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• Phyllis Bennis: More Troops and More Violence in the Middle East

  March 30, 2011

  “I wonder if those same people who asked for the intervention, when they ask for the intervention to end, will we listen to them?"

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• Phyllis Bennis, Mark Bittman, and South Dakota's Anti-Choice Legislation

  March 29, 2011

  “I wonder if those same people who asked for the intervention, when they ask for the intervention to end, will we listen to them?" asks GRITtv foreign affairs correspondent and author Phyllis Bennis. Who will the leadership that so swiftly made the decision to commit troops to Libya answer to? Phyllis joins us via Skype to discuss the continued presence of U.S. troops in the Middle East.

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• Maya Wiley & Richard Wolff: State of American Exceptionalism

  January 27, 2011

  Michele Bachmann isn't the only one who believes in American exceptionalism--there was plenty in Barack Obama's State of the Union speech that reiterated the notion that the US is somehow above the rest of the world. But what does all that mean now? Richard Wolff says "We are exceptional these days not only in the nice and happy things but in things that are not so good." And Maya Wiley points out "It's good if we feel strongly about the importance of our nation. What's complicated is what's behind it."

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• Kai Wright, Maya Wiley & Rick Wolff, and Cairo Protests

  January 26, 2011

  "There was no there there. There wasn't a whole lot you could sink your teeth into, but it was very much Obama in 2008 in terms of 'let's spend responsibly, let's all get along, let's be scientific and smart and go forth and be Americans and we're exceptional,'" said ColorLines editor Kai Wright of Obama's State of the Union speech last night.

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