Against the Grain

Against the Grain – May 2, 2006

Endemic corruption and cronyism in the awarding of reconstruction contracts to US firms in Iraq has gotten a fair amount of coverage. Yet similar misdeeds in Afghanistan are less well known. Afghan American investigative journalist Fariba Nawa and CorpWatch’s Pratap Chatterjee discuss a new report that sheds light on profiteering in Afghanistan.


Against the Grain

Against the Grain – April 11, 2006

What is the significance of the student-worker alliance that brought millions out into the streets of France to protest the government’s youth labor law? Rick Woolf talks about the activist victory against neoliberalism. And later Sydney Levy of Media Alliance discusses the concerns his orgaization has with the successful Google/ Earthlink bid to create a … Continued