Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of The Garden, nominated for an Academy Award and Stuart Sender, one of the film's co-executive producers on why the battle to save a community garden in Los Angeles--the largest in the country--has so much to tell us.

The media's obsession with Republican obstructionism, political satire gone too far? Joe Scarborough's latest screed. Sound like the mainstream media are out of touch with the public?

How many more homes will be lost before the federal government actually does something? After trillions of dollars have been promised to banks, the Obama administration finally unveiled its plan to assist homeowners facing foreclosure. As Maxine Waters reminds us, the housing crisis is in part the product of a system- wide regulatory failure.

How many more homes will be lost before the federal government actually does something? After trillions of dollars have been promised to banks, the Obama adminsitration finally unveiled its plan to assist homeowners facing foreclosure.

Terry Jones, of Monty Python, on why he's becoming an arms manufacturer. The forecast is good he says. Sales are up. And it doesn't look like growth will slow any time soon. Think about it...by the time you finish watching this the United States will have spent an additional one million in Iraq and Afghanistan.

You might have missed it but sometime last week Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner unveiled the Obama administration's latest installment of the bank bailout. The number floated was somewhere close to $2.5 trillion and scattered reports suggested that a laissez faire approach to the banks had won the day. That is, irresponsible, reckless Wall Street financiers i.e.

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms, a new documentary from Sander Francken, explores the world of small weapon’s dealers and how weapons used by the United Nations and NATO in places like Bosnia are “recycled” throughout the developing world, especially Africa. There are no international regulations governing the trade in small arms and, according to Francken, there are some 840,000 small arms circulating around the globe.

President Obama today will announce $50 billion to help homeowners stay in their homes. But many homeowners will eventually owe more than their homes are actually worth. So will you be able to save your home? Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic and Development Project, Paul Leonard of the Center for Responsible Lending and others discuss the foreclosure crisis.

Why Palestine? It’s hard to overstate the significance of Israel/Palestine to global politics. Some say that Barack Obama’s success or failure will be judged on whether a resolution to the conflict is reached during his presidency. For others the issue has deep moral resonance. As an indication of the fault lines in America, Hampshire College’s recent decision to divest from companies that do business with Israel has been both repudiated and

Why Palestine? Alu Abunimah and others on the significance of Hampshire College's decision to divest. Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms a new documentary from Sander Francken. And a commentary from Monty Python's Terry Jones.