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Raj Patel: What Do We Really Value?
January 22, 2010Raj Patel has spent a lot of time studying the way resources are distributed among people, and he's watched spiraling inequality leave many people with nothing while concentrating wealth in the hands of the few. From the food system, which he studied in Stuffed and Starved, to the bank bonuses still being handed out, he argues that something has to change.Danny Schechter: Bungled Aid Hurts More than it Helps
January 22, 2010Haitians woke up before we did Wednesday, with 6.1 earthquake-strength aftershocks adding more insult to their ongoing injuries. Those aftershocks were bad, but there’s been a failure, a massive failure, on the part of the Obama administration’s response to the disaster. This is a worse aftershock worth commenting on.Got Docs: We Want What's Ours
January 22, 2010In South Africa during the years of colonialism and apartheid, land was systematically taken from Africans and given to the white minority population. 16 years later, only 5 percent of that land has been redistributed. In this week's Got Docs segment, we look at a film in progress by Bernadette Atuahene, Sifuna Okwethu, which translates to "We Want What's Ours." The film looks at the difficulties of reclaiming stolen land under the continuing neoliberal control. The filmmakers are looking for support to finish the movie, and you can help them out at their website.Cine Institute Haiti: Thibaud UN
January 22, 2010The Ciné Institute continues to send out video from its students and staff in Jacmel, Haiti, despite continuing aftershocks and difficulty getting aid in and out. This is one of their recent reports, taking us inside meetings with local officials and the continuing lack of proper medical care.How Much More Can Haiti Take?
January 21, 2010Another aftershock hit Haiti this morning, this one of magnitude 6.1. The devastation from the original quake is nowhere close to being contained, and sustained hits make it even harder to regain some sort of order in the country.The F Word: Coakley DID Define Herself. More's the Pity.
January 21, 2010Sexism certainly played a part in the way Coakley was treated in the senate race, and in the media. Her cold-fish personal style came in for no end of abuse. But it's sexist, too, to downplay her (barracuda) professional record. Before the President and the Dems take another dive to the right, it's at least worth asking: If the Dems had backed a real live, living-and-breathing progressive in the primaries, might things have turned out different?Can We Scan Ourselves to Safety?
January 21, 2010In the wake of the failed underpants bombing attempt, new airport security rules have been added, and discussion has ramped up of the use of full-body scanners and other invasive technologies. We ask Liliana Segura of AlterNet and Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent if we can scan ourselves to safety, or if this is just more security theater designed to get us to give up our civil liberties.Lessons from Massachusetts
January 21, 2010Scott Brown, a Republican with tea party support, won the special election for the last two years of Ted Kennedy's Senate term last night over Democrat Martha Coakley. Predictably, the blame game has already started, with critiques leveled at everyone from Coakley herself to the President.The F Word: Van Jones’ Resignation Should be a Wake Up Call
January 19, 2010Well, Van Jones has been selected to serve as Green Jobs Adviser to the Obama administration. Jones, the author of The Green Collar Economy, will work within the Council on Environmental Quality. There’s something to be said for getting what you wish for. Back in October, during the height of the presidential campaign, I asked Van Jones if he would serve as director of the EPA in an Obama White House.Year in Review: The Things Veterans Carry
January 2, 2010More than one million soldiers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years. Close to 4,500 have died in Iraq and nearly 20 percent of those who return have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Well over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed.