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GRITtv: 2009: End of an Error? Looking Back at the Year That Was
It's the end of 2009. We're still in two wars, Guantanamo is not yet closed, and the jobless numbers are still sky-high. What happened to all the optimism we started the year with? There have been bright spots and not-so-bright spots, nasty political fights and moments of progress. Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, Danny Schechter of News Dissector, and Max Blumenthal discuss the highs and lows of 2009, from the inauguration to the bank bailouts, health care reform to Sarah Palin.
Email this pageGRITtv: The 00's, The Uh-Ohs, The Ought-Nots -- The Worst Decade?
Maybe it's not technically the end of a decade. But with the switch from Bush to Obama, it seems as good a time as any to look back at the 2000's--whatever you call them. Whether Time is right that it was the worst decade ever, or that's a bit of an exaggeration, progressives can't argue that a lot happened in the past ten years, and a lot of it was depressing. Katrina vanden Heuvel ofThe Nation, Mark Green of Air America, Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and Nancy Giles of CBS News Sunday Morning look back from Bush v. Gore to the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina to the Stupak amendment.
GRITtv: Dec. 23, 2009
It's the end of 2009. We're still in two wars, Guantanamo is not yet closed, and the jobless numbers are still sky-high. What happened to all the optimism we started the year with? We discuss the year that was and the decade that was with a roundtable of our favorite guests, including Katrina vanden Heuvel ofThe Nation, Mark Green of Air America, Danny Schechter of News Dissector, Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and Nancy Giles of CBS News Sunday Morning. We also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on progressive organizing through media--what works, what doesn't, and where to go from here.
