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Militants and Predator Drones: Who is the Real Terrorist?
July 15, 2010
The Real News Network reports from Islamabad, Pakistan that while many students from tribal areas report that their communities oddly support the drone attacks, the majority of the country sees the predator drones as an encroachment on national sovereignty fostering bitter anti-American sentiment.
Amanda Marcotte, Drones, Haiti, Baseball, and New Orleans
July 14, 2010
What's up with all these arguments over feminism these days, anyway? The Daily Show and Gawker blog Jezebel have an argument over its representation of women; meanwhile, Sarah Palin is a feminist! Except when she's not! And the Atlantic has declared The End of Men. What's it all about?
Resistance and Cooperation at the G20 Summit
June 29, 2010
Media coverage of this week's G20 summit focused on "violent" protests and police crackdowns, and reporters Brandon Jourdan and Beka Economopoulos certainly found themselves in the middle of the conflict--Jourdan, as well as Jesse Freeston of The Real News network, were attacked outside of the summit.
Dean Baker, Walter Mosley, the G20, and Hikers in Iran
June 28, 2010
What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates business. It seems that the government know how to do things like keep the unemployment rate down, but the talk at the G20 Summit and the results here at the United States is doing otherwise.
Arizona Law Fuels National Immigration Actions
May 4, 2010
May Day has long been International Workers' Day, but in recent years in the U.S. it has taken on a special meaning for immigration activists and immigrant workers. This year especially brought out crowds demanding recognition, after the recent passage in Arizona of repressive laws targeting immigrants for harassment. The Real News Network was on the ground at actions that included a peaceful sit-down at the White House that saw 35 arrests, including active Democratic Congressman Luis Gutiérrez from Chicago.
Monique Harden, John Fugelsang & Hari Kondabolu, and May Day
May 3, 2010
President Obama headed to Louisiana this weekend to check out the worsening environmental disaster caused by the BP oil spill, and reiterated that BP will have to pay for the cleanup. But, Monique Harden of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights notes, we need to clean up more than just this oil spill--we need to clean up our energy policy.
Honduran Campesinos Under the Gun
April 20, 2010
The coup in Honduras is old news, but conflicts still endure in the Central American country. One of them has been portrayed by the media in Honduras as a fight between "terrorists," possibly foreign-supported, and the law-abiding government and military. The truth, as this video from The Real News Network shows, is a little different.
Farai Chideya, Independent Voters, and Honduras
April 19, 2010
Tea Party crowds held protests last week for tax day, but recent articles and polls have laid more blame for the anger at Obama at the feet of a deep-seated racial anxiety among certain sectors of Americans. "We have to embrace the fact that America is still going through a racial crisis," notes multimedia journalist and former NPR host Farai Chideya.
Hebron Palestinians Protest Closures
March 2, 2010
The Real News Network reports on protests in the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron. After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new Israeli "heritage" plan, which classifies national and holy sites in Israel and the occupied territories as Israeli "heritage." This video explores the tensions that this plan is helping to escalate.
Mapping Torture, Renee Feltz, and Hebron
March 1, 2010
In Trevor Paglen's new book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, he investigates the "off the map" locations of covert government activity: including the "salt pit" in Kabul where Khaled El-Masri was held.

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