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Showing videos filed under: War & Peace
Sonali Kolhatkar: Reflecting on Bin Laden, Afghanistan
May 3, 2011"Bin Laden's ideology is not the ideology of the masses, of the Arabs, of people in central Asia, of Muslims," notes Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission. But, she notes, the danger is that now by killing him we have made him a martyr and inflamed anger again among people already feeling marginalized.Tariq Ali: Killing Bin Laden Was Not "Justice"
May 3, 2011"If the aim was to show us that state terror was more powerful than individual terrorists, we already knew that," says Tariq Ali of the U.S. special forces action that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in Abottabad, Pakistan. As Americans celebrated outside of the White House and gathered at Ground Zero to remember those lost, Ali reminds us that bin Laden's death will not make the U.S. safer.New Yorkers Reflect on Bin Laden, September 11
May 3, 2011After the news of Bin Laden's death hit late Sunday night, Laura headed down to Ground Zero to catch up with the New Yorkers who gathered there to remember the collapse of the Twin Towers. A few of them shared their reflections with her, and we share them with you.The F Word: Searching for Closure at Ground Zero
May 2, 2011Closure. That was the word on people's lips last night after President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan.Andrew Bacevich: Serious Thinking About US Military Action
April 29, 2011According to retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, Barack Obama "is a problem solver, he's surrounded himself with problem solvers at a time when maybe we need some creative thinking." This week saw the announcement that General David Petraeus would be taking Leon Panetta's spot as head of the CIA, while Panetta would be moving to replace Robert Gates as Defense Secretary.Gioconda Belli: Bringing Back the Lusty Left
April 27, 2011"Because of the separation of women, we have created societies where we are cut in the middle. And when women have gone into public life they are forced to go into public life like men," says Gioconda Belli, Nicaraguan poet and author and former Sandinista revolutionary and later government member. Gioconda and her female comrades formed "The Party of the Lusty Left" in response to continued sexism by the revolutionary party.Vince Warren: WikiLeaks Exposes Guantanamo Truth
April 26, 2011"The real issue is who was actually at Guantanamo, how were they treated, and this revelation gives us another chance to look at that," says Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who joins Laura in studio to discuss the latest disclosures from WikiLeaks--nearly 800 files on the detainees at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility.The F Word: Guantanamo Files Show Media Priorities
April 25, 2011As I perused the latest WikiLeaks releases this morning, a retweet from their Twitter feed caught my eye: “Gitmo: Compare the first paragraph of these two stories about the same thing.” One was a link to the BBC and one was CNN.Christopher Anderson: Remembering Tim Hetherington
April 22, 2011Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was a guest on GRITtv recently to discuss his Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo, which he made while embedded with a troop of soldiers in Afghanistan. He spoke candidly with us about the dangers of reporting on war.Janus Metz: Armadillo, Kill Teams, and the Savagery of War
April 16, 2011"I think it's an identity project that's been given to you, you can go out there and play the hero in the big scene, inscribe yourself in this political rhetoric about the situation," says Janus Metz, who went with a team of Danish soldiers to Afghanistan to make his documentary, Armadillo.
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