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Should We Stop Caring When the Bombs Stop Dropping?
January 31, 2009The mainstream media would have us believe that the barometer of success in Gaza is dependent on how many Qassam rockets are fired into southern Israel.AIPAC Gets Its Own Checkpoint
January 30, 2009People protested in front of the Marriott Hotel Thursday night in support of the people of Gaza.New President, Same Old Spin
January 30, 2009We may have a new government in Washington, but the press corps hasn't changed. Are the media asking the right questions?The F Word: No Strike is No Detail!
January 30, 2009If the union leadership didn't want to go along with GM's closure of jobs banks and more cuts, it's not clear what they'd do...A New Popular Front
January 30, 2009The youth vote. Popular culture. Art and politics. What role did they play in the Obama campaign and what will a new administration mean for the arts?Bye Partisan Politics?, Janeane Garofalo, and Did Hip Hop Elect Its First President?
January 29, 2009Is there room for Republicans at the table? In what seemed like a busy second week of bipartisan wrangling, an awkward dance between the Obama administration and House Republicans began. Obama’s first victory H.R. 1--the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009--passed in the House, but without a single Republican vote of support. The global gag rule on family planning was revoked, but birth control got yanked from the stimulus bill. So where do we go from here?GRITtv Live at Noon: The Same Spin?
January 29, 2009We may have a new government in Washington, but the press corps hasn't changed. Are the media asking the right questions?Investigating War Crimes
January 29, 2009Can the United States or Israel investigate the very war crimes that they have been accused of commiting? Ret. General James Cullen says that it’s best of the country accused of wrongdoing takes responsibility for its actions. In the event that they don’t international action is the next step. Jones was present when Obama singed the order to close Guantanamo and says that it sends a clear message.Investigating War Crimes, The San Francisco 8, and Geithner's Goldman Connection
January 28, 2009Ret. General James Cullen on investigating war crimes in Gaza and the United States. A legacy of torture at home. And Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's lobbying standards leave a lot to be desired.The F Word: It's not the Lobbying, it's the Agreeing!
January 28, 2009With Geithner, Patterson and Summers/Rubins ruling the roost, it’s not lobbying -- meaning efforts to persuade -- that stand between we the people and change we can believe in. It’s the stultifying level of agreement.
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