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Showing videos filed under: Culture War
The F Word: The Business of the Right's Anti-Choice Crusade
March 30, 2011The latest front in the all-out war on abortion is once again South Dakota, which succeeded last week in passing a law that forces women seeking abortions to first get advice at “pregnancy help centers,” otherwise known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are not heath care centers, but rather places where anti-abortion counselors pressure pregnant women to carry to full term.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.Hamid Dabashi, Lee Fang & Michael Whitney, and John Lewis
February 15, 2011"People are perfectly capable of democracy and guess what, without US invasion," notes Hamid Dabashi of the lessons from Egypt's revolution. Iran is just one of the countries that, inspired by Tunisia and Egypt, has seen protests in recent days. In Iran, it's a revival and of the civil rights movement that we saw start in 2009 after the elections, Dabashi notes, but moving to a new phase that is demanding more than just "Where is my vote?"The F Word: The Culture War On Jobs
February 15, 2011It might be the greatest bait and switch ever pulled on the American voter. For two successive election cycles we've been promised jobs, a recovering economy, attention to the Constitution. After the last one, triumphant Republican after triumphant Republican declared November's to be an election decided on jobs.Culture War or Class War
October 23, 2008The culture wars may still be raging but will they bring voters to the polls? In 2004, many on the left and right argued that ballot initiatives on gay marriage and abortion helped galvanize the conservative base. So what does the electoral landscape look like this year? There are ballot initiatives in a number of states—from Prop 8 in California to an anti-abortion measure in South Dakota.
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