, Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York, and Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.
Parenti, along with director Ian Olds, made a film about one indirect victim of US policy in Afghanistan: Ajmal Naqshbandi, a "fixer" who helped Parenti in his reporting in the country. Naqshbandi was kidnapped along with an Italian journalist; she was released, he was not. Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi follows Parenti when he returns to Afghanistan to tell Naqshbandi's story, and we feature it here.
Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill notes that the war in Afghanistan is "hemorrhaging" into Pakistan. In his latest bombshell story on the private security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, published Monday at TheNation.com, Scahill details Blackwater's covert activities, which are unaccountable to Congress in way that even CIA activities are not. He joined Laura in the studio to talk about the way the war is creeping across borders and continues to involve unaccountable private contractors.
Finally, in a bit of economic policy blowback, the pattern of subcontracting work over and over until the original company can claim they have nothing to do with the work that gets done isn't limited to the military and it doesn't just happen overseas. In Illinois, not far from where the Republic Windows & Doors employees staged their successful factory occupation, warehouse workers for a subcontractor of Bissell, the vacuum cleaner manufacturer, are being fired and threatened after voting to form a union. Monica Sanchez, an employee at the warehouse, joins us along with Abraham Mwaura of Warehouse Workers for Justice and Mark Brenner of Labor Notes to tell the workers' side of the story.
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Blowback, Jeremy Scahill, and Bissell Workers
President Obama is expected to announce that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan next week. In the wake of that decision, discussion of the consequences of United States intervention around the world becomes even more important. It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world.
Today on GRITtv, we look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror, Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York, and Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.
Parenti, along with director Ian Olds, made a film about one indirect victim of US policy in Afghanistan: Ajmal Naqshbandi, a "fixer" who helped Parenti in his reporting in the country. Naqshbandi was kidnapped along with an Italian journalist; she was released, he was not. Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi follows Parenti when he returns to Afghanistan to tell Naqshbandi's story, and we feature it here.
Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill notes that the war in Afghanistan is "hemorrhaging" into Pakistan. In his latest bombshell story on the private security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, published Monday at TheNation.com, Scahill details Blackwater's covert activities, which are unaccountable to Congress in way that even CIA activities are not. He joined Laura in the studio to talk about the way the war is creeping across borders and continues to involve unaccountable private contractors.
Finally, in a bit of economic policy blowback, the pattern of subcontracting work over and over until the original company can claim they have nothing to do with the work that gets done isn't limited to the military and it doesn't just happen overseas. In Illinois, not far from where the Republic Windows & Doors employees staged their successful factory occupation, warehouse workers for a subcontractor of Bissell, the vacuum cleaner manufacturer, are being fired and threatened after voting to form a union. Monica Sanchez, an employee at the warehouse, joins us along with Abraham Mwaura of Warehouse Workers for Justice and Mark Brenner of Labor Notes to tell the workers' side of the story.
, Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York, and Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.
Parenti, along with director Ian Olds, made a film about one indirect victim of US policy in Afghanistan: Ajmal Naqshbandi, a "fixer" who helped Parenti in his reporting in the country. Naqshbandi was kidnapped along with an Italian journalist; she was released, he was not. Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi follows Parenti when he returns to Afghanistan to tell Naqshbandi's story, and we feature it here.
Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill notes that the war in Afghanistan is "hemorrhaging" into Pakistan. In his latest bombshell story on the private security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, published Monday at TheNation.com, Scahill details Blackwater's covert activities, which are unaccountable to Congress in way that even CIA activities are not. He joined Laura in the studio to talk about the way the war is creeping across borders and continues to involve unaccountable private contractors.
Finally, in a bit of economic policy blowback, the pattern of subcontracting work over and over until the original company can claim they have nothing to do with the work that gets done isn't limited to the military and it doesn't just happen overseas. In Illinois, not far from where the Republic Windows & Doors employees staged their successful factory occupation, warehouse workers for a subcontractor of Bissell, the vacuum cleaner manufacturer, are being fired and threatened after voting to form a union. Monica Sanchez, an employee at the warehouse, joins us along with Abraham Mwaura of Warehouse Workers for Justice and Mark Brenner of Labor Notes to tell the workers' side of the story.
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