Obama

Katrina vanden Heuval, editor and founder of The Nation
magazine, discusses the role that progressive social movements can play in the
2012 elections.

Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford was one of the earliest and most outspoken critics of Barack Obama from the Left and inside the Black Community. A year into Obama's turn, how does Ford assess the Black community's relationship to the President?

The veteran social movement organizer and editor of The Black Commentator discusses with host Eric Mann President Obama's record after one year office and how social movements should engage moving forward.

A former field organizer with Obama for America and a journalist who recently profiled 30 young veterans of the Obama campaign discuss where is Obama's army now and what do they think of Obama the President after one year?

The Director of the San Diego-based Just Transition Alliance, just returned from a US grassroots environmental and climate justice delegation to Copenhagen, breaks down why the deal brokered by President Obama in the 11th hour is really no deal at all. What opportunities lie ahead for social movements and government fighting for climate justice?

The Director of Veterans for Peace and a national leader in United for Peace and Justice respond to Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan and discuss grassroots and inside-the-beltway strategies for stopping the US war machine.

Two distinguished commentators on Afghanistan break down the internal dynamics of Afghan politics, the history of US-Afghan relations pre- and post-invasion, political relations between Afghanistan and its neighbors, and the pro-war and anti-war forces in the US.