Alex sits down with independent president and political activist Ralph Nader. Alex talks with Ralph about the lack of difference between Barack Obama and John mccain, the violations of the Constitution by the current administration, the futility of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the reasons Nader is running for president for a fifth time.
Wrong about Mother's Day! Wiki: "During 1938-1945, the Mother's Day holiday (Muttertag) was sponsored and promoted by the Nazism as one of the means to create a pure "Aryan race". The government chose mothers that had more than 4 children and investigated them, their political ideas, their friends and their family to make sure that they were racially and morally fit. Women who engaged in "unfemenine" behaviour like smoking or doing poor housekeeping would be ineligible. The women who passed the selection process would receive a Mother's Cross (Mutterkreuz). This was a popular custom and it helped promote loyalty among some German women, even although it brought few material advantages and most of it was empty praise. Among other Mother's Day ideas, the government promoted the death of your sons in battle as the highest embodiment of patriotic motherhood. The holiday is now celebrated in the second Sunday of May, in a manner similar to other nearby European countries." "As You Like It" by Shakespeare "The Return of the Soldier" by Rebecca West The Wordsworth poem i cited: "the world is too much with us" www.youtube.com which i memorized for an english class once as a counter-balance, what the effects of those "dark satanic mills" is: "The Unknown Citizen" by WH Auden www.youtube.com
Like most Americans, Alison Weir, the editor of a small-town newspaper in California, knew very little about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, other than what she had gleaned from the evening news or newspaper headlines. As a journalist, her attention was on issues much closer to home. Neither a muslim nor a jew, she nevertheless became more curious about the topic of the Palestinian uprising. And as she researched it, she became increasingly suspicious that the American media were not telling us the whole story. Months later, she traveled to the occupied territories as an independent journalist to find out for herself what the US media seemed to be omitting. Three months after returning from Palestine, Alison Weir quit her job and founded If Americans Knew, an organization dedicated to quantifying the ways in which the American media was misinforming the public about the conflict. Ms. Weir explains her group's methodology, analyzes the data, and reports on the key findings. Producers: Paul Chek and John Odam (2006) Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check website for details.
Iran's human rights record has been criticised in a new report by Amnesty International. It highlights what it describes as exceptionally high levels of violence, used in the aftermath of June's disputed presidential election. It says that human rights violations are as bad as at any time in the past 20 years, and urges the Iranian leadership to ensure a full, independent investigation of all alleged abuses. As Anita mcnaught reports, some of those abused have had to flee Iran in fear of their safety.