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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.Remembering Chalmers Johnson and Frank W. Lewis
November 22, 2010This weekend brought us two losses that will be felt throughout the Nation and GRITtv families.Tom Engelhardt: McChrystal's Gone, Policy The Same
June 23, 2010The announcement came this afternoon: one day after being summoned back to the US to answer for an explosive article in Rolling Stone, General Stanley McChrystal has been relieved of his command in Afghanistan. Instead, General David Petraeus will step in to take his place. But will anything fundamentally change in US policy in the region?Humanitarian Law Project, Afghanistan & McChrystal, and Drones
June 23, 2010In Holder vs. Humanitarian Law project, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional law that it is illegal to “knowingly provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization,” overturning multiple lower court rulings that the law was too broad or vague. This terror-inducing “material support” and “resources” includes, but is not limited to humanitarian aid and non-violent resistance tactics. Under this law, humanitarian assistance on the recent Freedom Flotilla to Gaza could feasibly be legally charged and President Jimmy Carter’s quest for Middle East peace, which involved some communication with “terrorists,” could have quite possibly landed him behind bars.Is the Gender Gap Growing?
May 14, 2009In this recession, men are losing jobs at a faster rate than women. But women, now the primary breadwinners in many families, still earn 79 cents to every dollar that men earn. For minorities the number is even lower. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Women, and especially women of color, are more likely to land the worst, lowest paying jobs, without health insurance, paid sick days or paidGRITtv Live at Noon: Is the Gender Gap Growing?
May 13, 2009In this recession, men are losing jobs at a faster rate than women. But women, now the primary breadwinners in many families, still earn 79 cents to every dollar that men earn. For minorities, the number is even lower. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Women, and especially women of color, are more likely to land the worst, lowest paying jobs, without health insurance, paid sick days or paid
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