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
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
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
Libya and the Dilemma of Intervention Libya and the Dilemma of Intervention
No-fly zones have, at best, a mixed record as a form of humanitarian intervention, and instituting one over Libya will do little to halt Qaddafi’s military advantages.
Mar 17, 2011 / The Editors
Clinton Promises to Bomb Libya, Calls Qaddafi ‘Creature’ Clinton Promises to Bomb Libya, Calls Qaddafi ‘Creature’
Obama caves in to pressure from neocons, liberal interventionists.
Mar 17, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Taking the ‘War’ Out of America’s Air Wars Taking the ‘War’ Out of America’s Air Wars
These days, we need a new set of terms to explain what US air power actually does.
Mar 17, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Deliberately, Cynically and Steadfastly: Obama Heads South as Aristide Moves North? Deliberately, Cynically and Steadfastly: Obama Heads South as Aristide Moves North?
As Obama heads for Brazil, he might cross flight paths with Aristide, soon expected to return to Haiti
Mar 17, 2011 / Greg Grandin
Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America? Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America?
America's nuclear power plants are poorly managed and regulated, and it's time they were taken out of commission.
Mar 17, 2011 / Press Room