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Title: Winter Soldier
Runtime: 6:43
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: In three days of wrenching public testimony in Washington, DC, Iraq War veterans shared the horrors of war.

Pegeen Hanrahan: "Use our cities more effectively"

Title: Pegeen Hanrahan: "Use our cities more effectively"
Runtime: 5:54
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Hanrahan what she thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan sees her city of Gainesville, Florida, as one that needs to build up, not out. And with Florida's skyrocketing population growth -- the state's population is projected to grow from the current 18 million to 36 million by 2060 -- Florida will soon have to listen to Mayor Hanrahan and grow in more sustainable ways.

"The only hope for doing it [growing sustainably] in any sort of way that doesn't decimate the natural environment is to use our cities more effectively and to build more like a Boston or a Washington or a New York than an Orlando, quite frankly."

She points out that over 730 mayors have signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, showing that cities are on the frontline of climate change in spite of the federal government's refusal to a...

Title: The Working-Class Vote in Ohio
Runtime: 4:17
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are paying lip service to "bread and butter" issues in the crucial state of Ohio. Who's message is resonating? Nation reporter JoAnn Wypijewski spent a week in Ohio talking to the state's blue-collar voters. Will the race turn on Iraq, NAFTA and healthcare, or on race and gender?

See: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/wypijewski

Title: Hedges Vs. Hitchens
Runtime: 3:30
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: In his forthcoming book, I Don't Believe in Atheists, Nation contributor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges takes on the so-called "new atheists" movement, led by writers and scholars like Christopher Hitchens. In this VideoNation preview, Hedges lays out a scathing critique of both religious and secular fundamentalists, arguing that their ideological extremes aren't so different after all, and are quite dangerous for society.

Title: Wanted: More White Babies
Runtime: 2:31
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: Christian conservatives are predicting a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe. But writer Kathryn Joyce, author of Missing: The Right Babies in this week's Nation Magazine, argues that the campaign to promote Europe's "Demographic Winter" is really a xenophobic effort to confront rising Muslim populations, and to export the U.S. culture wars to a new battlefield.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/joyce

Clip courtesy of http://www.demographicwinter.com

Title: Superdelegates 101
Runtime: 2:46
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: In the wake of Super Tuesday, the Clinton/Obama faceoff is more confusing than ever. But an "X" factor could change the shape of the race: So-called "superdelegates," Democratic party insiders who are the free agents of the primary season. Could the delegates throw the convention into disarray? The Nation political correspondent Ari Berman, expanding on his recent piece about the delegate race, breaks down who these "superdelegates" are, and what they mean to the Clinton/Obama race.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/berman

Title: The Choice
Runtime: 8:01
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: On the cover of The Nation this week, DC Editor Christopher Hayes makes his case for Barack Obama:

http://www.thenation.com/article/choice

In this VideoNation feature, he explains why he thinks Barack Obama is the better choice to build a real progressive majority.

Title: Mayor Sheila Dixon: "Wars in our city"
Runtime: 3:25
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Dixon what she thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

Sheila Dixon of Baltimore is the most recently elected Mayor we interviewed. But she already has her priorities straight -- tackling crime, guns and the flow of drugs into her inner city.

"I want to see one of the candidates come up with a comprehensive plan to eliminate the tide of drugs coming into our country," the Mayor told us. "I mean, we have wars here in our city. We should be making strides in that area, but its something I never hear [the presidential candidates] talk about."

She's right, of course. The '08 presidential race has distinctly eschewed issues of inner city violence and drug trade. Perhaps it's a blessing that we haven't had Willie Horton-style attack ads that demonize urban people of color; but we also haven't had any substantive talk abou...

Mayor R.T. Rybak: "A community organizer in the White House"

Title: Mayor R.T. Rybak: "A community organizer in the White House"
Runtime: 5:50
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Rybak what he thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

"I hope when the presidential candidates talk about cities, they stop thinking about us as basketcases, and think instead of the potential of cities to turn this country around."

That's Mayor R.T. Rybak's urban agenda in a nutshell. It's time, he argues, for federal policymakers to get over the outdated notion that cities are a drag on America. Instead, whether you're talking about a better workforce, a stronger economy or a healthier environment, "urban America is the future of America."

For Rybak, that philosophy also means valuing the diversity and inclusivity of cities. "I was elected right after 9/11," said Rybak, "when there were a lot of messages coming out of Washington that attacked immigrants, that attacked the gay and lesbian community. But you can har...

Title: Mayor Shirley Franklin: "Invest or die"
Runtime: 5:10
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Franklin what she thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

"Infrastructure isn't sexy."

So says Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta. In her far-ranging MayorTV interview, she was the first to admit that aquaducts, sewage facilities and desalination plants don't exactly grab headlines.

That is, until the worst drought in 100 years hit the Southeast.

With reports that Atlanta has only three months of water left, Mayor Franklin is dealing with an infrastructure problem of biblical proportions. Naturally, "It all comes back to water, water, water -- everywhere," says Mayor Franklin. "Water is my top 10 priorities. Or top 20."

Washington, meanwhile, has compounded the drought by drastically cutting their investment in water infrastructure. "In the 1970s, the federal government gave cities 75 ce...

Mayor Rocky Anderson: "These disastrous Bush years"

Title: Mayor Rocky Anderson: "These disastrous Bush years"
Runtime: 3:57
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Anderson what he thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

It's easy for Americans to be abstractly frustrated by the war. We know that Iraq is drawing away resources and attention. We spend $200 million a day in Iraq -- so much money it's hard to understand the implications. It's hard to know what that means for our daily lives.

Not for Rocky Anderson.

Anderson is the headline-grabbing mayor of Salt Lake City. He made international news by organizing an anti-war protest against George W. Bush in 2005, and later calling for Bush's impeachment. (This in the middle of Utah, which voted stronger for Bush in 2004 than any other state.) Every day, he sees what happens when the nation's coffers are devoted to war, not the cities in which 80% of Americans live.

"This is a president who has not only entirely...

Mayor Bob Duffy: "Like a boxer on one knee"

Title: Mayor Bob Duffy: "Like a boxer on one knee"
Runtime: 5:04
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Duffy what he thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

Bob Duffy is a tough guy with a tough job. He's the mayor of Rochester, NY, a city of 208,000 grappling with some tough statistics. A few stand outs:

- 39% high school graduation rate
- 57% of adults read at 6th grade level or below
- 38% child poverty rate, the highest in the state
- a population decrease from 332,000 in the 50s to 208,000 today

And then there's the stat that underlies all the other stats -- a 41% drop in manufacturing jobs over the last few decades.

Rochester is not a big, glamorous city like LA or Miami. But the story of Rochester is one that must be told. Mayor Duffy speaks incredibly eloquently for the hundreds of small and mid-sized America cities that grew up around a strong manufacturing base, and ha...

Mayor Villaraigosa: "Washington's failure is criminal"

Title: Mayor Villaraigosa: "Washington's failure is criminal"
Runtime: 6:07
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Villaraigosa what he thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

When asked how the federal government is treating his city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had no hesitation.

"Whether it's poverty, work and opportunity, bolstering the middle class, housing or infrastructure," Mayor Villaraigosa said, "it is absolutely criminal that the federal government has failed to address these issues."

Villaraigosa has long been associated with policies that strengthen the middle class. He's insistent that the government, both local and federal, help people move up from poverty. Not exactly the Bush administration's primary agenda; so no shock that Villaraigosa doesn't get the funding or support he'd like.

But even on homeland security -- the Bush administration's signature issue -- Villaraigosa says the fe...

Mayor Manny Diaz: "Not the hot button issues"

Title: Mayor Manny Diaz: "Not the hot button issues"
Runtime: 4:26
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Diaz what he thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

Of all the mayors we interviewed for MayorTV, Manny Diaz of Miami went the furthest in critiquing America's pollsters, pundits and media outlets for their role in driving the presidential campaigns.

"The media and pollsters don't focus on urban issues," Mayor Diaz told us. "They focus on the war, abortion, gay rights -- things that, quite frankly, for those of us in the trenches, are not exactly the hot button issues."

According to Diaz, the candidates don't even deserve much of the blame.

"When you start the electoral process this early, and the polling is done every day, the hot button issues ... are not [even] the ones that the candidates want ... but the ones that the media want."

Diaz's list of the "real" issues reads like a...

Mayor John Hickenlooper: "Cities are America's laboratories"

Title: Mayor John Hickenlooper: "Cities are America's laboratories"
Runtime: 3:52
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Hickenlooper what he thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is the consumate anti-politician. Before his election in 2003, "Hick" ran several successful restaurants and other businesses. He buck partisan gridlock and constantly pits pragmatism against politics. So its no wonder that he's calling on Presidential candidates to do the same.

"Too often, national political figures are trying to create political strife," Hickenlooper said. "But the way we're going to succeed in this country is getting back to a collaborative approach. And that means a lot less partisanship."

In practice, how does that play out? The answer, according to this former entrepreneur, is local experimentation. "Down here where the rubber meets the road, we're fixing potholes, we're making cities safer, we're sol...

Mayor Tom Menino: "As cities go, so goes America"

Title: Mayor Tom Menino: "As cities go, so goes America"
Runtime: 3:12
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: MayorTV is a challenge from America's Mayors to 2008 candidates: start talking about cities! MayorTV asked Mayor Menino what he thought a national agenda for cities should look like.

Tom Menino has been the mayor of Boston forever. Well, since 1993, which in city politics is forever. He's seen a lot change in urban policy, and if you ask him, the history lesson is clear.

"When we invested in our cities, this country did extremely well," Mayor Menino told us. Other mayors we interviewed reflected this theme again and again. Call it the "As cities go, so goes America" theory. It makes sense. With 80% of America's population and almost 90% of our economic output, there's hardly anything to America but cities.

So the inverse of Menino's quote is also true -- when our nation stops investing in cities, America suffers. Of all the Mayors we interviewed, Menino hit that point with the most clarity. "Because Washington has no urban agenda, the cities...

Mayor Byron Brown: "The Presidential process hurts cities"

Title: Mayor Byron Brown: "The Presidential process hurts cities"
Runtime: 6:25
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: Does it matter that the presidential nominating process is dominated by rural states? Does it affect the way urban issues are discussed on the campaign trail? Mayor Byron Brown thinks so.

"The nomination process certainly has a negative effect on the coverage of cities," says the first African-American mayor of Buffalo, NY. "While presidential candidates are raising substantial amounts of money in cities, they are spending it in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ... It disproportionately puts the focus on [rural] areas of the country where the majority of our citizenry do not live."

It's a sensible, almost self-evident point. Mayor Brown also called out a race / class dynamic that shapes the way presidential candidates talk about cities. To many Americans, "urban" is code for poor people and minorities -- not often popular topics in the heartland.

"If you look at the riots that took place in the 60s, and the flight from our cities, sinc...

Jesse Jackson: Stopping the Subprime Tsunami, Campaign 2008

Title: Jesse Jackson: Stopping the Subprime Tsunami, Campaign 2008
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: America's poor -- particularly the black and brown people in America's inner cities -- are caught in the grip of an economic crisis "many times bigger than the Savings and Loan scandal." In a visit with The Nation, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urges action, calling for a "Resolution Trust Corporation" and action by the leading Democratic presidential contenders to face this crisis before it gets any worse. In this VideoNation commentary, Rev. Jackson lays out the problem and his vision for change, starting with a December 10th march on Wall Street.

For more information, visit the Rainbow Coalition online: http://www.rainbowpush.org/

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Cost of War
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel argues that Democratic candidates need to bring back the war as a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic, as well as human, costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Juneau, Alaska: Veterans for Peace Rally

Title: Juneau, Alaska: Veterans for Peace Rally
Runtime: 8:41
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: When a cruise ship full of Nation supporters dropped anchor in Juneau, Alaska last August, Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel gathered for a rally with members of the Juneau Veterans for Peace and other advocates for peace. In this cut from The Rocky Documentary: Blue Man/Red State, filmmaker Rhea Gavry and Douglas Monroe captured the warmth and passion of people of conscience united in a common cause.

Title: Sudan's 'Lost Boys' Return Home
Runtime: 7:39
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: Three young men who fled the fighting in South Sudan as boys to grow up and be educated in three different US cities return home. In an emotional journey, they reunite with with loved ones, grieve over those who have died, and to offer the skills they acquired in America to help a struggling people.

Jen Marlowe's reporting in South Sudan, published in The Nation magazine, was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute Investigative Fund. A film excerpt airs October 26 on PBS's Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071105/marlowe
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=33
http://foreignexchange.tv/

Title: Calling Blackwater to Account
Runtime: 11:38
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: In this October 11 Democracy Now interview, Susan Burke of the Center for Constitutional Reform and Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explain details of a wrongful death lawsuit filed in US district court by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in a September 16 shooting in Baghdad.

Title: Christian Parenti: Congo Diary
Runtime: 6:33
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: First come the roads, and big logging companies take a few hardwoods; then come poachers, settlers and agro firms. Before you know it, deforestation picks up speed. Nation correspondent Christian Parenti journeys deep into the heart of the Congo Basin woodlands to see how a massive logging boom is decimating the world's second-largest tropical forest.

Title: Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism
Runtime: 8:36
Date posted: 19 years ago
Description: Nation columnist Naomi Klein explores a key argument from her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: After 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined notion of evil. Read more in her 2005 Nation column "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."

Title: Watch Your (Fo)odometer!
Runtime: 3:10
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Watch Your (Fo)odometer!

Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.

Title: Bringing the War Home
Runtime: 3:10
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Holding imaginary guns and roughing up volunteers posing as Iraqi civilians, http://www.ivaw.org Iraq Veterans Against the War brought the realities of the Iraq debacle to the streets of New York, in a Memorial Day protest that turned Times Square, Union Square and the World Trade Center site into combat zones. This VideoNation report captures the drama and anger of street theater that is all too real.

Title: Blackwater: Shadow Army
Runtime: 4:26
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: The Nation's Jeremy Scahill describes the rise of Blackwater USA, the world's most powerful mercenary army.

Title: CPAC 2007: The Unauthorized Documentary
Runtime: 7:19
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: The Nation's Max Blumenthal takes us on a revealing (and at times shocking) tour of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Featuring Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Grover Norquist, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo, and many more.

GOP 'Find the Illegal Immigrant' Game Catches Flak

Title: GOP 'Find the Illegal Immigrant' Game Catches Flak
Runtime: 5:29
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: College Republicans staged a tasteless game at NYU and hundreds of students showed up to oppose them.

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Time to Focus on the Real Issues

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: Time to Focus on the Real Issues
Runtime: 1:59
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel urges the candidates for president to stop the trivial political mudslinging and focus on the real issues: getting out of Iraq and repairing our decimated economy.

Title: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Runtime: 3:02
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: A sneak peak at the HBO documentary, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: Deja vu Iran
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Nation Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel argues that Congress must act firmly to rein in the Bush Administration's rising hostilities with Iran: Nullify the war powers authority it granted to the Administration and prohibit Bush form widening the war.

Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Message to Congress

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Message to Congress
Runtime: 1:50
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Nation Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel tells Congress to stop the bickering and bring the troops home.

Title: Bill Moyers: For America's Sake
Runtime: 5:04
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: A selection from Bill Moyers' address at the NYU Kimmel Center on December 12, 2006.

Title: John Nichols: The Fair Trade Democrats
Runtime: 5:05
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: John Nichols interviews newly-elected Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and explains that the free trade era in Congress has come to a halt.

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel Responds to Bush
Runtime: 3:03
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel responds to President Bush's address calling for an escalation to the war in Iraq.

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Bush Isn't Listening

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: Bush Isn't Listening
Runtime: 5:03
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel responds to President Bush's address calling for an escalation to the war in Iraq.

Title: Chavez's Citizen Diplomacy
Runtime: 6:25
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: The Nation's Liza Featherstone reports on Citgo's discounted oil program to the South Bronx of New York.

Title: 500 Miles to Babylon: Trailer
Runtime: 5:02
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Not Your Average Iraq Movie

Title: What Election?
Runtime: 3:31
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: The Nation's Sam Graham-Felsen visits Villanova University on election day and finds that most students are disengaged from politics.

Title: The 'Burbs Go Blue
Runtime: 7:54
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: The Nation's Ari Berman reports on the changing mood of the country from the swing districts of the Philadelphia suburbs. Independents and Republicans are fed up and demanding change from the newly elected Democrats.

Taliban Rising: Christian Parenti in Afghanistan

Title: Taliban Rising: Christian Parenti in Afghanistan
Runtime: 6:01
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Nation reporter Christian Parenti takes us on a tour of the "Other War." He finds that the Taliban has not only regrouped, but is gaining a surprising amount of sympathy from ordinary Afghanis, who are frustrated with the US occupation.

Title: David Corn: The Selling of the War
Runtime: 2:48
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: David Corn, co-author of Hubris, discusses the Bush administration's false rationale for the war in Iraq and new revelations in the Plamegate affair on CNN's Reliable Source.

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: Iran and the UN
Runtime: 1:41
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel argues for the right of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit the UN.

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Just Response
Runtime: 3:25
Date posted: 20 years ago
Description: On ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Katrina vanden Heuvel discusses America's response to 9/11, five years later.

Title: Nation TV Spot
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 21 years ago

Title: Israel's Dangerous War in Lebanon
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 21 years ago
Description: The Nation's Eric Alterman appears on 'Larry King Live' August 1, 2006 to explain why US Jews should oppose Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

© 2006 Cable News Network LP, LLLP.

Title: Ehren Watada's War Against the War
Runtime: 2:26
Date posted: 21 years ago
Description: In a remarkable, media-savvy protest, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has refused orders to go to Iraq, claiming the war and the occupation violate the Constitution, international law and Army regulations.

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