Alexander Goldman
agoldmanster@gmail.com
Alex Goldman has been a technology journalist for the past nine years, running ISP-Planet, the ISPCON conference, and writing for other sites and speaking at other conferences as well. He is currently Senior Editor at InternetNews.com. Before joining internet.com, he edited encyclopedias in New York and instruction manuals in Tokyo.
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The new FCC chairman is making all the right promises. Can he fulfill them?
ASK THIS | July 08, 2009
Julius Genachowski, with connections to Obama and prior experience at the FCC, says he will promote universal, affordable, open broadband. To do that and to fulfill other promises, he first will have to take the agency out of the grip of the telecommunications firms it is supposed to regulate. Press coverage here isn’t just desirable, it’s vital. 
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An opinion poll double take: On first blush, a McClatchy/Ipsos poll shows only a minority in favor of health care reform – but that’s because many in the survey want stronger measures than Obama is seeking. 
David Cay Johnston examines how a 1986 tax favor for IBM led a Texas man to crash his plane into an IRS office building 24 years later. He sees an early warning sign of deep trouble in America, rooted in Congress's abuse of its power to tax.
Nick Turse answers questions about his recent finding that there are nearly 400 U.S. and coalition military bases in Afghanistan, what that says about our occupation and our military strategy, and the indirect and direct costs to the American taxpayers. It's a big story most Americans know nothing about.
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Ask an American audience what it knows about Britain’s’ “Chilcott Inquiry” and chances are you will draw blank looks. That’s too bad. Americans ought to be intently interested in the Chilcott inquiry, named for its chairman, senior civil servant Sir John Chilcott, because it’s likely to provide the only authoritative account they will have into [...] 
When the world simply does not make sense — or maybe even worse, when it does — who you gonna turn to?
One of my better refuges is George Orwell, and here is why:
Orwell’s “passion for liberty and intellectual honesty” is at least an opener.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft offered that epitaph for Orwell in a New York [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If national security is your No. 1 concern, shouldn’t you want to repeal the policy that prevents gay Americans from openly serving in the military? A Charlotte, N.C., gay rights group asked that question of Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) last Friday, a day after her town hall here on the danger the [...]
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Afghanistan explained
Dexter Filkins offers a lucid account of Afghanistan since the Americans came and the obstacles now looming.
(The New Republic)
A Saudi influence on Murdoch
A Saudi prince now owns a 7 percent stake in the News Corp. He is the largest shareholder outside the Murdoch family, and is said to be gaining influence at Fox News.
(Center for Media and Democracy)
Raquel Rutledge wins Worth Bingham Prize
Rutledge, a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter, exposed how lax oversight of a $350 million taxpayer-subsidized child care program resulted in massive fraud. In the course of her investigation, she helped uncover $20 million in suspicious payments to child care providers as well as criminal activity connected to the system that repeatedly put children in danger.
(Nieman Foundation)
Dangerous caregivers missing from federal database
Numerous disciplinary records appear to be missing from a federal database. Indiana, for example, didn't report hundreds of disciplinary actions in 2004 and 2005 – including nearly 100 nurses who were indefinitely barred from caring for patients. In one case, a nurse had put a knife to a co-worker's throat.
(Pro Publica)
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