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Showing videos filed under: thatcher
The F Word: Iron Lady: The Margaret Thatcher Movie We Don't Need
January 5, 2012In the new bio-pic, Margaret Thatcher's iron isn't just rusty, it's melted down into something depoliticized and personal. The Iron Lady give us Thatcher -- The ABBA Version. It's the last thing we need.Tariq Ali & Alexander Cockburn: War and Taxes
September 17, 2010We've had a lot of talk this week about the Left: where is it? Why does the media ignore it? What can we do to rebuild it? And whose fault is any of this? The mainstream media might ignore voices from the Left, but here on GRITtv those are just the voices that matter--and today, we welcome two you may have heard of: Tariq Ali and Alexander Cockburn.Tariq Ali & Alexander Cockburn, and Mary Bottari
September 16, 2010We've had a lot of talk this week about the Left: where is it? Why does the media ignore it? What can we do to rebuild it? And whose fault is any of this? The mainstream media might ignore voices from the Left, but here on GRITtv those are just the voices that matter--and today, for a special feature, we welcome two you may have heard of: Tariq Ali and Alexander Cockburn.Gary Younge: Power and Democracy
March 23, 2010The flawed health care bill that finally made it through Congress might show the limitations of democracy in the U.S., but Gary Younge, correspondent for the Guardian and the Nation, assures us that it's worse in Europe.Health Care, Gary Younge, and Protesting Iraq
March 22, 2010The House of Representatives, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, passed historic health care reform late Sunday night. That's a fact. Also a fact is that the bill is far from perfect, and legislators from all sides will be working to shape the bill more to their liking. Progressives regret the lack of a public option, let alone single payer, and the use of women's reproductive choice as a political football in the negotiations--Obama was forced into an executive order reaffirming the Hyde Amendment's commitment not to use federal dollars for abortions.
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