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Showing videos filed under: escalation
Year in Review: Zoya from RAWA
December 28, 2009Barack Obama announced last month that the US would be sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. (No word on how many private contractors would be accompanying them.) He did not explicitly use the Afghan women as justification, but many politicians have, claiming that we cannot leave the women to their fate.I Rise Today In Favor of Peace
December 22, 2009Alan Grayson, the outspoken representative from Florida, has made a name for himself with his floor speeches in favor of health care reform. He's also against escalation in Afghanistan, and in this video from Brave New Films, he calls on Congress to oppose sending any more troops to an unwinnable war.Movies, Philadelphia Security Officers, and Alan Grayson
December 21, 2009The holiday season is usually when the biggest movies of the year come out, but there are several that have been out for a while generating lots of buzz. Kathryn Bigelow received a Golden Globe nomination for The Hurt Locker and is being touted as the woman who could break the Best Director Oscar's all-male streak. Other films this year told unconventional stories of women outside the usual mold of Hollywood superstars. But was this actually a good year for women in cinema?Firsthand Views from Afghanistan
December 17, 2009President Obama spoke of "seeing firsthand" what happens in Afghanistan when he visited Walter Reed. But in the latest segment from Brave New Films' Rethink Afghanistan, veterans point out that at best Obama's only seen a second or third-hand version of what they saw and dealt with every day.Fixing Capitalism, Public Housing, and Kambale Musavuli
December 16, 2009Breaking News: Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time’s Person of the Year. The recession's over! Not so fast.Week in Review: A Voice from Afghanistan
December 4, 2009Barack Obama announced this week that the US would be sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. (No word on how many private contractors would be accompanying them.) He did not explicitly use the Afghan women as justification, but many politicians have, claiming that we cannot leave the women to their fate.Back to Bush? World Media and Obama
December 4, 2009Esther Armah, award-winning international journalist and WBAI host, Michael Bronner, Vanity Fair correspondent, and Jamal Dajani, co-creator and producer of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, join us to fill in the blanks on the coverage and provide some alternative viewpoints.John Nichols: Congress Missing On War Debate
December 4, 2009Obama might have laid out his reasons for continuing the war in Afghanistan, but The Nation's John Nichols wants us all to remember that the Constitution actually gave Congress the power to make war. Obama might be consistent with his campaign promises to escalate, but, Nichols notes, public opinion has shifted andCongress is better equipped to respond.World Media and Obama, Let Fury Have the Hour and American Faust
December 3, 2009The response to Obama's Afghanistan speech on most US news stations was delivered by the same old familiar faces: mostly male, mostly white anchors and serious pundits who had ruled out a long time ago the possibility of alternative solutions. But what did the rest of the world think?A Voice from RAWA: Zoya on Afghanistan
December 3, 2009Barack Obama announced last night that the US would be sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. (No word on how many private contractors would be accompanying them.) He did not explicitly use the Afghan women as justification, but many politicians have, claiming that we cannot leave the women to their fate.
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