Showing posts with label GRITtv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GRITtv. Show all posts

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Changing The Jobs Debate with Dean Baker & John Nichols



The Nation's John Nichols , author of "Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy" calls the unemployment crisis a "social, economic and political threat," writing of the growing sense of urgency within an administration facing a purported recovery that hasn't extended to everyday people. Around the country, decaying manufacturing towns and communities are suffering in ways that are hidden by the statistics, and a rising GDP doesn't do much for Main Street. Economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of "Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy" wrote:...>>>>> {or at Blip TV}


In all this time of collapsing, and bailing out those who caused it as well as their economics of the expanded reaganomic ideology, there has been Extremely Little to None private capital being reinvested to grow the economy! We were sold the idea that that's exactly what we would get, constant flow of investment from the top trickling down to bring economic stability. It was the Extreme Con some stated it would be, and we're still collapsing only slower!!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Women Among Warlords

GRITtv with Laura Flanders » EVENT: WOMEN AMONG WARLORDS: Rebuilding Afghanistan

We hear a lot about women in Afghanistan, but their voices too often are silenced. On Tuesday, October 27, join GRITtv host Laura Flanders at CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics with Afghan activists Malalai Joya, the first female Afghan parliamentarian, Awista Ayub and Nasrine Gross to discuss their work rebuilding their country.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Skylight Room (9th floor)

If you can’t make the event, don’t miss our Tuesday show on Afghanistan, featuring Malalai Joya and Nasrine Gross, right here at 8 PM.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

GRITtv: David Cole: Torture and Rationalizing the Unthinkable

David Cole, editor of "Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable", on what may be one of the darkest moments in the last half century of US history, possibly longer: the authorization of torture by high level officials in the Bush administration. Cole's new book lays out the case against the architects of US torture policy. But will they be prosecuted?


Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Things They Carry

More 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. As Memorial Day approaches how will soldiers, families of soldiers, and the rest of our society reflect on the dead and those still living with the trauma of war?




Today on GRITtv Darren Subarton a veteran who served in the Army’s 101st Air Borne Division, Joshua Kors who has written extensively on the experience of veterans returning from war, Dan Lohaus director of When I Came Home, and Nada Michael a student in Social Work at Smith College discuss the challenges veterans face, dealing with the VA, and what likely won't be discussed Memorial Day.............


When I Came Home

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Who Will Own Your Home?

How many more homes will be lost before the federal government actually does something? After trillions of dollars have been promised to banks, the Obama administration finally unveiled its plan to assist homeowners facing foreclosure.




GRITtv w/Laura Flanders

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Business of War

GRITtv with Laura Flanders



Even as congress denies billions in assistance to states, there is little if any talk of cutting US defense spending. Since the end of the Second World War, when Dwight Eisenhower warned of the ever expanding military industrial complex, military spending has been linked to the nation's economic well-being. In times of prosperity and economic distress alike, defense spending is pushed as economic stimulus. And it's a bipartisan affliction. But who benefits and what is their interest in maintaining a war time economy?

On GRITtv Pratap Chatterjee, the author of "Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War" and the founder of Corpwatch, Eugene Jarecki, documentary filmmaker and director of the acclaimed "Why We Fight", and Scott Ritter, the author of "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change" examine the business of war and why stimulus and star wars are so hard to separate.

Then retired US army colonel Ann Wright talks about her recent trip to Gaza. Throughout Israel's intensive war in Gaza, reporters and international observers have been barred from entering the region. Wright says that the damage is extensive and Israel's disproportionate response "criminal." Wright and Code Pink are planning fundraising events to aid women's groups in Gaza for International Women's Day. Find out what you can do here.

GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders.com and author of "Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America"