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Lessons for the President on the Art of Diplomacy

Mark Lamster | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: European Painters, President, President Obama, Belgian Painters, Belgium, Politics, Flanders, New Books, Obama, Barack Obama, Painting, Art, Peter Paul Rubens, Books, Painters, Rubens, Books News
Mark Lamster

The painter Peter Paul Rubens has a good deal in common with Barack Obama, and the Old Master's life offers lessons that the president might well find instructive.

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Belgium Day Care Rampage Leaves 3 Dead, 10 Wounded

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Belgium Attacker Bicycle, Flanders Attack, Europe, Belgium Day Care, Belgium Attacker, Belgium Day Care Attack, Flanders, Flanders Day Care, Belgium, World News

DENDERMONDE, Belgium — A young man with a gruesomely painted black-and-white face went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbin...

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Vanity Fair Misses the Point: It's not McCain's Physique -- It's his Politics!

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Flanders, Blue Grit, John McCain, New Yorker, Grittv, Vanity Fair, Cindy McCain, Media News
Laura Flanders

If Vanity Fair's cartoonist wanted to flip the New Yorker cover on the GOP, they'd have to portray the media's lies about the candidate. Not the true stuff.

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The New Yorker vs. The Media Channel on GRITtv.org

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Flanders, Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Schechter, Hertzberg, New Yorker Obama Cover, Hendrik Hertzberg, Media News
Laura Flanders

2008-07-16-ny.jpg Information or Inflammation? Hendrik Hertzberg and Danny Schechter went at it on GRITtv.

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No Bail-Out, No Bail! The Mortgage Melt-Down as seen from MIAMI

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Mortgage, Housing, Countrywide, Flanders, Grittv, Foreclosure, Miami, Housing Crisis, Workers, Subprime Mortgages, Media Consolidation, Gentrification, Sustainability, Media News
Laura Flanders

As the Bush administration unveiled a publicly-financed plan to "save" mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, local residents at a town hall fo...

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The F Word: Homes not Hearings

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Live From Main Street, Grittv, Flanders, Gulf Coast, Trailer, Fema, Housing Crisis, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Democrats and Republicans played out a partisan fight Wednesday over who is to blame for housing hurricane victims in toxic trailers. Over one millio...

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The F Word: Celebration in Colombia? Not so Fast

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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Laura Flanders

Over 400 hundred labor organizers have been murdered during the Uribe regime alone. And for all those six years Washington has done nothing.

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The F Word: No Solar and No Clean-up

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Grittv, Flanders, Dod, Solar Energy, Superfund, Epa, Green News
Laura Flanders

I say it's time for some departmental renaming. What do you call a Defense Department that makes you sicker and an environmental protection agency that can't?

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The F Word: Shelling Out for Shell

Laura Flanders | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Total, Bp, Exxon Mobil, Iraq, Oil, Shell Oil, Grittv, Flanders, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had their eye on the first major oil deals in post-Saddam Iraq, guess who got the gig? Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Total and BP!

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