, Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and Nancy Giles of CBS News Sunday Morning.
We also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on progressive organizing through media--what works, what doesn't, and where to go from here.
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2009: Best Year in the Worst Decade?
It's the end of 2009. We're still in two wars, Guantanamo is not yet closed, and the jobless numbers are still sky-high. What happened to all the optimism we started the year with? There have been bright spots and not-so-bright spots, nasty political fights and moments of progress.
Time magazine suggested that this decade might've been the worst ever. Hyperbole? Maybe not--the Bush era still gives most progressives nightmares. But was it all that much worse than the decades before--or that much different?
We discuss the year that was and the decade that was with a roundtable of our favorite guests, including Katrina vanden Heuvel ofThe Nation, Mark Green of Air America, Danny Schechter of News Dissector, Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and Nancy Giles of CBS News Sunday Morning.
We also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on progressive organizing through media--what works, what doesn't, and where to go from here.
, Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and Nancy Giles of CBS News Sunday Morning.
We also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on progressive organizing through media--what works, what doesn't, and where to go from here.
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Wow none of the panelist mention the most seminal and perhaps the most problematic occurrence of the decade — Zionism coming to power in the United States. In fact Zionism is very much out of the closet and is pretty much in the face the Americans people.
We now know that the War on Iraq was not for oil and that Bush Administration surrounded itself with advocates from the Project of the New American Century.
The “Left” thoroughly demobilized anti-war movement especially when faction in the movement identified the War on Iraq as furthering Israeli interests. In fact Ms. Flanders recently had Antonia Juhaez (who is closely associated with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute of Policy Studies — foundation funder of Grit TV) on the show who has a history of promoting the “War for Oil” canard.
The Left’s demobilation of the anti-war movement and its failure to back the 2004 Nader candidacy created a huge political vacuum that enabled the opportunity for Obama’s rise. The Left’s contribution to maintaining the status quo is sorely overlooked.
The rise of Zionism in all spheres of the American political economy is the most overlooked story of the decade by so-called alternative media.
By deadbeat on December 24th, 2009 at 2:27 am