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Zusatztext “If you’re of the opinion that the big events and pivotal moments we’ve been seeing over the last decade or two is overblown or easily dismissed! read this book and see how the salient details of the American political and cultural landscape have unfolded in the Internet Age. Likely Democracy Now! was covering it. This work will inform and enlighten you.”— Pittsburgh Post Gazette Informationen zum Autor Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! An acclaimed international journalist! she has won the Right Livelihood Award! widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize; a lifetime achievement award from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism; the George Polk Award; Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting; and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Amy is the New York Times bestselling author! with Denis Moynihan! of The Silenced Majority and Breaking the Sound Barrier ; and with David Goodman! of Democracy Now! ! Exception to the Rulers! Static! and Standing Up to the Madness . She is a syndicated columnist for King Features. David Goodman is an independent journalist! contributing writer for Mother Jones ! host of the radio show! The Vermont Conversation! and the bestselling author of ten books. The author of Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africa ! and Democracy Now! (with Amy Goodman)! his work has also appeared in The Washington Post! The New York Times! Los Angeles Times! Outside! The Christian Science Monitor! The Boston Globe! The Nation! and numerous other publications. He lives in Vermont. Denis Moynihan has worked with Democracy Now! since 2000. He is a bestselling author and a syndicated columnist with King Features. He lives in Colorado! where he founded community radio station KFFR 88.3 FM in the town of Winter Park. Democracy Now! CHAPTER 1 THE WAR AND PEACE REPORT As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask—and rightly so—what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. —From “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1967 The United States is engaged in what can only be called endless war. The war in Afghanistan is the longest in US history. The invasion and occupation of Iraq, launched in 2003 based on lies that are far too often described politely as “faulty intelligence,” killed hundreds of thousands of people, if not over a million, and displaced many millions more. Despite the US troop withdrawal in 2011, Iraq is still consumed by violence, which has spilled over to further inflame the massively destructive Syrian civil war. Elsewhere, US special forces wage clandestine operations in the dark of night, killing and kidnapping. Guantánamo Bay’s notorious prison complex exists outside the reach of courts, the press, or any sense of due process, as men arbitrarily swept off the dusty roads of distant countries and held without charge continue to engage in hunger strikes to protest their imprisonment. The coverage of war is critical to our mission at Democracy Now! Our first broadcast was on M...
