Libya and the Dilemma of Intervention Libya and the Dilemma of Intervention
How can the US protect Libyans without arousing popular—and well-founded—suspicions of neoimperialism?
Mar 18, 2011 / The Editors
Jonathan Schell: Using Nuclear Energy Is ‘Playing With Fire’ Jonathan Schell: Using Nuclear Energy Is ‘Playing With Fire’
Joining Charlie Rose, Schell explains that nuclear power has no place in a world so vulnerable to widespread disaster.
Mar 18, 2011 / Press Room
Documenting the Obama Administration’s ‘Gitmo in the Heartland’ Documenting the Obama Administration’s ‘Gitmo in the Heartland’
The Obama administration has continued to operate Bush’s legally dubious detention centers for terrorism prisoners, but the opaque practices at these secret prisons deserve...
Mar 18, 2011 / Press Room
Documenting the Obama Administration’s ‘Gitmo in the Heartland’ Documenting the Obama Administration’s ‘Gitmo in the Heartland’
The Obama Administration has continued to operate Bush's legally-dubious detention centers for terrorism prisoners, but the opaque practices at these secret prisons deserve to be ...
Mar 18, 2011 / WNYC
The Breakdown: Why Are Public Pensions ‘Unfunded’? The Breakdown: Why Are Public Pensions ‘Unfunded’?
In their assault on public sector workers, Republicans continue to point to so-called "unfunded" pension programs as a symbol of broken government. But how did the pensions become ...
Mar 18, 2011 / Chris Hayes
On Political Talk Shows, Liberals Can’t Finish Their— On Political Talk Shows, Liberals Can’t Finish Their—
Is there data proving that liberals get interrupted more on political television? And who's fault is that?
Mar 18, 2011 / Ari Melber
Aristide on the Way Home: Presidential Candidate Threatens to Kill Him and Perform Necro-Sodomy Aristide on the Way Home: Presidential Candidate Threatens to Kill Him and Perform Necro-Sodomy
US has failed to keep Aristide from returning to Haiti. Expected to arrive tonight, he already has received a death threat—from a major candidate in this Sunday’s...
Mar 18, 2011 / Greg Grandin
US Uncut Adds Verizon and FedEx to its Target List US Uncut Adds Verizon and FedEx to its Target List
The multibillion-dollar corporations pay lower tax rates than you do, and US Uncut is going to hold them accountable.
Mar 18, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
America’s Not Broke, Wisconsin’s Not Broke; We’re Just Wasting Money on War America’s Not Broke, Wisconsin’s Not Broke; We’re Just Wasting Money on War
“There is simply no rationale for continuing American involvement with no end in sight, rising deaths for civilians and our brave soldiers, declining public sentiment, and se...
Mar 18, 2011 / John Nichols
What Raymond Davis’s Ransom is Worth What Raymond Davis’s Ransom is Worth
Last week GRITtv spoke to Dave Lindorff about Raymond Davis, the CIA employee held in Pakistan, accused of shooting two Pakistani civilians. Davis has been released after a reporte...
Mar 17, 2011 / Laura Flanders