http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/surge 2008-05-16T22:32:57Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/36251-cbs-exposes-hillary-clinton-lying-about-her-bosnia-trip 2008-05-16T22:32:57Z americansunite <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xvLw9Q72D7Y&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xvLw9Q72D7Y&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/36251-cbs-exposes-hillary-clinton-lying-about-her-bosnia-trip"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40661" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>CBS reveals what really happend with Hillary Clinton in Bosnia</p> </div> <a href="/blog/36251-cbs-exposes-hillary-clinton-lying-about-her-bosnia-trip">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/36250-hillary-clinton-apparently-didn-t-lie-about-bosnia-after-all 2008-05-16T22:32:57Z americansunite <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XnLS6rOp0Cc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XnLS6rOp0Cc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/36250-hillary-clinton-apparently-didn-t-lie-about-bosnia-after-all"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40660" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>HILLARY CLINTON just released the actual video of what happened in Bosnia. Our sincerest apologies as we attacked her character too soon without actual video evidence. We were sleep deprived that day. SO SORRY HILLARY!</p> </div> <a href="/blog/36250-hillary-clinton-apparently-didn-t-lie-about-bosnia-after-all">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35183-president-bush-speech-on-way-forward-in-iraq 2008-05-08T15:31:40Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xaiGPpOH__Q&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xaiGPpOH__Q&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35183-president-bush-speech-on-way-forward-in-iraq"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38693" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>President George W. Bush, April 10, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35183-president-bush-speech-on-way-forward-in-iraq">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35015-obama-questions-petraeus-and-crocker 2008-05-15T09:32:19Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4yG83rSm6fY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4yG83rSm6fY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35015-obama-questions-petraeus-and-crocker"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38487" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Foreign Relations Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35015-obama-questions-petraeus-and-crocker">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35016-obama-apply-measured-but-increased-pressure-on-the-iraqis 2008-05-15T09:32:19Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8jxWxg95LrI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8jxWxg95LrI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35016-obama-apply-measured-but-increased-pressure-on-the-iraqis"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38488" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Foreign Relations Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35016-obama-apply-measured-but-increased-pressure-on-the-iraqis">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35014-voinovich-the-american-people-have-had-it-up-to-here 2008-05-16T03:29:23Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZsJkHebt4fc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZsJkHebt4fc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35014-voinovich-the-american-people-have-had-it-up-to-here"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38486" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Foreign Relations Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35014-voinovich-the-american-people-have-had-it-up-to-here">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34990-lieberman-great-war-or-the-greatest-war 2008-05-14T21:30:57Z ZP Heller <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s36lp8EOlFI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s36lp8EOlFI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34990-lieberman-great-war-or-the-greatest-war"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38461" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>At General David Petraeus&#39;s testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Joe Lieberman had the nerve to say that he wishes we could come to an agreement on the facts about all the &quot;progress&quot; we&#39;ve made in Iraq.&nbsp; Well, Joe, try <a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/81572/">these facts</a> from <em>The Nation</em>&#39;s Tom Engelhardt on for size:</p><blockquote><strong>The situation in Iraq is getting worse:</strong> Don&#39;t believe anyone who says otherwise. The surge-ified, &quot;less violent&quot; Iraq the general has presided over so confidently is, in fact, a chaotic, violent tinderbox of city states, proliferating militias armed to the teeth, competing regions armed to the teeth, and competing religious factions armed to the teeth. Worse yet, under Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the U.S. has been the great proliferator. It has armed and funded close to 100,000 Sunnis organized into militias reportedly intent on someday destroying &quot;the Iranians&quot; (i.e. the Maliki government). It has also supported Shiite militias (aka the Iraqi army). In Basra, it took sides in a churning Shiite civil war. As Nir Rosen summed matters up in a typically <a href="http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20080421&amp;amp;s=rosen">brilliant piece</a> in the <em>Nation</em>, Baghdad today is but a set of &quot;fiefdoms run by warlords and militiamen,&quot; a pattern the rest of the country emulates. &quot;The Bush administration,&quot; he adds, &quot;and the U.S. military have stopped talking of Iraq as a grand project of nation-building, and the U.S. media have dutifully done the same.&quot; Meanwhile, in the little noticed north, an Arab/Kurdish civil war over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, and possibly Mosul as well, is brewing. This, <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD03Ak01.html">reports</a> Pepe Escobar of <em>Asia Times</em>, could be explosive. Think nightmare. <br /></blockquote></p> </div> <a href="/blog/34990-lieberman-great-war-or-the-greatest-war">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34991-petraeus-take-2-is-america-safer-because-of-iraq-war 2008-05-14T15:31:02Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jn5Vy3rC6YU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jn5Vy3rC6YU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34991-petraeus-take-2-is-america-safer-because-of-iraq-war"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38462" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Armed Services Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34991-petraeus-take-2-is-america-safer-because-of-iraq-war">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34989-lindsey-graham-you-guys-are-the-best 2008-05-14T21:30:57Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MANYipYg8jg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MANYipYg8jg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34989-lindsey-graham-you-guys-are-the-best"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38460" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Armed Services Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34989-lindsey-graham-you-guys-are-the-best">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34988-hillary-clinton-petraeus-testimony-opening-statement 2008-05-15T03:31:05Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/au-y6LZVLBg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/au-y6LZVLBg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34988-hillary-clinton-petraeus-testimony-opening-statement"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38459" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Armed Services Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34988-hillary-clinton-petraeus-testimony-opening-statement">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34987-clinton-questions-crocker-and-petraeus 2008-05-15T03:31:08Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/49IUcXGJatU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/49IUcXGJatU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34987-clinton-questions-crocker-and-petraeus"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38458" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Armed Services Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34987-clinton-questions-crocker-and-petraeus">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34986-petraeus-haven-t-seen-any-lights-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel 2008-05-15T03:31:11Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dihSro8bddw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dihSro8bddw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34986-petraeus-haven-t-seen-any-lights-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38457" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Armed Services Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34986-petraeus-haven-t-seen-any-lights-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34975-levin-so-when-are-the-troops-coming-home 2008-05-14T03:30:01Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iSE_MCHZpXQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iSE_MCHZpXQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34975-levin-so-when-are-the-troops-coming-home"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38443" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Armed Services Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34975-levin-so-when-are-the-troops-coming-home">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34974-kennedy-asks-crocker-about-cheney-s-role-in-basra-offensive 2008-05-14T03:30:23Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MC9nQkfCqes&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MC9nQkfCqes&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34974-kennedy-asks-crocker-about-cheney-s-role-in-basra-offensive"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38442" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus Testimony <br />Senate Armed Services Committee <br />April 8, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34974-kennedy-asks-crocker-about-cheney-s-role-in-basra-offensive">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/29650-report-critical-of-army-in-iraq-suppressed 2008-05-07T21:30:01Z The Real News <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w8UqyDsiS58&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w8UqyDsiS58&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/29650-report-critical-of-army-in-iraq-suppressed"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/31905" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080201YT">therealnews.com</a> <br />US army suppresses Rand report</p> <p>Monday February 18th, 2008</p> <p>Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/29650-report-critical-of-army-in-iraq-suppressed">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/24475-another-sad-bush-anniversary-guantanamo 2008-05-16T09:32:14Z cliffschecter <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D5E3w7ME6Fs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D5E3w7ME6Fs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/24475-another-sad-bush-anniversary-guantanamo"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/26490" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>Yesterday, we got to &quot;celebrate&quot; the ill-advised surge in Iraq, or as they called it back in the Vietnam days, <em><strong>escalation</strong></em>. </p><p>While a couple of pipe-heads like new NY Times golden boy Bill Kristol and his BFFs McCain and Lieberman prtattle on about how this was a success--because now only fewer American troops are getting killed for there to be no political solution as opposed to say, NONE--the truth is that this war has been a disaster for U.S. foreign policy any way you slice it.</p><p>Which brings me to Guantanomo. Today marks the 6th Anniversary of when our democracy was officially put in shackles under cover of the night. Six years since an American gulag was created 90 miles off our shore. No, not hyperbole, or the plot to the next sci-fi thriller, but our present reality.</p><p>How ironic, don&#39;t you think, that our justification all those years for trying to take out Castro was that we were attempting to bring freedom to Cuba. Instead, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/10/54423/2973/27/434242">we brought a &quot;black site</a>.&quot;:</p><ol><li> Fifty-five percent (55%) of the detainees are not determined to have committed any hostile acts against the United States or its coalition allies.</li></ol> <ol><li> Only 8% of the detainees were characterized as al Qaeda fighters. Of the remaining detainees, 40% have no definitive connection with al Qaeda at all and 18% are have no definitive affiliation with either al Qaeda or the Taliban.</li></ol><p>Not to mention the extra-legal manner from which all its&nbsp; &quot;residents&quot; benefit, like being declared &quot;enemy combatants&quot; so they cannot challenge their detention. Thank you Bush-style &quot;democracy!&quot; </p><p>Please do something about this. Namely, try and help get the Harkin Bill passed to <strong>Shut It Down</strong>. The ACLU has much more on this, <a href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/closeguantanamo.html">go to their site</a> and find out how you can help end one of the many Bush assaults on our republic. </p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/24475-another-sad-bush-anniversary-guantanamo">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/24411-the-surge-is-a-failure 2008-01-20T14:23:37Z John Ehrenfeld <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/24411-the-surge-is-a-failure"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/26417" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>How utterly preposterous is it to hear the right-wing, war loving Faux News kool-aid drinkers claim that the Democrats don&#39;t want to talk about Iraq anymore. Let&#39;s talk about it.</p><p>The stated goal of the surge that was sold to the American people and Congress was never to &quot;temporarily reduce violence by a short-term infusion of 30,000 US troops&quot;. It was to provide an environment within which the Iraqi government would meet certain benchmarks and achieve some semblance of political reconciliation and stability. That has not taken place and by any empirical means of measurement the surge has been an abject failure. And<strong> soldiers and civillians are still dying, nine Americans in the last two days.</strong> </p>Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader and D-Nev said this just today, <blockquote><em>No amount of White House spin can hide the fact that the escalation&#39;s chief objective of political reconciliation remains unmet, Iraqis have not demonstrated any readiness to stand up and take responsibility for their own country, and 2007 was the most lethal year yet for American troops.</em><em> </em></blockquote><strong>What the surge has achieved, is the continuance of a steady stream of blood money for the corporate war profiteers who dream that we will be in Iraq for years and years to come. That&#39;s what the surge was really all about. </strong>Hopefully, after November 2008 that diabolical greed-lust will come to an end and the American people will take back their country.&nbsp;</p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/24318-inside-story-britain-s-diplomatic-surge-08jan08-pt-2 2008-05-16T09:34:13Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b34KP3Oja0c&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b34KP3Oja0c&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/24318-inside-story-britain-s-diplomatic-surge-08jan08-pt-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/26316" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Britain announces a plan to tackle radical movements in the Middle East and South Asia.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/24318-inside-story-britain-s-diplomatic-surge-08jan08-pt-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/24317-inside-story-britain-s-diplomatic-surge-08jan08-pt-1 2008-05-16T09:34:00Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xrejIh_5Cvs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xrejIh_5Cvs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/24317-inside-story-britain-s-diplomatic-surge-08jan08-pt-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/26315" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Britain announces a plan to tackle radical movements in the Middle East and South Asia.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/24317-inside-story-britain-s-diplomatic-surge-08jan08-pt-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/23282-john-edwards-in-ames-iowa-this-is-very-personal-for-me 2008-05-08T09:31:02Z cliffschecter <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kFuO9AOOHJs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kFuO9AOOHJs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/23282-john-edwards-in-ames-iowa-this-is-very-personal-for-me"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/24876" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>This is a great speech by Edwards, who is apparently experiencing a &quot;surge&quot; right now in Iowa. </p><p>Let&#39;s face it, when corporate protectors like <a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/12/31/121825/35">Stu Rothenberg</a>--so happy in his gated city--attack you for being too populist, you&#39;re doing something right (yes, populism also failed that &quot;crazy&quot; man named Franklin Roosevelt who spoke of &quot;economic royalists,&quot; as it equally doomed Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, LBJ, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Oh yeah and that guy who won the popular vote, Al Gore).</p><p>I&#39;d pay good money if people like old Stu would just once pick up a history book before opening their ignorant traps. In any case, Edwards talks about, in plain language, what we have spoken about in our <a href="http://warongreed.org/">War On Greed</a> campaign. There are no deals to be made with the Henry Kravises of the world...</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/23282-john-edwards-in-ames-iowa-this-is-very-personal-for-me">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/21215-quiz-1-iraq 2008-04-20T02:36:15Z DJK <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/21215-quiz-1-iraq"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/20936" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This is a short quiz. It has a few simple questions to sample your opinions on certain widely known subjects. This quiz is designed for republicans and conservatives, but democrats, progressives, and independents are encouraged to take it as well.<br /><br />A point will be awarded if an answer reflects a general knowledge of the subject and does not contain factual inaccuracies. No point will be awarded if the answer does not. A point will be subtracted if the answer consists of a question or a comparison to the actions of an unrelated person and does not directly address the question. <br /><br />Because you probably have not had to take a quiz like this before, I will give you the weekend to work on this. I will do my best to grade them promptly. Participants of every political affiliation are encouraged to take it. This quiz is optional. All questions must be answered if your quiz is to be graded. Please leave your answers in the comments.<br /><br />Ready? Let&#39;s begin. The subject is Iraq. (UPDATED 12-11)<br /><blockquote>1. Do you believe that the Iraq war is vital to the safety of the United States? If so, do you advocate a draft? Why or why not?<br /><br />2. Do you believe that the Iraq war is a just war that the US should continue fighting indefinitely? <br /><br />3. If you answered &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; to question 2, are you currently serving in the military? Why or why not? <br /></blockquote></p> </div> <a href="/blog/21215-quiz-1-iraq">Continue reading</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/20569-americans-more-positive-on-troop-surge 2008-05-16T21:30:03Z Gallup <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ec2rrubOUE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ec2rrubOUE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/20569-americans-more-positive-on-troop-surge"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/20282" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The number of Americans saying the U.S. troop surge in Iraq is making the situation better has increased from 22% in July to 40%; a majority still support a timetable for withdrawal.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/20569-americans-more-positive-on-troop-surge">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/19712-tpmtv-sunday-show-roundup-the-sweet-smell-of-success 2008-05-09T12:39:23Z Veracifier <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kGFuahUNPYg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kGFuahUNPYg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/19712-tpmtv-sunday-show-roundup-the-sweet-smell-of-success"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/19384" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Onward and upward in Iraq? So says John McCain. And Lindsey Graham says the "surge" is probably the most successful counterinsurgency program in the history of the world. But what about political reconciliation? And when do we leave exactly? Catch up on the latest spin in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/19712-tpmtv-sunday-show-roundup-the-sweet-smell-of-success">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/19448-a-conservative-s-critique-of-u-s-foreign-policy 2008-05-05T21:30:17Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cjV1cUJgULo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cjV1cUJgULo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/19448-a-conservative-s-critique-of-u-s-foreign-policy"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/19122" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2007/10/29/Niall_Ferguson_After_the_Bush_Doctrine">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson offers a conservative's critique of U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Niall Ferguson discusses "After the Bush Doctrine: What Next for American Foreign Policy?" This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Fall Retreat 2007.</p> <p>Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.</p> <p>He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK terrestrial broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic), was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004 by Penguin. His latest book is The War of the World, a global history of the Second World War, which was published to critical acclaim in September 2006. He is currently completing a biography of Siegmund Warburg and has recently begun researching a life of Henry Kissinger.</p> <p>A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Niall Ferguson writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times. In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the world's hundred most influential people.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/19448-a-conservative-s-critique-of-u-s-foreign-policy">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/14624-lindsey-graham-gets-poll-numbers-has-change-of-heart 2008-05-11T03:29:18Z youngturks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wfIi9bOWY9o&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wfIi9bOWY9o&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/14624-lindsey-graham-gets-poll-numbers-has-change-of-heart"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/14550" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Lindsey Graham gets poll numbers and changes his stand of Iraq War. Watch the entire show at www.theyoungturks.com</p> </div> <a href="/blog/14624-lindsey-graham-gets-poll-numbers-has-change-of-heart">Watch the video</a>