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GRITtv: Bumbling Buggers or Intelligence Operatives?

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Yesterday, Laura called our attention to the strange tale of the attempt at bugging Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, noting the stories uncovered by indie reporters connecting the dots between the ACORN sting, the break-in, and funding flowing into universities from the nation's intelligence agencies -- as well as right-wing organizations.

GRITtv: Feb. 2, 2010

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Yesterday, Laura called our attention to the strange tale of the attempt at bugging Senator Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, noting the stories uncovered by indie reporters connecting the dots between the ACORN sting, the break-in, and funding flowing into universities from the nation's intelligence agencies--as well as right-wing organizations.

GRITtv: DeFOXAmerica: The ACORN Witch Hunt

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Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill says of the attack on ACORN, "It's part of the broader attack on the poor of this country, the broader attack on the working people of this country, and ultimately the broader attack on democracy in this country." With this new video from Brave New Films, we look at the Republican witch hunt against ACORN's work with the poor and people of color, and the motivations behin

GRITtv: October 28, 2009

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Derivatives and credit default swaps might not sound as scary as death panels, but they're responsible, at least in part, for our economic meltdown. The Dow might be back up, but most of the country is still suffering from the aftereffects of the bankers' greed. The Showdown in Chicago protests this week attempted to attract attention to the conference, where bankers attended panels with titles like "Strategies for Acquiring Troubled Banks," "NonInterest Income," and "Unwinding Government Intervention," along with a keynote speech by Newt Gingrich.

GRITtv: Jeremy Scahill: Defunding the Real Corporate Felons

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Jeremy Scahill explains why a small group of Democratic lawmakers are pushing back against efforts to cut off funding to ACORN. If ACORN is targeted for fraud and abuse of federal funds, military contractors, drug companies, and a long list of corporations that continue to receive massive federal contracts despite well documented wrong doing should be next. You can find out more in Scahill's article in this week's issue of the Nation.

GRITtv: Oct. 6, 2009

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Cassidy Friedman has made a video about Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who plunged into the healthcare debate with an editorial for the Wall Street Journal in which he declared that, "Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals." Plus all the latest news and headlines about Afghanistan, healthcare, ACORN and more.

GRITtv: F Word: GOP Nuts Throw ACORN From a Glass House

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The House this month passed by a wide margin a provision that would bar ACORN from receiving any federal funding. Every House Republican voted 'aye' as well as 172 Democrats. Soon the Senate will consider its own complete ban measure. Let's hope they enjoy their gloat and then get right back to business. The legislation they passed in all their rush, you see, is written so broadly that it just comes in very handy. Rep. Alan Grayson (D of Florida) has already asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to find out which other contractors might be caught in the ACORN net.

GRITtv: September 17, 2009

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How did the mainstream media cover this week’s Iranian election, tea-bagger rally in D.C. or former President Carter’s comment about racism and politics in the U.S.? Our media panel, Max Blumenthal, Janeane Garafolo, and Kai Wright, discuss newsmakers’ hits and misses. And in this week's Got Docs?: Raymond Myles was a man of profound contradiction: gospel singer, hustler, prominent representative of the New Orleans Black Church, scorned gay worshipper. Now, he is the subject of Leo Sacks' A Taste of Heaven: The Heartbreak life of Raymond Myles.

GRITtv: Media Panel: Persistent Racism Continues to Tarnish News Coverage

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How did the mainstream media cover this week's Iranian election, tea-bagger rally in D.C. or former President Carter's comment about racism and politics in the U.S.? Our media panel, senior writer for the Daily Beast and author of New York Times bestseller, Republican Gomorrah, Max Blumenthal, actress and political commentator, Janeane Garafolo, and senior writer of theRoot.com, Kai Wright, discuss newsmakers? Hits and misses.

Democracy Now! Thursday, September 17, 2009

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The anti-poverty group ACORN is coming under a firestorm of criticism after the group’s workers were caught on camera appearing to offer advice to a pimp and prostitute. We speak with ACORN chief executive Bertha Lewis. And two advocates for a radical rethinking of how the nation’s economy is structured, Grace Lee Boggs and John Bellamy Foster, discuss their ideas. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.

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