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GRITtv: Andrew Bacevich: The Bipartisan War Project
"War has become normal and the wars we engage in have become open-ended enterprises," notes historian and best-selling author Andrew Bacevich. More importantly, our ongoing state of war is one that has been created by politicians from both parties, and our entire way of life in the U.S. is implicated in its creation. In part one of a two-part interview, Bacevich joins Laura in studio to talk about his new book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the moment when he, as an army officer, realized that the story he'd been told about why we fight wasn't the full tale.
Email this pageGRITtv: Aug. 3 2010
"Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less." That's according to "Martha," a hazardous waste worker in the Gulf, who joins us via Skype anonymously to report on the conditions workers are facing cleaning up BP's mess. "Martha" has been reporting on conditions to the blog The Political Carnival, where more of her stories of workers being fired, prisoner labor used in cleanup, improper training and safety conditions, and of course, following the money around the trail of contracts and confusion that is the Gulf Coast post-Deepwater Horizon. War has become normal, and the wars we engage in have become open-ended enterprises, notes historian and best-selling author Andrew Bacevich. More importantly, our ongoing state of war is one that has been created by politicians from both parties, and our entire way of life in the U.S. is implicated in its creation. In part one of a two-part interview, Bacevich joins Laura in studio to talk about his new book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the moment when he, as an army officer, realized that the story he'd been told about why we fight wasn't the full tale.
GRITtv: Tear Down This Wall
20 years from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are other walls in other parts of the world still keeping people separate and unequal. In Ni'llin Monday, Palestinian activists tore down a segment of the wall across the West Bank in protest of increasing Israeli settlements and in memory of the Germans who tore down the Berlin wall and helped bring a close to the Cold War.
GRITtv: Nov. 10, 2009
Jill Filipovic, Frances Kissling, Diane Archer and Eesha Pandit talk about strategies for responding to Stupak, and what activists, feminists, and allies can do to make Democrats understand that women are not bargaining chips. Emily and Sarah grew up in the shadow attorney William Kunstler, and join us to talk about the documentary they have made about their father. We check in with the situation in Honduras, with 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. And we have video from an Iraq veteran who put together a clip contrasting statements made before the war with the grim realities of combat. And 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian activists tore down a segment of the wall across the West Bank in protest of increasing Israeli settlements.
