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"You don't go to war without being changed by it," says Geoff Millard, former Chair of the Board of Iraq Veterans Against the War. From sky-high suicide rates for veterans at home to horrific stories of "kill teams" in Afghanistan, we're hearing stories every day of the traumas that going to war inflicts on our young men and women. Millard and IVAW, though, have been working both at home and back in Iraq to bring about some sort of reconciliation, both for soldiers and for Iraqi civilians. Millard joins Laura in studio to discuss IVAW's Operation Recovery campaign to stop redeploying traumatized soldiers, the ongoing news from the wars, and his upcoming trip back to Iraq on a humanitarian mission. "Standing up and speaking out against a supervisor is harder than what I do every day," says Mary Kay Henry, new president of the Service Employees International Union. Yet becoming the first woman--and the first out lesbian--to lead the country's largest labor union means she's faced some pretty tough battles, and she's gearing up for another one: an election in which corporations are outspending progressives 26 to 1 for anti-worker candidates. Henry joins Laura in studio for a talk about the future of SEIU, her past as an organizer, and why it's important to keep the fight going long after November's elections. Finally, the Obama administration seems to be taking out its frustrations on the so-called "professional left," setting up blame for anticipated losses in November. But maybe they could take a lesson from Bill Clinton, of all people...

Amidst all the hullabaloo over the health care bill in the past week, President Obama quietly signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, otherwise known as the HIRE Act or the jobs bill. But is the bill, mostly a collection of temporary corporate tax breaks, really going to put people to work--or will it bypass those most in need, often communities of color and urban residents? Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Nation columnist and Princeton professor, and Judith Browne-Dianis, executive director of The Advancement Project, join us to discuss jobs, race, and whether the White House has already missed some big opportunities.

Welcome to GRITtv's new format! We're coming to you from our new studio in SoHo, shooting higher resolution video. We'll be bringing you 30 minutes of content 5 days a week from now on, featuring more of our friends from around the country, more field reporting, and some other new surprises as well. Hope you enjoy! Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, joins Laura in studio to talk about recent news. A spate of profiles of Timothy Geithner hit the news recently, from Vogue to the Atlantic and several places in between. We ask a couple of experts what's really going on with the economy--and if Geithner deserves any of that praise. Robert Johnson is the director of economic policy at the Roosevelt Institute and the former chief economist for the Senate Banking Committee. Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America. They both have some words for the Democrats on what happens if don't wise up. Nahr al-Bared ("Cold River") refugee camp in Lebanon is home to 20,000 displaced Palestinians, struggling to rebuild their home after its destruction in 2007. The camp has been around for some 60 years, and in this excerpt from "Checkpoints and More" by A Films, residents of the camp tell their stories. Finally, Laura reminds us that while some profiles of Geithner may be cheering the former New York Fed chair, he's also implicated in the collapse of Lehman Brothers.