politics

Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Sri Lanka to see how the Tamil Tigers, one of the world’s most lethal and influential terrorist organizations, were finally defeated. (22:33 min)

Matt Welch, editor of the libertarian magazine Reason.com, discusses health care with Paul Jay at The RealNews Network. (19 min)

RealNews discusses the state of U.S. journalism after decades of corporate consolidation then explores a possible golden future if the profession takes on a non-profit model, like the BBC or CBC. (19:30 min, 2 segments)

RealNews reports - Porter: “The attack on Marja is meant to prepare Americans to accept negotiations with Taliban.” (10:30 min)

After seven years of war and months of negotiations, the Sudanese government and Darfur’s most powerful rebel group have signed a ceasefire deal, and mediators hope it will lead to a broader and more permanent peace agreement. (3 min)

euronew.net reports on how young Greeks are paying the price for the huge debts their parent’s generation left them. (8 min)

Just weeks after the earthquake that took more than 200,000 lives, Avi Lewis finds that debates over how to rebuild Haiti are already underway. (22:35 min)

The indigenous communities of Ecuador are standing up and demanding Chevron-Texaco to clean up its toxic wastewater legacy in the worse environmental disaster since Chernobyl. (28 min)