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Showing videos filed under: katrina vanden heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Shifting Focus from Deficits
April 20, 2011"We need to stay loudly and clearly that there is an alternative. The debate underway is suffocatingly narrow," says Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, of the way the conversation about jobs and the economy has become a conversation about spending and deficits. Meanwhile, she notes, outside of the Beltway, independent media and independent activists like US Uncut are fighting hard to change the conversation.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Bob Herbert, and Missed Connections
April 19, 2011"We need to stay loudly and clearly that there is an alternative. The debate underway is suffocatingly narrow," says Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, of the way the conversation about jobs and the economy has become a conversation about spending and deficits. Meanwhile, she notes, outside of the Beltway, independent media and independent activists like US Uncut are fighting hard to change the conversation.Katrina vanden Heuvel & Ryan Grim on the State of the Media
February 11, 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.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.Katrina vanden Heuvel: Choosing Sides in the Political Fight
November 23, 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.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.Mike Papantonio, Kate Clinton, Money Media & Corruption
October 26, 2010“It's not an election, it's an auction,” says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. Papantonio's home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor's races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure.The F Word: Campaign Cash, Corruption, Corporate Power.
October 26, 2010Campaign cash -- we're drowning in a flood of it. As Katrina vanden Heuvel noted yesterday on GRITtv, this is on track to be a $5 billion election—and it's not over. We used to have words for spending like that on politicians: bribery. Remember all that quaint anti-colonial talk about "Independence"? As Zephyr Teachout commented in a meeting I was part of, hosted by the Coffee Party, those founding fathers were all about independence from corruption and prosecuting bribery. Remember the phrase "anti-Trust"?Katrina vanden Heuvel & Hendrik Hertzberg: Moneybombing the Election
October 26, 2010"What we are seeing is a dagger directed at the heart of our democracy, with this money," says Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, of the ongoing influx of corporate cash on election spending this cycle. She notes that this has been a $5 billion--with a B--election, with $1 billion spent just on the House, and no matter what Karl Rove tries to say, there is nowhere close to parity with spending from left-wing causes.Katrina vanden Heuvel & Hendrik Hertzberg, 10 Questions, and John Nichols
October 25, 2010"What we are seeing is a dagger directed at the heart of our democracy, with this money," says Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, of the ongoing influx of corporate cash on election spending this cycle. She notes that this has been a $5 billion--with a B--election, with $1 billion spent just on the House, and no matter what Karl Rove tries to say, there is nowhere close to parity with spending from left-wing causes.
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