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  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: The Devil You Know

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, NOVEMBER 05 2007 12:43 PM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: The Devil You Know

    Over the weekend President Pervez Musharraf declared a State of Emergency in Pakistan, instituting martial law, suspending the constitution, and firing the chief justice of the supreme court. Police have also begun rounding up scores of lawyers, judges, and activists, and the state has taken control of many of the private television stations and raided newspaper offices. This puts the Bush administration in a nearly impossible bind: oppose a Musharraf dictatorship...

  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: The Rhetoric of Iran

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, OCTOBER 29 2007 02:38 AM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: The Rhetoric of Iran

    Ratchet it up? Turn it down? With such a jumbled mess of real concerns and uncertain threats characterizing the current situation in Iran, it's difficult to know exactly what level of frenzied rhetoric will cultivate the best outcome. We aim to provide a helpful consumer's guide in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.

  • TPMtv: '08 Roundup: Episode #3

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, OCTOBER 25 2007 09:36 AM | PERMALINK

    '08 Roundup: Episode #3

    Did the Obama campaign's effort to embrace a 'new politics' lead to his collapse in the polls? We take a look in our third weekly campaign 2008 roundup.

  • TPMtv: Rudy's Four Horsemen

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, OCTOBER 16 2007 10:06 AM | PERMALINK

    Rudy's Four Horsemen

    Maybe you love Rudy or maybe you hate him. But whatever you may think of him, check out his foreign policy team, because that's the key to knowing what to expect from a Rudy presidency. Especially for candidates with little or no foreign policy experience of their own, the folks advising the candidate are key. And Rudy's team is made up, more or less, of all the guys who were too nuts or too extreme to make the cut with George W. Bush. If you really, really want to go to war with...

  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Talking About Spreading War

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, OCTOBER 15 2007 09:31 AM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: Talking About Spreading War

    Getting bored with Iraq? Nothing ever changes? Well, how about war with Iran? The drumbeat for military action against Iran has been a low rumble building gradually throughout the year. We gauge just how high the pitch has risen in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.

  • TPMtv: A Chat with Barnett Rubin, Part I

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, OCTOBER 02 2007 09:54 AM | PERMALINK

    A Chat with Barnett Rubin, Part I

    A few weeks ago Dr. Barnett Rubin, one of the world's premier Afghanistan experts at NYU, created a stir with a series of blog posts about signs the Bush administration might be gearing up for a military campaign against Iran. Last week I interviewed Rubin about the Bush administration's war talk against Iran and I asked him, Is there really any evidence that Iran is helping arm the Taliban, as the Bush administration keeps claiming?

  • TPMtv: Lieberman's Bomb Iran Bill, Part II

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 26 2007 03:29 PM | PERMALINK

    Lieberman's Bomb Iran Bill, Part II

    In yesterday's episode of TPMtv we brought you news of the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, the backdoor use of force resolution against Iran. They just voted on the amendment in the Senate, and in today's episode we bring you up to speed on what went down ...

  • TPMtv: Lieberman's Bomb Iran Bill

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 25 2007 12:47 PM | PERMALINK

    Lieberman's Bomb Iran Bill

    Did you hear about the War on Iran Authorization bill the Senate is going to vote on perhaps as early as today? No, that's not how it's getting billed. But that's what the 'Kyl-Lieberman' amendment is. In fact, the supporters of going to war against Iran are using exactly same strategy with this amendment that they did to lay the ground work for the Iraq War.

  • TPMtv: A Chat with Juan Cole

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 18 2007 11:20 AM | PERMALINK

    A Chat with Juan Cole

    Recently TPMtv connected with Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan, and writer of the blog Informed Comment and the new book Napoleon's Egypt. We asked Juan about what's really going on in al Anbar province (which the administration persistently cites as a glimmering example of the success of the surge), whether the Sunnis are ready to concede national reconciliation, and what might happen if and when we ever...

  • TPMtv: John McCain vs. The Video Tape

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 17 2007 12:50 PM | PERMALINK

    John McCain vs. The Video Tape

    2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) went on Meet the Press Sunday to debate the war in Iraq with Senator John Kerry (D-MA). And what a show it was. With McCain's deluge of devastating points and dizzying rhetorical takedowns, Kerry was clearly no match. But the real contest was the debate between McCain and videographic evidence of statements made previously in the week. We match the two toe-to-toe, and let the viewer decide the ultimate debate...