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Showing videos filed under: empire
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nicolas Rossier and Jean-Bertrand Aristide
November 22, 2010"Average people must look at the screens and see the disconnect—it's not left vs. right, it's top-down. It's establishment vs. people." So says Katrina vanden Heuvel of the average TV news show. She joins us, of course, here on GRITtv for our weekly partnership with The Nation magazine to bring you a different kind of political TV show.Remembering Chalmers Johnson and Frank W. Lewis
November 22, 2010This weekend brought us two losses that will be felt throughout the Nation and GRITtv families.Andrew Bacevich: The Bipartisan War Project
August 4, 2010War has become normal, and the wars we engage in have become open-ended enterprises, notes historian and best-selling author Andrew Bacevich. More importantly, our ongoing state of war is one that has been created by politicians from both parties, and our entire way of life in the U.S. is implicated in its creation.Inside BP Cleanup, Andrew Bacevich, and Valuing Teachers
August 3, 2010"Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less." That's according to "Martha," a hazardous waste worker in the Gulf, who joins us via Skype anonymously to report on the conditions workers are facing cleaning up BP's mess.President Obama Please, No More American Centuries!
February 25, 2009Fifty years ago William Appleman Williams published his seminal book, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. Williams, one of the great chroniclers of twentieth century American history, explored the ideological roots of US foreign policy and the perils of American exceptionalism, despite the best of intentions. Today the fate of the US empire is far from certain.
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