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Michael Winship: Happy Holidays from America's Banks

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Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below.

"Happy Holidays from America's Banks"

By Michael Winship

Never mind Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope. It's the audacity of the banks that takes your breath away. Mean old Mr. Potter in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE seems like Father Christmas by comparison.

A recent report that Citigroup and Goldman Sachs may have received preferential treatment getting doses of the swine flu vaccine...

Pushing a People's Agenda

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This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with several figures who give voice to ordinary Americans and are calling for a new people's movement to bring progressive change to Washington and the nation.

George Goehl, executive director of National People's Action, said:

"I think more and more people are making connections around their own economic insecurity to what's happening with the banks and on Wall Street....

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch

Many people are troubled that Barack Obama flew to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize so soon after escalating the war in Afghanistan. He is now more than doubling the number of troops there when George W. Bush left office.

The irony was not lost on the President, and he tried to address it in his Nobel acceptance speech. "I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land," he said. "Some will kill. Some will be killed. And so I come here with ...

Art & Healing

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In this week's JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with film director Oliver Stone about how his experience fighting in Vietnam has informed his work -- including his famous Vietnam trilogy in PLATOON, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, and HEAVEN & EARTH -- and influenced his worldview. Stone, the recipient of a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, described how filmmaking helped him work out his feelings and move on to the next phase of his life.

Michael Winship: The Afghan Ambush

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Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below.

"The Afghan Ambush"

By Michael Winship

The decision has been made. The months of meetings and briefings are over. Tuesday night, the President made it official: 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan. Along with Friday's announcement of an additional 7,000 from our NATO allies, after all those weeks of debate and consultation, the result's pretty much exactly what our...

Preserving Planet Earth

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This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with famed scientist Jane Goodall, best known for her groundbreaking work with Chimpanzees in Tanzania.

For the past two decades, Goodall has devoted much of her time to environmental advocacy, convincing audiences that saving the wilderness and wild creatures needs to be a priority for all of us, and that individual citizens can make a profound difference. She told Moyers:

Michael Winship: A Jane Goodall Thanksgiving

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Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below.

"A Jane Goodall Thanksgiving"

By Michael Winship

Give thanks. Because this isn't one of those Thanksgiving lists of things for which we should be grateful -- although health, family, friends, laughter, etc., would certainly all be on mine.

And Jane Goodall.

Yes, that Jane Goodall, the woman we all grew up with watching those National Geographic specials on TV as s...

A Tale of Two Quagmires

This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers looked back some four decades to his experience as a member of President Lyndon Johnson's administration. At the time, Johnson made a series of fateful decisions to escalate the war in Vietnam, where eventually over two million American military personnel would serve. Estimates indicate that nearly 60,000 U.S. troops – and more than a million Vietnamese – were killed during the course of the conflict.

With an eye on President Obama's deliberations on...

Michael Winship: New York's Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials

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Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below.

"New York's Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials"

By Michael Winship

If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do.

That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years ago (as opposed to Washington, DC, where I once got one too many tickets and was sent to pedestrian school).

And that's why in the weeks after 9/11, my...

Michael Winship: In a Chilly London November, War and Remembrance

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Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below.

"In a Chilly London November, War and Remembrance"

By Michael Winship

In Great Britain, Remembrance Sunday falls on the second Sunday of November, the one closest to November 11th, the anniversary of the end of the First World War in 1918. Once, the world called November 11th Armistice Day. Now, here in the States at least, it is Veterans Day.

As coincidence and travel...