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GRITtv: Militants and Predator Drones: Who is the Real Terrorist?
Pakistani militant extremism and American drones, which are the real terrorists? Is it one, the other, or an ironic joint effort of the two? Between suicide bombings and collateral damage from drones, thousands of militants and civilians alike have been killed by both. 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.
Email this pageGRITtv: Nothing Resolved in Honduras
The announcement that the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, would be returned to power in a power-sharing agreement seems to have come too soon. In this video from The Real News, we learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it. Citizen activists' end goal is not only restoration of the democratically-elected president but also a constituent assembly to rewrite a constitution that largely favors those with wealth and power, and they are still fighting despite pressure from outside and restrictions from Micheletti's coup regime.
GRITtv: Clock Ticking in Honduras
Al Giordano of Narco News analyzes the options for the Honduran people months after the coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya. He has little hope for any major change in the situation in the country before the scheduled elections Nov. 29. Zelaya cannot run for reelection due to constitutional term limits, but Giordano suggests, in this video from The Real News, that the popular resistance could take matters into its own hands and hold the referendum that was scheduled to take place before Zelaya's removal, whether the coup regime likes it or not.
