Helen Thomas on Al Jazeera [UPDATE & BUMPED]

[originally posted on 3/21/11]

i'm watching riz khan interviewing helen thomas right now on al jazeera english... it's very good... you can watch here... i will post the youtube video as soon as it's put up...

[UPDATE]

i've been looking and looking for the al jazeera youtube clip and i can't come up with it... what i did manage to find is this clip from the real news in which she says pretty much what i saw her say on al jazeera... i'll keep looking for the al jazeera clip...

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A YouTube current affairs sampler

sam seder does some "man on the street" interviews on the never-ending effort to give social security to wall street, one of the most patently disgusting efforts imaginable but totally in keeping with our greedy, super-rich elites...



riz khan at al jazeera explores the situation of women in afghanistan...



and, so as not to get all caught up in nothing but serious shit (after all this is the last few weeks of the summer vacation season, right?), here's elon james riffing on "nigger times 11"...

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The U.S. has 1% of its population in jail and a number of those have been wrongfully convicted

more good stuff from al jazeera...

For the first time in history, around one per cent of the adult population of the US is in prison. Even more disturbing than this unfortunate landmark is the number who have been wrongly convicted.

i gotta tell ya, i'm becoming a convert...

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