Showing videos filed under: fearmongering

• Jay Smooth: The Giant Word: Got-No-Sensitive

  September 15, 2010

  "Your real friends are the ones who respect you enough to tell you when you're not thinking straight," says Jay Smooth, videoblogger, DJ and commentator. In his latest blog, a collaboration with GIANT magazine, Jay defines the term "got-no-sensitive" for us and traces its history back to Joseph McCarthy.

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• Vince Warren, Russ Feingold, and Jay Smooth

  September 14, 2010

  “Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.

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• Back to Bush? World Media and Obama

  December 4, 2009

  Esther 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.

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• World Media and Obama, Let Fury Have the Hour and American Faust

  December 3, 2009

  The 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?

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