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Bennis Pt3: India and Pakistan and other regional players must be part of the solution to Afgan warBennis Pt3: India and Pakistan and other regional players must be part of the solution... more
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Phyllis Bennis Pt2: Afghan people must fight the Taliban and the warlords, US occupation makes it worsePhyllis Bennis Pt2: Afghan people must fight the Taliban and the warlords, US... more
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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama said that an economy is judged by the reach of its prosperity. But what will it take to expand that reach--little steps or big? We'll talk with political scientists David Korten, Benjamin Barber and Elizabeth Reynoso.
Then, GRITtv meets up with documentary filmmaker and producer Yoruba Richen and her mother, professor, playwright, and civil rights activist Aishah Rahman. They traveled to Washington DC for President Barack Obama's inauguration, and we spoke with them on Martin Luther King Day at the Lincoln Memorial.
Closing out the program, we speak with Middle East analyst Phyllis Bennis and get her take on Obama's first phone call to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Given Abbas' waning poll numbers, the recent, yet tenuous, ceasefire in Gaza, and the Israeli troop withdrawal, Bennis assesses the situation going forward.
Thanks to Elizabeth Press for video in this show.On Tuesday, President Barack Obama said that an economy is judged by the reach of its... more
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On his first day in office Barack Obama made a round of phone calls to key players in the Middle East. At the same time, Israel and Hamas have declared unilateral ceasefires and Israel has agreed to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. GRITtv spoke to Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, in Washington, DC about US policy in the Middle East under Obama. Bennis is the author of Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.On his first day in office Barack Obama made a round of phone calls to key players in... more
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Haggai Matar, an Israeli refusenik arrested on Friday at a vigil outside of an Israeli air force base from which pilots were leaving to bomb Gaza, says that as a young man he felt he had no choice but to refuse serving in the IDF. He had seen the occupation first hand, the checkpoints, the land seizures, and settlements. Today, Israelis and Palestinians are protesting the assault on Gaza. Matar says the protests are getting little coverage in the media and that if it is covered at all, the focus is on Arab Israelis not on the efforts to build an effective resistance movement among Jews and Arabs. We spoke to Matar at a demonstration in Tel Aviv.
Also joining us are Ann Wright, a retired US Army Colonel who publicly resigned from the State Department in opposition to the Iraq War and Ora Wise, co-founder of the Israel/Palestine Education Project. Wright says that there are over 35 US servicemen and women who have been court martialed for refusing to serve in Iraq. Wise, who has been an active organizer within the Jewish American community for years, says that we cannot wait for corporate media to educate people. Planning for nationwide protests are happening today and to find out more about what you can do visit the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, American Jews for a Just Peace, and United For Peace and Justice.
We also speak with Phyllis Bennis, director of The New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of many books including Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer. Finally, as the economy worsens we speak to the authors of a new book on how the rich are taking our common inheritance and whether Obama’s stimulus plan is the right solution. Lew Daly, a Senior Fellow at Demos, and Gar Alperovitz, a professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland are the authors of Unjust Desserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back.Haggai Matar, an Israeli refusenik arrested on Friday at a vigil outside of an Israeli... more
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According to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli Defense Forces were instructed to prepare for an aerial assault and ground invasion of Gaza six months ago, even as they were negotiating a ceasefire.
The story begins: "Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public - all these stood behind the Israel Defense Forces "Cast Lead" operation against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, which began Saturday morning."
Phyllis Bennis, director of The New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of many books including Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, says that this fact alone belies Israel's claim that the war in Gaza is a direct response to Hamas rocket fire. Bennis says that the war has much more to do with Israeli and US politics than with stopping Hamas rockets and that their hope is to finish the operation by the time Barack Obama is inaugurated. President elect Obama finally broke his silence yesterday deploring the loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel. He said that, "starting at the beginning of our administration, we’re going to engage effectively and consistently in trying to resolve the conflict in the Middle East."According to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli Defense Forces were... more
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