GRITtv » Iraq

Showing videos filed under: Iraq

Mike Papantonio, Maude Barlow & Shannon Biggs, and Investing at Home
April 20, 2011
"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.
American: The Bill Hicks Story
April 15, 2011
Comedian Bill Hicks "was really obsessed in some ways with the idea of getting people to think for themselves, confronting them with ideas they might have on a big subject," says filmmaker Matt Harlock, one of the directors of the new documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story. Hicks died in 1994, but his influence lives on in today's political comics and his critiques of the first Iraq war sound remarkably prescient years later.
Mark Hertsgaard, The Bill Hicks Story, and Making Obama Fight
April 14, 2011
"At a time when we are cutting health care, cutting education, cutting old people from the budget, we want to put $50 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power?" asks Mark Hertsgaard, longtime environmental reporter. "Nuclear power will make climate change worse, not better," he argues.
Micah Sifry: WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
March 4, 2011
"Wikileaks is a symptom of a much larger change, an age when information can be moved into the public arena by all kinds of people," says Micah Sifry of the Personal Democracy Forum. Bradley Manning, the accused leaker of the "Collateral Murder" video aired on WikiLeaks, faces 22 new charges from the government, including "Aiding the Enemy." But which enemy is he aiding, Micah asks? Is it us?
Dave Zirin, Micah Sifry, and the Military Budget
March 3, 2011
"It's not about dollars and cents, it's about owners telling players who is boss," says Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation, about the impending NFL lockout. Even Barack Obama has gotten into the act, though, writing off the labor dispute in professional football as "millionaires fighting billionaires" and ignoring the real factors in the fight, from the health risks and short careers the players face to the people who will be out of work if football doesn't go on--while the owners sign a TV contract that pays them even if there is no season.
John Lewis: Conscience of the Congress
February 16, 2011
Representative John Lewis told us on GRITtv not long ago about his time leading civil rights marches and fighting for justice alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. From leading marches to making impassioned speeches in front of Congress, calling on his colleagues to make the right choices on the Iraq war and continuing to fight for the rights of those often forgotten, Lewis is honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom today, and we honor him as well with some of his most memorable speeches.
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?"
Breakthrough: Restore Fairness
February 11, 2011
Karwan Abdul Kader left Iraq when he was 7, seeking refuge from Saddam's attacks on the Kurds. But he faces a different kind of attack in the U.S., as this next clip from our friends at Breakthrough shows. He shares his story of dealing with racial profiling after escaping a dictatorship.
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Ryan Grim, Matthew Alexander, and the PATRIOT Act
February 10, 2011
"We don't write about class struggle in the US so it's hard for us to see it elsewhere," says the Huffington Post's Ryan Grim on the failings of the US media around issues in Egypt. And Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that Islamophobia in the US leads many to focus on fear of the Muslim Brotherhood rather than understanding the ways that Islam and democracy coexist and complement one another.
Khaled Fahmy, Medea Benjamin, and City of Joy
February 9, 2011
The revolution in Egypt at first was less about poverty and labor than it was about police brutality and the mistreatment of the people by a repressive regime. But now, Khaled Fahmy notes, the growing labor movement in Egypt is coming to the fore, following two years of concerted effort and protest by workers across the country.

NOTICE: GRITtv and GRITradio are not affiliated with Ogden Publications, Inc., and are in no way associated with, or authorized or sponsored by, Ogden Publications Inc. or GRIT Magazine.
For information on GRIT magazine, go to www.grit.com.

RECENT VIDEOS

Showing videos filed under: Iraq