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Showing videos filed under: video games
The Politics of Videogames: Reality and Overreaction
October 12, 2010'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.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.Violence, Video Games, and the Supreme Court
April 29, 2010When the WikiLeaks video hit, the video game comparisons came fast and furious, including on this show, where we looked at a report that video games might help overcome people's natural resistance to shooting at one another. Now the Supreme Court is going to look at whether the a ban on sale of violent video games to minors is constitutional. If they support the ban, it would be the first time that the obscenity rule has been applied to violent images rather than sexual ones.Ed Pilkington, Violent Video Games, and Oklahoma
April 28, 2010TV networks and bloggers alike got some mileage out of the comments in a Goldman Sachs email that an investment was a "sh*tty deal," but Ed Pilkington of the British newspaper The Guardian thinks it's about time that U.S. politics got a little rougher, say, how they've been in the U.K. for a while now. But an import from U.S. electoral politics--a televised debate between the three main candidates for Prime Minister--has shaken up politics in the U.K. and rocketed a former Nation magazine intern, Liberal Democrat candidate Nick Clegg, to fame.Karen Higgins, Paul Rogat Loeb, and Workplace Safety
April 8, 2010The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program.The F Word: Gaming Your Brain for Violence
April 8, 2010The WikiLeaks video of civilian killings by U.S. forces in Iraq has inspired some soul-searching this week. The New York Times ran a story on the dehumanizing effect of military training. The reporter wrote of the leaked video: “One reason that the soldiers seemed as if they were playing a video game is that, in a morbid but necessary sense, they were.”Collateral Murder
April 7, 2010On Monday, the independent site Wikileaks.org released a video of a shooting in Iraq that had been covered up for years. Among the victims of the U.S. soldiers in an Apache helicopter were two children and a Reuters photographer, whose telephoto lens was apparently taken for a weapon. We bring you a selection from the video.The F Word: Impossible to Ignore Wikileaks Tape
April 6, 2010"Well, it's their fault bringing their kids to a battle." Those words, spoken by a faceless soldier, echo from a classified US military video released by the site Wikileaks.org. The release comes on the heels of the revelation of a cover-up in Afghanistan—and the anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, as well as the anniversary of his “Beyond Vietnam” speech.Safe Jobs, Anne Elizabeth Moore, and the Wikileaks Tape
April 6, 2010The coal mine in West Virginia where an explosion killed 25 workers on Monday and left four missing "had amassed scores of citations from mining safety officials," according to ABC News. Amidst all the talk of jobs and unemployment, Ed Ott notes, we've lost focus on the "good" and "safe" jobs part of the equation, let alone "well-paid."
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