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The Obama Syndrome: New President, Same Mistakes - A Live Interview
October 2010
Tariq Ali

Historian and critic Tariq Ali traces the continuity of errors between Bush and Obama in their Middle East and South Asia policy.

Poverty Rising
September 2010
Saul Landau

As the empire flails in unsuccessful efforts to control 'strategic areas' abroad, its internal politics have devolved into 'The Unreality Game'.

Revenge of the Deficit-Haters
August 2010
Saul Landau

Ironically, the loudest complainers about paying taxes become the most eloquent advocates of spending more on the military.

Dual Crises of Globalization: Arizona and the Gulf of Mexico
June 2010
Jeb Sprague and Cesar Rodriguez

From the plumes of corporate crude in the Gulf of Mexico, to the assault on migrants in Arizona, the U.S. appears locked in a continual state of emergency

The new right history
June 2010
Saul Landau

The US Texas State Board of Education approved a new social studies
curriculum to reflect American History as it should have happened.

On the road again
February 2009
Saul Landau

“Jesus Lives” screamed the giant billboard on I-80, some 20 miles east of Lovelock, Nevada. At the bottom of the sign appears the sponsor: adsforGod.org, an “organization whose only purpose is to advertise for The only True Living God whose only begotten Son is Jesus The Christ.”

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The next step: organising after Obama
January 2009
Phyllis Bennis
 Laura Flanders talks to Phyllis Bennis and Judith LeBlanc at the Obama Inauguration

GRITtv continues its inauguration coverage live from D.C. We take a look at this historic moment and what organizers will...

An Obama nightmare
January 2009
Saul Landau

My wish for Obama’s New Year’s resolutions: Lose the empire! Stop giving military aid and special treatment to Israel; demand Israel behave responsibly under international laws; get out of Iraq and Afghanistan -- quickly.

Yes, Obama has repeatedly pledged to expand the U.S. role in...

To bail or not to bail…
November 2008
Saul Landau
To bail, or not to bail: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageously low gas mileage,
Or to take measures against a sea of warming vehicles,
And by opposing end them?
They have not born the whips...
Old axioms unsuitable for new needs
November 2008
Saul Landau
“Wandering between two worlds,
one dead, the other powerless to be born.”--Matthew Arnold

The time for Obama and his “change” phrases will soon get tested.

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