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Showing videos filed under: security
Vince Warren: Big Government But Failure to Restore Rule of Law Under Obama
October 13, 2010Ahmed Ghailani, the Guantanamo prisoner accused of taking part in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania goes the courts in NY this week but is being denied a fair trial as federal prosecutors recently rejected appealing a ruling by a trial judge that prohibits a key witness from testifying. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks, that presumably only an expanded state security and defense apparatus can save us from.Vince Warren, Video Games & Censorship, and Haiti
October 12, 2010GRITtv contributor Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights takes a look at what the failures in Ghailani's trial mean restoring the rule of law. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks. Then, 'Medal of Honor' is a video game out this week set in modern day, war-torn Afghanistan. The controversy? As a player you can choose to play on the opposing force - essentially as the Taliban. This has led to the game being banned at US Army base stores.David Corn, Fatima Bhutto, and the War on Drugs
September 23, 2010Provisions of the much-disputed health care bill go into effect today, just as the Republicans unveil their new "Pledge to America," which includes a promise to repeal the law. But as the most popular bits are the ones that go into effect now, and, David Corn notes, health insurance companies aren't getting any more popular--will allying themselves with the big insurers help Republicans? Or will people realize that they like the regulations just as Republicans try to pull them back?The F Word: Is the Drug War a Class War?
September 23, 2010The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts. Like the war on terror, the war on drugs racks up one hell of a body count, and its victims are mostly innocent civilians with no more love for the corrupt regimes that rule them than we have.Christian Parenti: More War in Store?
May 14, 2010Contributing editor to The Nation, Christian Parenti joins us in studio to share his take that the United States response to Afghanistan is a political instance of an iatrogenic disease: an endless cycle of creating more problems with supposed “cures.”Trading Freedom for Security
March 19, 2010Public protest isn't dead, but those are only a few people in a huge population that suffers all sorts of indignities regularly. Our military budget is outlandish and our freedoms are regularly taken away. What have we traded these for, and why don't more people join the protests? We ask John Kampfner,author of Freedom for Sale, and Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.Christian Parenti, Trading Freedom for Security, and Dove
March 18, 2010Seven years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. We're still there, but attention in the media has largely shifted to Afghanistan, and even Pakistan. Millions of people hit the streets seven years ago, across the world, to protest the coming invasion of Iraq. Tea parties (and now coffee parties) seem to be popping up everywhere, and this weekend will see a large-scale march for immigration reform. Just Thursday, Lt. Dan Choi and others marched on the White House for a repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.The Most Dangerous Man in America
March 5, 2010Continuing with our Oscar theme, we bring you the second part of our conversation with whistleblower, anti-war activist, and documentary film subject Daniel Ellsberg. Since the 1960s, Ellsberg has been fighting to stop war and bring government secrets into the open, and he knows firsthand how much power citizens can wield against the government.The Oscars, Daniel Ellsberg and Sweet Crude
March 4, 2010The Academy Awards are this weekend, so we invited three of our favorite film critics and pop culture queens to talk about the whole shebang: will Kathryn Bigelow break the Best Director glass ceiling? Is Sandra Bullock going to take home a statuette? Was Avatar all that it was cracked up to be? And why was that Vanity Fair Hollywood issue cover so darn white?
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