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GRITtv: Danny Schechter: Disconnected from Reality In Iran
"I don't think democracy has anything to do with it," says Danny Schechter of continued U.S. obsession with Iran. Instead, he notes, we have a long history of interfering in democratic processes in that country. Meanwhile, Iran is a country preparing for military strikes and dealing in its own way with the revelations of the latest WikiLeaks information dump. Danny just returned from a trip to Iran, and joins us in studio to discuss his experiences, what he learned from everyday people on the ground, and what U.S. politicians like Lindsay Graham are missing.
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President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and handled wrong from the start. Fletcher joins us from Washington, D.C. via Skype to talk about the "end" of the war, Glenn Beck's march on Washington, and the growing popular resistance to the rhetoric from the Right. Fear-mongering and Islamophobia have returned to the headlines and the TV stations in the US, and recently here in New York a cab driver, Ahmed Sharif, was violently attacked by a passenger who asked if he was Muslim. Nine years after 9/11, why are the culture wars once again an issue for the Right? As Glenn Beck appropriates the rhetoric and actions of the Civil Rights movement and rumors continue to fly about President Obama's religion, we talk to Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and Lee Fang from Think Progress about the resurgence of xenophobia and fear, and the corporations that back it. Finally, Laura notes the best way to fight Tea Party voters is to empower previously disenfranchised people to vote as well.
GRITtv: The F Word: Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters
Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were in the mix? In a country where 131 million people voted in the 2008 presidential election, a few million more voters sprinkled across the states, just might make a difference. In a handful of swing states, voting rights groups have sued and won voting rights for hundreds of thousands of low-income people, two-thirds of them women, in the last few years. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Is Yemen the New Front in the "War On Terror"?
Suddenly newspapers and cable news shows are talking about Yemen as the newest site for Al Qaeda. Yemeni authorities have been ramping up attacks against militants, with U.S. aid, and after the failed attempt to bring down a U.S.-bound airplane over Christmas, the rhetoric has just grown more incendiary. John McCain said, "The government of Yemen is going to need our help in combating Al-Qaeda. There needs to be significant effort made at improving their economy." So what's really going on? Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani, a political analyst, spoke to us from Sana'a, Yemen, and then Michael Bronner, investigative journalist and Vanity Fair contributor, and Christoph Wilcke, Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division, join us in studio to discuss the situation further.
GRITtv: On The Street: New Yorkers on Obama One Year Later
GRITtv's Natalia Ospina and Sophie Gore-Browne hit the streets to talk to New Yorkers about the anniversary of Obama's election and what it means for them, one year later. Are they disappointed, pleased, still hopeful?
GRITtv: Our Internet, Not Theirs
Internet illiterate John McCain has introduced legislation that would allow corporations, not citizens, to control access to the Net. Obama has spoken about the importance of Net Neutrality, but can we count on him to fight for our right to the Web? We here at GRITtv wouldn't be able to do what we do without a free and open Internet, so today we're discussing Net Neutrality with Timothy Karr of Free Press, Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge, and Karlos Schmieder of the Center for Media Justice.
