, Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and Nancy Giles of CBS News Sunday Morning.
We'll also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on progressive organizing through media. We'll be live right here for a full hour, starting at 12:30 EST. Hope you'll join us!
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The year is almost over, and it's certainly been an eventful one. We've seen a new president, some huge bank bailouts, a dramatic election season and we're closer than we've ever been to national health care reform--whether that's a good thing or not.
It's also about to be 2010 and the end of a decade that Time magazine suggested might've been the worst ever. Hyperbole? We'll discuss the year that was and the decade that was with a roundtable of our favorite guests, including Katrina vanden Heuvel of The 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'll also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on progressive organizing through media. We'll be live right here for a full hour, starting at 12:30 EST. Hope you'll join us!
, Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and Nancy Giles of CBS News Sunday Morning.
We'll also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on progressive organizing through media. We'll be live right here for a full hour, starting at 12:30 EST. Hope you'll join us!
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“It’s also about to be 2010 and the end of a decade”
Isn’t the end of a decade on Dec 31, 2010? Or did the very first decade only have 9 years?
By OldFatGuy on December 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
You are right of course, except that it’s convention. There was no year zero. But of course, millenium celebrations were on 1/1/2000.
By rayy on December 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I don’t see how you could argue that the most recently elapsed decade was worse than the 1930′s, when there was 25% unemployment and Hitler was pillaging Europe and engaging in murder on a massive level.
By rayy on December 23rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
edit.
By bear on December 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Well, the decade was good for some while it was tragic for others. It depends on which side of the gun you’re on. I guess that can be said about any decade.
Yeh, I agree with you Katrina: Obama needs to be pushed. The war is costing tax payers billions while the weapon manufactures absorb those taxes as profits. It’s all about money for those at the top. Our taxes pay for the oil industries’ war while, after the war, if there will be an end to it, they will make huge profits. We pay for “their” war with our taxes and with the lives of our young people. When it’s all done, they will sell us the oil they got at our expense. And this is why the people of the Middle East hate us; they understand that it is all about the question: “Who is going to control the natural resources of this region?” The West has controlled it ever since oil was discovered in the area: by CIA tactics, military might, and nuclear threat by placing missals in Israel and Turkey.
And why is Iran considered so evil? Would their nationalized oil industry, which seems to be working, have anything to do with it? If the oil industry and weapon industries were nationalized here, there would be plenty of money for the services the government should provide along with putting an end to taxes. Of course that would mean an end to the huge billion dollar profits going to a select few. If tax payers pay for the war and the weapons, taxpayers should receive the profits from that war—not the oil and the weapon industries! If we want peace in the Middle East or anywhere else, we need a foreign policy which seeks to help the common people—not one which seeks to exploit the common people or “their” resources.
Let’s change the 1st Amendment changing the word religion to corporation: Congressmen shall receive no funds respecting an established “corporation” in order to empower and impose their will over against the common people. “Corporations” shall not be allowed to control or monopolize the free press, so that their prosperity is promoted against the good of the common people!
By gordsd on December 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Well, this old computer someone gave me (trying to avoid adding to the demand for more slave-dug cassiterite) doesn’t want to play this video. I caught some of it. Guess I’ll have to go to Grit TV and read the transcript.
By jackbuddha on December 23rd, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Oil was not the primary reason for The War on Iraq. The war was pushed by the influential Zionists within the Bush Administration. You had an administration infested with the supporters and architects of the Project For The New American Century. They as well as AIPAC and the entire Israel Lobby was in favor of the destruction of Iraq as it would favor Israel increasing hegemony in the Middle East. In fact the War on Iraq was decidedly against U.S. interest.
The sad thing is that the “Left” deliberately demobilized the anti-war movement and failed to support the ’04 campaign of Ralph Nader which created a huge political vacuum filled by Obama and the Democrats. The “Left” sold the American people the false “War for Oil” mantra that has now proven to be a canard. The “Left” has itself to blame for failing to challenge Zionism and aided its growing influence within U.S. institutions and the political economy.
By deadbeat on December 24th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Wow, that is a story left out of the media! I read your comment under the other thread as well. I think it is difficult, however, to figure out where or when values, religion, or economics drive brutal foreign policy. I think some socialist once said, “It’s not values that drive societies; it’s economics.” Sometimes I think (sometimes subconsciously) people find their justification for oppression or genocide in foggy prophecy which is to support their pseudo-choseness. And you’re right; just look at our history: the idea of “manifest destiny” pretty much justified the genocide of the Native American and the enslavement of African Americans. Now the Zionist are justifying the same treatment of the Palestinians and Muslims. Anyway, I don’t know if it begins in the religion or if it begins with greed looking for justification in religion. But I do think the oil mungers want Iraq’s oil, and they want to be able to put that pipe-line through Afghanistan, so why not have a psuedo God and freedom on their side?!?!
By gordsd on December 25th, 2009 at 8:22 am