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GRITtv: Vince Warren: Big Government But Failure to Restore Rule of Law Under Obama
Ahmed Ghailani, the Guantanamo prisoner accused of taking part in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania goes to the courts in NY this week but is being denied a fair trial as federal prosecutors recently rejected appealing a ruling by a trial judge that prohibits a key witness from testifying. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks, that presumably only an expanded state security and defense apparatus can save us from. If the the FBI raids on peace activists last month are any indication, we're already well on our way. But what does America think of government powers under Obama? We'll look at a new poll from USA Today. GRITtv contributor Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights is here.
Email this pageGRITtv: Oct. 12 2010
Ahmed Ghailani, the Guantanamo prisoner accused of taking part in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania goes to the courts in NY this week but is being denied a fair trial as federal prosecutors recently rejected appealing a ruling by a trial judge that prohibits a key witness from testifying. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks, that presumably only an expanded state security and defense apparatus can save us from. If the the FBI raids on peace activists last month are any indication, we're already well on our way. But what does America think of government powers under Obama? We'll look at a new poll from USA Today. GRITtv contributor Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights is here. '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. To discuss this and more, we're joined by two video gamer experts, Kieron Gillen, director of Rock Paper Shotgun and Lucas Siegel, site editor of Newsarama and a Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. And our community video comes from Jane Regan of Haiti Grassroots Watch has been spending time in the devastated country, documenting the ongoing struggle of Haitians still reeling from January's earthquake. All that and Laura's F Word looks to the socialist government of Hungary to see what we can learn in the face of BP's catastrophic oil spill.
Global Report: Sept. 29-Oct. 5 2010: BPA Exposure in Humans Grossly Underestimated
In this week's news: the Obama administration intervened to help stop a federal lawsuit over the administration's plan to assassinate a U.S. citizen overseas; the FBI raided anti-war activists' homes across the country for counter-terrorism investigations; human exposure to toxic BPA chemicals was discovered to be grossly underestimated; and in recent months, more private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. These stories and more.
Global Report: Aug. 25-31 2010: US Military to Remain in Afghanistan for Years
Among this week's news: US air base plans reveal the US military intends to stay in Afghanistan for years; in Iraq, despite official statements to the contrary, American troops remain and sometimes die in combat; the FBI and CIA are sued over an American's torture; and a top former FBI interrogator says the fight against an Islamic center being built a few blocks away from Ground Zero is helping al Qaida. These stories and more.
"Democracy Now!": Fri. Apr. 2 2010
As demolitions begin, community activists see the new Detroit Urban Renewal Plan as a land-grab; mass closures of public schools and promotion of charters raise fears of a privatized Detroit Education System; Detroit activist, philosopher Grace Lee Boggs says, “The only way to survive is by taking care of one another”; a U.S. Social Forum is to be held in Detroit under the banner of “Another World is Possible, Another US is Necessary”; calls grow for an expanded Justice Dept. probe of the FBI killing of a Detroit imam. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
"Democracy Now!": Thurs. Feb. 25 2010
Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and the political and legal blogger for Salon.com, says Democrats are disingenuously hiding behind the cover of the filibuster to justify their political inaction on the public option when they could approve it through budget reconciliation. The FBI and US attorney are investigating a Pennsylvania school district’s spying on young students through laptop webcams. For his new book, “The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State”, National Journal correspondent Shane Harris spoke to the key architects of the US government’s surveillance programs over the past quarter century and tells the story of how spying on US citizens has become both easier and legal and is now the cornerstone of the Obama administration’s national security strategy. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
