Stories by Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders is the host of GRITtv, Mon-Thursday on Free Speech TV (Dish Network chn. 9315) and streaming at GRITtv.org.
"Go to where the middle is." It's the conventional wisdom -- and it's bunk.
Posted on Apr 11, 2009
At noon to 2 pm EST (9 am to 11 am PST), join Laura Flanders and her many guests, including AlterNet's Steven Rosenfeld and Liliana Segura.
Posted on Nov 4, 2008
Will the media test her on substance or let her play "Ms. Congeniality?" It is up to the public to see through the fact-free diet we're being fed.
Posted on Sep 5, 2008
"Live from Main Street" brings audiences the local perspective on critical national issues.
Posted on Jun 13, 2008
Already, the word "change" has gone from a bumper slogan to a fact-based phenomenon.
Posted on Feb 8, 2008
Some feminists say they are voting for Clinton because she's good on gender. But the record shows that Clinton leaves many women out in the cold.
Posted on Feb 5, 2008
If Barack Obama's South Carolina victory was a really "black" thing, how can you explain his popularity in Butte, Montana?
Posted on Jan 30, 2008
Khaled Hosseini's moving novel and film hits on all the right themes for a tale about the West and Afghanistan.
Posted on Dec 15, 2007
Democrats will keep getting attacked on sexuality, marriage and abortion for as long as they dodge the discussion.
Posted on Apr 9, 2007
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Reporting live from the Hip Hop Political Convention in Chicago -- Robert 'Biko' Baker and Khari Mosely on youth successes; women in Hip Hop; neo-soul musician Anasa Troutman.
Posted on Jul 26, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: House renewal of Voting Rights Act; victory on Guantanamo torture; why force in the Middle East won't work; singer-songwriter Chip Taylor.
Posted on Jul 21, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Voices of peace; human rights in Gaza; Mexico's elections; "Troops Home Fast," and NY Senatorial candidate Jonathan Tasini.
Posted on Jul 12, 2006
This week on RadioNation: Progressive Democrat Marcy Winograd in California; Reagan's lawyer on Bush; celebrating 50 years of "Howl."
Posted on Jun 7, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: A special Memorial Day report from a blue town in red Texas; rancher Liz Lambert; Fran Sage and Don Dowdey; plus, Adam Bork performs.
Posted on May 31, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Confronting John McCain; The Pentagon as the 'House of War;' media rountable with Bruce Shapiro and Firedoglake's Christy Hardin Smith; plus Canadian folk star Penny Lang.
Posted on May 24, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Cindy Sheehan and Margot Kidder; W and Bonds breaking laws; Charlie Savage and Dave Zirin; plus, 'The Motherhood Manifesto.'
Posted on May 17, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Ray McGovern; immigration debates; weekly media roundtable and a tribute to Jane Jacobs.
Posted on May 10, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Latin America's new left leadership; Bush's economic invasions; plus jazz as protest music.
Posted on May 3, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: The fastest-growing cities in the world, plus environmentalists on 9/11's killer smoke.
Posted on Apr 26, 2006
Michael Scherer of Salon.com on the Torturer-in-Chief; Michael T. Klare on Iran; Iranian composer and vocalist Sussan Deyhim with cultural commentary.
Posted on Apr 19, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Tom Hayden on republishing 'The Port Huron Statement,' and Native American women's healthcare advocate Charon Asetoyer runs for State Senate in South Dakota.
Posted on Apr 11, 2006
This week in RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Guest host Ned Sublette in New Orleans, reporting on civil rights; plus Bob Fitch and David Moberg on labor, and 'American Theocracy' author Kevin Phillps.
Posted on Apr 6, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Pine Ridge Reservation's Cecelia Fire Thunder takes on the South Dakota abortion ban; Esther Kaplan, Silya J.A. Talvi and Lisa Jervis on right-wing media's war on women; Kathryn Schultz on poverty and pollution.
Posted on Mar 29, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Alternatives to war, featuring Kaveh Ehsani, Alexander Cockburn, Christian Parenti, Kristina Borjesson and Run DMC's Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels.
Posted on Mar 23, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: The "America is Purple" tour continues in Montana! Pioneer Dorothy Eck, candidate Jon Tester, and Gov. Schweizer all talk to Laura; plus Margot Kidder, Montana Human Rights Network, Montana Women Vote and much more.
Posted on Mar 14, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Iraqi women on the war, Bush's bungled nuclear ambitions, the Supreme Court's election case, and the Smithsonian's new hip-hop collection.
Posted on Mar 7, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: A new strategy for the culture wars -- in South Dakota, Planned Parenthood's Kate Looby and others. From Chicago: progressive Congressional candidate Christine Cegelis and Jim Dean.
Posted on Mar 1, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Live from Nevada! State progressives making serious headway with unions, coalition-building and increasing tax revenues.
Posted on Feb 22, 2006
This week on RadioNation with Laura Flanders: The latest news on Ohio politics, Nashville's most political CD of 2005, and are blogs the newest old-boys network?
Posted on Feb 15, 2006
This week in RadioNation with Laura Flanders: Gulf Coast recovery; rebuilding democracy with Francis Moore Lappe; media roundtable with Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Michelle Garcia; Joel Dorn on 'Gospel Music.'
Posted on Feb 8, 2006
The war protests in Washington showed that public outrage is a pretty good organizing principle -- but not enough to gel a popular movement.
Posted on Sep 26, 2005
A former detainee talks openly about what he saw and heard, from abuse of prisoners to offensive treatment of the Qu'ran. And it couldn't be further from what the Bush administration is telling us.
Posted on May 24, 2005
North Korea may be firing missiles, but when it comes to nuclear proliferation and eroding international controls, the biggest bully on the block right now is in Washington.
Posted on May 4, 2005
Will John Ashcroft be able to stop the democracy movement that's stirring with his powers under Help America Act? Not likely.
Posted on Nov 2, 2004
From ending the Equal Pay Initiative to championing the Partial Birth Abortion Act, Bush's record speaks for itself.
Posted on Oct 25, 2004
Republicans have announced that they're dredging up some dusty old law to send thousands of recruits to polling places in Ohio on Nov. 2 to challenge the qualifications of Americans as they try to cast their votes.
Posted on Oct 25, 2004
The story we have been hearing for years about demonstrators performing acts of violence at demonstrations doesn't fit with the facts.
Posted on Aug 26, 2004
Singer Rickie Lee Jones finds artistic motivation in the fight against the Patriot Act.
Posted on Jul 16, 2004
An insidious ad campaign tries to dress Bush and his policies in female-friendly clothing. It's not pretty.
Posted on Jun 28, 2004
Culture warrior Lynne Cheney, who says she is more conservative than her husband Dick, delights the right -- but her past indicates that she has a knack for fitting herself and her opinions to suit the opportunities of her time.
Posted on May 4, 2004
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