with rules governing the executive branch. Hence the conclusion that if Cheney belonged to any branch it had to be the hitherto unheard of Dick Cheney Branch, which perhaps existed in Cheney’s well-known “undisclosed location.”
Tags: alternet, current events, david swanson, daybreak, excerpts, politics/government
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Fidel Castro to Obama: remove the Cuban blockade
April 15, 2009
From AlterNet:
Cuba has resisted and it will continue to resist; it will never beg for alms. It will go on forward holding its head up high and cooperating with the fraternal peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean; with or without Summits of the Americas; whether or not the president of the United States is Obama, a man or a woman, a black or a white citizen.
Tags: alternet, articles, cuba, elise buchman, fidel, graphic biography, nahuel scherma, nestor kohan
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Howard Zinn interviewed on AlterNet
March 13, 2009
Liliana Segura from Alternet recently spoke to Howard Zinn over the phone about the Voices of a People’s History performances he helped to conceive—and about his belief that the Obama administration will require “demonstrations and protest and letters and petitions” in order to be a true force for change.
Tags: alternet, anthony arnove, Authors, howard zinn, interviews, obama, voices of a people's history
“alternet” Posts
- Sep 8, Tom Dispatch serializes “9-11: Was There an Alternative?”
- Aug 11, AlterNet reviews Deep Green Resistance
- Nov 20, Beverly Gologorsky interviewed at AlterNet
- Sep 9, Daybreak excerpt at AlterNet: How Dick Cheney’s radical acts still threaten the Constitution
- Apr 15, Fidel Castro to Obama: remove the Cuban blockade
