Laura Flanders

WATCH: It's Viral!

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Ben Cohen, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Video, Lee Camp, Laura Flanders, Jim Hightower, Cenk Uygar, It's Viral, Urlesque, Citizens United, Jerry Greenfield, Comedy News

With opposition to Citizens United growing steadily in recent weeks, comedian Lee Camp decided to do his part to help the keep the movement cool and r...

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Green News Report: April 7, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Co2, House of Representatives, Natural Disasters, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Electricity, Radioactivity, Fossil Fuels, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Contamination, Iaea, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Utilities, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Transocean, Energy Efficiency, Pennsylvania, Japan Earthquake, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Toxic Waste, Japan, BP Oil Spill, Wind Power, India, Christiana Figueres, Oklahoma, Paul Ryan, Clean Energy Jobs, American Legislative Exchange Council, Budget, Earthquake, Barack Obama, Senate, Laura Flanders, Green Jobs, Antibiotic Resistance, Drought, Water Contamination, Texas, Koch Brothers, Water, Smart Grid, Chamber of Commerce, Extreme Weather, Smart Meter, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: More U.S....

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Weekly Audit: Hostile Takeover Threat Spurs Concessions from Michigan Unions

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sexism, EARTHA JANE MELZER, Sally Kohn, Chris Hayes, Pension, Union, Detroit, Laura Flanders, YES! MAGAZINES, Jamelle Bouie, Supreme Court, Paul Abowd, Dean Baker, Shock Doctrine, Grittv, EMERGENCY MANAGER, Tapped, Wal-Mart, Wage, American Prospect, In These Times, Scott Lemieux, Michigan Messenger, Discrimination, Michigan, Class Action, JENNY LEE, Police, Farm, Labor, Fire, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Michigan's new Emergency Manager Law is already forcing major concessions from unions. The law gives t...

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The F Word: Crushing Workers in Wisconsin Has National Effects

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Welfare, Wisconsin, F Word, Madison, Scott Walker, Welfare Reform, Tommy Thompson, Grit Tv, The F Word, Laura Flanders, Bill Clinton, Milwaukee, Bradley Foundation, #solidarityWI, Grittv, Unions, Politics News

So that's what they mean by from welfare to work. First you force the poorest Americans into the workforce, then you go after their bargaining power. Wisconsin is only the eye of this storm.

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The F Word: Obama Should Be Ashamed of His Budget

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Poverty, Madison, Economy, Deficits, Budget, War, Jacob Hacker, Jobs, Obama, Eisenhower, US, Grit Tv, President, America, Infrastructure, Unemployment, Wall Street, Laura Flanders, Spending, Crisis, Grittv, Cuts, Politics News

While around 22 million Americans are looking for work, domestic spending will be at its lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower? We should be ashamed to let our president get away with this.

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The F Word: Corruption and Inequality Begin at Home

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Corruption, West Virginia, Massey Energy, Class War, Judges, Massey, Economy, Crony Capitalism, Grit Tv, Coal, Injustice, Judicial, Laura Flanders, Don Blankenship, Glenn Greenwald, Grittv, Revolution, Inequality, Politics News

The U.S. media seems to have found a new language for the economy. There's been talk of "solidarity" and even "class war." The only problem? They're talking about Egypt.

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Weekly Pulse: New Anti-Choice Bill Suggests More #DearJohn Letters Needed

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Socialized Medicine, Vietnamese, Choice, Hmo, #DearJohn, CAROL JOFFE, NAIL SALON, Grittv, SOLVENT, Toxin, National Radio Project, SIMEON TALLEY, Rape, SADY DOYLE, Pregnancy, hr3, California, Epidemiology, Insurance, Cancer, Campus Progress, Laura Flanders, Mandate, RH Reality Check, Health, Women, Brie Cadman, Abortion, Forcible Rape, NOREEN EVANS, Republican, change.org, Immigrant, TIGERBEATDOWN, Home News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Health advocate Eesha Pandit and blogger Sady Doyle join GRITtv host Laura Flanders for a discussion...

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The F Word: Media Miss the Al Jazeera Story

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Detention, Free Speech TV, Frank Rich, Broadcast, Mosaic, Media, Uprising, Grit Tv, Linktv, Television, Big Noise Films, Cable, Laura Flanders, Cairo, Grittv, Al Jazeera, Independent Media, Detained, Media News

One of the biggest stories of the past few weeks has been the story of Americans discovering Al Jazeera English. It shouldn't have been so hard. As ...

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The F Word: Setting the Story Straight on Snow "Slowdown"

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Post, F Word, Workers, Media, Grit Tv, Snowstorm, Transportation, Sanitation, Fox News, The F Word, Government Workers, Labor, Laura Flanders, Snow, State Workers, Union Busting, New York Times, Grittv, Union, Snowpocalypse, New York News

It's worth noting: the story of a union-staged work slowdown after New York's first major snowstorm of the year has been debunked pretty thoroughly by now.

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The F Word: Protests in Cairo Forgotten by Obama

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, F Word, Twitter, Street, Tunisia, US, Grit Tv, Dictatorship, Facebook, America, The F Word, London, Internet, State of the Union, Illiteracy, Barack Obama, Laura Flanders, Cairo, United States, Protest, Grittv, Mubarak, Action, World News

Why did the president not have anything to say about Egypt -- where thousands of people, inspired by Tunisia, were taking to the streets to protest their own repressive government -- another one the US has backed for years?

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The F Word: No Solutions at State of the Union

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Heidi Shierholz, Ge, Competitiveness, Class War, Socialism, Employment, Regulation, Recession, Jobs, Obama, Grit Tv, Democrats, Public Workers, Nafta, Government, State of the Union, Politics, Unemployment, Trade, Laura Flanders, Hoover, Jeffrey Immelt, Grittv, Bipartisanship, National Journal, Sotu 2011, Politics News

Obama will deliver his take on the State of the Union tonight, and while Congress has bickered about bipartisan seating, it doesn't matter where anyon...

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The F Word: Obama's Deregulation Dance With Wall Street

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donohue, Banks, Chamber of Commerce, Laura Flanders, Loaded Chamber, Campaign Finance, Regulation, Deregulation, Grittv, Obama, Bankers, Wall Street Journal, Grit Tv, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

With a new Republican Congress, it was only a matter of time before some politician vowed to get rid of regulations. We just didn't think it would be Barack Obama.

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The F Word: Widening Concern for Public Workers

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabrielle Giffords, Martin Luther King, Workers, Tucson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Daniel Hernandez, King, Public Servant, Grit Tv, Public Workers, Labor, Laura Flanders, Assassin, Memphis, Grittv, Assassinated, Union, Politics News

It's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day on Monday, the holiday that celebrates the Nobel Peace Prize winner's birth and life. The Rev. King wasn't assass...

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The F Word: The Violence of the Broken Economy

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Pay, Wages, Retirement, Economy, Wage, Tucson, Recession, Jobs, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Tax Rate, Grit Tv, Rick Hayduk, Labor, Unemployment, Laura Flanders, Loughner, Grittv, New York Times, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Unions, American Dream, Politics News

A lot of people have talked this week about violent political rhetoric bringing the U.S. to a fever pitch, but there's something else keeping people o...

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The F Word: Choosing Care for Haiti, Somalia, Ourselves

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabrielle Giffords, Militia, Attack, Hawa Abdi, Laura Flanders, Salvador Reza, Marie St. Cyr, Grittv, Earthquake, Somalia, Arizona, Grit Tv, Haiti, World News

If Haitians and Somalis, people with what most of us would call nothing, can take a stand and protect what they hold dear, how about us?

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Weekly Audit: We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kari Lydersen, Gop, Recovery, Congress, Jobs, The Nation, Republican, Grittv, Unemployment, Public Sector, Private, Mother Jones, Chrystia Freeland, Elite, Tim Fernholtz, Bond, Andy Kroll, Class, American Prospect, Darrell Issa, Pension, Build America Bonds, Wages, Retirement, Public, Recession, Laura Flanders, Devin Nunes, Working in These Times, Paul Ryan, Atlantic Monthly, Class Warfare, Eric Alterman, Inequality, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Meet the new global elite. They're pretty much the same as the old global elite, only richer and more ...

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The F Word: Leaving the People Out of the Debate

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Poverty, Budget, Workers, Jobs, Obama, Immigration, Media, Edrie Irvine, Tv, Grit Tv, Arpaio, Fair, The F Word, Television, Unemployed, Unemployment, Laura Flanders, Spending, Grittv, Immigrant, News, Republicans, Politics News

It's not just the unemployed we don't tend to see on U.S. TV. Take public workers. They're in the news every day, but it's not actually them. It's people talking about them.

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The F Word: Constitutional Lessons For the New Congress

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Left, Obama, Congress, Conservative, Dissent, Grit Tv, Thomas Jefferson, Reagan, Progressive, Laura Flanders, Hoover, John Boehner, Lew Daly, Grittv, Right, Small Government, Constitution, John Adams, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News

The Republican lawmakers who read the Constitution out loud as their very first act in the new Congress better bask in their Tea Party glow -- because they're not going to feel the love from Constitutional scholars.

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The F Word: Public Workers Getting Snowed

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Scott Walker, Queens, Brooklyn, Workers, Broadway, Dave Johnson, Grit Tv, Public Workers, Center for American Progress, Andrew Cuomo, Sanitation, The F Word, Bloomberg, Labor, Blizzard, Laura Flanders, Plow, Snow, John Boehner, Trains, Grittv, Transit, Union, Public Services, New York News

Non-New Yorkers gloat beware -- the Big Apple's storm offers just a taste of the problems that are likely to be coming your way.

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The F Word: Ask, Tell, Don't Kill

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Bradley Manning, Afghanistan, War, Don\?T Ask Don\?T Tell, Dan Choi, Iraq, Navy, Daniel Ellsberg, Grit Tv, Wikileaks, The F Word, Army, Military, Laura Flanders, Service, Air Force, Chris Hedges, Protest, Grittv, Arrest, Politics News

Last Thursday, 131 demonstrators -- many of them veterans -- were arrested outside of the White House, protesting war.

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The F Word: Forgetting Bradley Manning

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rape, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Iraq, Daniel Ellsberg, Grit Tv, Wikileaks, Sexual Assault, Laura Flanders, Glenn Greenwald, Jill Filipovic, Bail, Grittv, Vaughan Smith, Collateral Murder, Leaks, Politics News

Today, Julian Assange is out of jail. But let's not forget that without Bradley Manning and many others like him, Assange and WikiLeaks and all our new-found public information would be as in the dark as Manning is right now.

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The F Word: Harry Potter and the Bailed-Out Banks

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Britain, Banks, England, Education, Bailouts, Rbs, Bankers, US, Grit Tv, Banksters, London, Laura Flanders, Tax Cuts, Grittv, Harry Potter, Business News

While students in London spend hours in the cold protesting tuition fees, RBS, a bank that took a huge government bailout, throws a party commemorating Harry Potter. It'd be funny except it's exactly what just happened.

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The F Word: Remembering Why WikiLeaks Matters

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arrests, Personal Democracy Forum, Afghanistan, War, Web, Ddos, Iraq, Media, Grit Tv, Wikileaks, Douglas Rushkoff, Internet, Deanna Zandt, Laura Flanders, Anonymous, Distributed Denial of Service, Grittv, Technology, Yemen Al Qaeda, Politics News

It can be sexy to talk about digital direct action, but tech activists and political activists, especially in the US, bring a tremendous amount of privilege to the table.

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Weekly Audit: Sanders Filibusters Tax Cuts, Electrifies the Left

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laura Flanders, Video, Grittv, Senator, Vermont, Tax Cut, Filibuster, Bernie Sanders, Politics News

Weekly Audit: Sanders Filibusters Tax Cuts, Electrifies the LeftBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-des...

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The F Word: Attacks On Government Workers in Tax Deal

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Public Employees, Build America Bonds, F Word, Bankruptcy, States, Budget, Compromise, Grit Tv, Bruce Krasting, The F Word, Laura Flanders, Tax Cut, Grittv, Yves Smith, James Pethokoukis, Unions, Bill Fletcher, Bernie Sanders, Politics News

A little-noticed provision in the "tax cut compromise" we discussed today with Bernie Sanders might well drain the states' coffers.

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