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Showing videos filed under: debate
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Not Far Enough on Financial Regulation
April 29, 2010Republicans might have dropped their filibuster and agreed to allow a debate on financial reform, but with the amount of money that Wall Street firms have sunk into both Republicans and Democrats, does it make a difference? And what kind of reform do we really need, anyway?Bernie Sanders, BP Oil Spill, and Kathleen Chalfant
April 29, 2010Republicans might have dropped their filibuster and agreed to allow a debate on financial reform, but with the amount of money that Wall Street firms have sunk into both Republicans and Democrats, does it make a difference? And what kind of reform do we really need, anyway?Welcome to Irrational America
January 27, 2010We ask Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason and contributor to the Washington Post, and Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God and Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism), to talk about the problems with our politics, our discourse, our religious disputes, and why "moderates" don't get off the hook for this.GRITtv Live at Noon: What Don't You Know?
October 8, 2008It was a good night for That One and John McCain seems desperate for friends. On GRITtv we take a look at the policy differences between the candidates after debate number two, with Andrea Batista Schlesinger of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy; Rosa Clemente, Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party; Nate Lowentheil of the Roosevelt Institution - the nation's first studentThe Deadly Infantilization of American Politics: Robert Fisk and Patricia DeGennaro
October 3, 2008How is it possible to unfairly grill a prospective commander in chief on a raging war? After 8 years of Bush, have our expectations for what a top leader can articulate fallen so low as to make a meaningful debate impossible? To answer these questions, we turn to Robert Fisk, Britain's foremost foreign correspondent, who writes for the Independent and author of new collection of essays, The AgePartisanship, Personality and the Deadly Infantilization of American Politics. Followed by Palin's Apocalypse. And Voting.
October 2, 2008Biden v Palin -- when the veep candidates debate tonight, the spotlight will be on a 36 year veteran politician with a specialty in Foreign Policy vs. a newbie Alaska Governor whose foreign policy comments have been the subject of a week of jokes. Award-winning Middle East reporter Robert Fisk says Joe Biden's foreign policy credentials are nothing to be proud of.
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