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Tariq Ali, Sonali Kolhatkar, and Voices from Ground Zero
May 2, 2011"If the aim was to show us that state terror was more powerful than individual terrorists, we already knew that," says Tariq Ali of the U.S. special forces action that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. As Americans celebrated outside of the White House and gathered at Ground Zero to remember those lost, Tariq reminds us that bin Laden's death will not make the U.S. safer.The F Word: Searching for Closure at Ground Zero
May 2, 2011Closure. That was the word on people's lips last night after President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan.Alexander Cockburn & Vince Warren: Prosecuting WikiLeaks
December 9, 2010"It's the ruling class talking amongst itself," notes Alexander Cockburn of the information that WikiLeaks exposes and governments want to suppress. Meanwhile, Julian Assange is being held without bail, and online it's 4chan versus Mastercard, Xipwire versus PayPal in the fight to keep WikiLeaks open and funded as quickly as the government and corporate entities can shut it down.Prosecuting WikiLeaks, Jamie Court and Cancun Climate Talks
December 8, 2010"It's the ruling class talking amongst itself," notes Alexander Cockburn of the information that WikiLeaks exposes and governments want to suppress. Meanwhile, Julian Assange is being held without bail, and online it's 4chan versus Mastercard, Xipwire versus PayPal in the fight to keep WikiLeaks open and funded as quickly as the government and corporate entities can shut it down.Hamid Dabashi: Iran, The Green Movement, and the USA
November 24, 2010Before the contested Iranian election of 2009, scholar Hamid Dabashi notes, most people in the U.S. only thought of Iran in terms of geopolitics. But when protesters poured into the streets that summer, he points out, "Suddenly people mattered. People's liberty, and economic and social well-being mattered."Vince Warren, Hamid Dabashi, and the Crisis in Ireland
November 23, 2010The Republicans who will shortly be taking over the house after the recent elections have pledged to shrink the government and cut spending, but, Vince Warren notes, they seem to have no problem with "Big Government" when it's holding detainees indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay.
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