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GRITtv: Rethink Afghanistan: Eikenberry Memos
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry cabled his concerns about a troop increase to Obama months ago, and the New York Times recently released the full text of the memos. In this video from Brave New Films' Rethink Afghanistan series, Daniel Ellsberg, Matthew Hoh, and other analysts look at Eikenberry's words and explain their concerns.
Email this pageGRITtv: Exporting Corruption to Afghanistan
The media in the U.S. like to refer to the corrupt government in Afghanistan, but new reports from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) say that about three-quarters of its active corruption investigations involve Westerners. Who's really corrupt? Thanks to Brave New Films for the video.
GRITtv: Robert Greenwald: Can The U.S. Rethink Afghanistan?
The spotlight is on Afghanistan, but are we asking the right questions? Even though the declining popularity of the war has been widely cited, very few are talking about withdrawal or seriously rethinking the U.S. role in the region. That is unless you turn to the independent press. Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has released several installments of his series, "Rethink Afghanistan," over the last several months calling for a different kind of dialogue. The film opens as a full-length feature in NY and Washington, D.C. this week.
GRITtv: October 5, 2009
The spotlight is on Afghanistan, but are we asking the right questions? Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has released several installments of his series, Rethink Afghanistan, over the last several months calling for a different kind of dialogue. What is social capital? And can it save your career? Juliette Powell, author of "33 Million People in the Room," has some answers. And a commentary from Janet Raiffa, a recruiting agent who lost her job in March. (Thanks to Cassidy Friedman and MoveOn.org for video.)
GRITtv: Brave New Films Presents Rethink Afghanistan Part 6: Security
GRITtv: The F Word: Olbermann Says There's No Deal
Keith Olbermann wrote to me apropos my F Word on Monday. Following news of a corporation-brokered truce between MSNBC and FOX, I'd written that while the two networks pose as divided - and play up social divides for ratings - they actually stand united when it comes to corporate profits. According to a New York Times report, General Electric, which owns MSNBC, reined in their host Keith Olbermann as part of a deal to call off Bill O'Reilly's questioning of GE's business. A notable example of corporate interests trumping ratings - several commentators thought - myself included. But Olbermann, while he doesn't deny there was a peacemaking summit of CEOs -- wrote to me Tuesday that there never was/is/nor shall be any deal. And on his first appearance after the Times story ran, he went after the Times and Bill O And Rupert Murdoch - CEO of Fox's corporate parent, News Corp.
GRITtv: Brave New Films: Rethink Afghanistan
The only thing faster than Obama ratcheting up the war against Afghanistan is Robert Greenwald ratcheting up his "Rethink Afghanistan" project where he talks to all the experts -from Afghan civilians to U.S. soldiers- about the need to rethink exactly why we're going to war there, and if, just maybe, we shouldn't be. Take a look.
