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GRITtv Live at Noon: Howard Dean on Healthcare

khorsani — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:00:02 +0000

GRITtv Live at Noon: Howard Dean on Healthcare

Laura on the Ed Show: Where are the Arab Views?

khorsani — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:17:43 +0000

George W.'s former special assistant, Ron Christie, and Politico's Jonathan Martin team up on the defensive while GRITtv host Flanders queries which resonates louder in the Muslim World: Obama's speech in Cairo or continued silence on the Israeli government's blockade and bombing of Gaza, and the suicide of another hunger striker in Guantanamo? Also where are the Muslims in all this discussion of the President's speech to the Muslim World? Another clip from this week's Ed Show on MSNBC. Like The Ed Show? Let MSNBC know.

Laura Flanders on The Ed Show, May 13, 2009

khorsani — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:13:08 +0000

Laura was on The Ed Show a few weeks ago and we received a few requests to make the clip available online, so here it is.

Got Docs: Out In The Silence

khorsani — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:49:24 +0000

It's popular on the right wing radio dial to pretend that homosexuality is something happening in San Francisco and other big city enclaves, but this week's Got Doc is about the love, and hate, of small towns. When filmmaker Joe Wilson announced that he was going to marry another man, his small Pennsylvania hometown erupted. But beneath the controversy, a mother reached out to him about help with her teenage son coming out of the closet. A film is coming out of this experience, "Out In The Silence", and the early buzz is overwhelmingly positive. We'd love to share a little more with you so check it out.

The F Word: Origin of News Agencies

khorsani — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:47:38 +0000

A story from Galeano. The Origin of News Agencies Napoleon was crushed by the British at the Battle of Waterloo, south of Brussels. Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, took credit for the victory, but the true winner was the banker Nathan Rothschild, who did not fire a shot and was far from the scene. Rothschild was the commander in chief of a platoon of carrier pigeons. Quick and well trained, they brought him the news inLondon. Before anyone else, he knew that Napoleon had lost, but he spread word that the French victory had been overwhelming, and he fooled the market by selling off everything British: bonds, stocks, pounds. Before you could say amen, everyone followed the lead of the man who always knew what he was doing. The assets of the nation they believed had been defeated got sold off as junk. Then Rothschild bought. He bought everything for nothing. Thus was England victorious on the battlefield and vanquished on the stock exchange. The banker Rothschild multiplied his fortune twenty times over and became the richest man in the world. Several years later, toward the middle of the nineteenth century, the first international news agencies were born: Havas, now called France Presse, Reuters, Associated Press… They all used carrier pigeons.