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Douglas Rushkoff: Internet Freedom, Egypt, and the US
February 3, 2011"If Internet freedoms have to be secured with policy then as far as I'm concerned there are no Internet freedoms," says Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed. He notes that what we've learned from the Internet shutoff in Egypt is that there is too much centralization on the Web, and when people like Joe Lieberman can call Amazon and knock WikiLeaks off their server or convince PayPal not to process their payments anymore, there's too much control.Khaled Fahmy, Benjamin Barber, and Douglas Rushkoff
February 2, 2011"What we are seeing is nothing less than an Egyptian Tiananmen Square," says Khaled Fahmy of American University in Cairo. He watched today as bands of armed men descended on peaceful protesters in Cairo, heading for Tahrir Square. Some of the people, who Fahmy called "thugs" rode through crowds on horseback and camelback, trying to drive them back.JoAnn Wypijewski, Louisiana's Methadone, the Houma Nation and Amazon Empire
July 12, 2010November elections are coming up and democrats around the country are starting to wonder if they can hold onto the House. Author and Nation contributor JoAnn Wypijewski joins us in the studio to describe her on the ground tour of the United States – talking to people, and figuring out the political fabric at stake. Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard claims that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict. Since its launch 15 years ago Amazon has grown to be, by some measure, the largest bookseller in the world. According to its founder Jeff Bezos, this ascent has been achieved by giving customers what they want: convenience, wide choice and low, low prices.Colin Robinson: Amazon Books and Intellectual Compromise
July 12, 2010Since its launch 15 years ago Amazon has grown to be, by some measure, the largest bookseller in the world. According to its founder Jeff Bezos, this ascent has been achieved by giving customers what they want: convenience, wide choice and low, low prices. Of course everyone likes the availability of two million books on the site. And who could complain about discounts of 50% or more on bestsellers? But look beneath the surface and a less rosy picture emerges. It turns out that the way Amazon does business can be seriously damaging for the health of publishers, authors and, yes, those beloved customers too.Antonia Juhasz & Joe Berlinger: Big Oil's Devastation
June 16, 2010"Oil is a messy business, even when it's legal," says filmmaker Joe Berlinger, and we've all seen the effects of that business splashed across front pages and television sets over the last month. But the BP disaster isn't the only mess that Big Oil has caused in the last couple of months, to say nothing of the years and decades past. The newest oil mess to be cleaned up is a Chevron spill in Utah that has flooded a Salt Lake City creek with thousands of gallons from a pipeline with what was described as a "quarter-sized hole" in it.Cary Harrison, Big Oil's Destruction, and Palin Meets Thatcher
June 16, 2010Our politics are all about emotion over intellect, says radio host Cary Harrison. From billionaires winning Republican primaries by pretending to be fighting for the common man to Chevron distributing fans at gay pride events, it certainly seems like something is missing. Common sense? Or is it just the money is stacked to one side? And on a completely different note, just what happened with Gen. Petraeus at that Senate Armed Services Committee hearing?Emergildo Criollo: Chevron, Clean it Up!
March 11, 2010Emergildo Criollo is an indigenous leader from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest. He recorded this message for oil giant Chevron's CEO John Watson: clean up your toxic contamination. In early March 2010, Emergildo traveled from the Amazon to California, to deliver a letter appealing for clean-up, along with 325,000 petitions from supporters in more than 150 countries.Militarizing Haiti, Simon Kashama, and David Paterson's Troubles
March 10, 2010Arun Gupta joins guest host Esther Armah in the studio, along with Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, who just returned from Haiti, to talk about the rebuilding effort underway and how people in the U.S. can help make sure Haiti is rebuilt for the Haitian people.Ecuador to Chevron: Do The Right Thing
February 3, 2010Chevron oil company has contributed for years to devastating environmental damage in Ecuador and the Amazon region. Citizens of Ecuador call on new Chevron CEO John Watson to do the right thing and help clean up the damage his company has caused.Bumbling Buggers, Ben Jealous, and Remembering Howard Zinn
February 2, 2010Yesterday, Laura called our attention to the strange tale of the attempt at bugging Senator Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, noting the stories uncovered by indie reporters connecting the dots between the ACORN sting, the break-in, and funding flowing into universities from the nation's intelligence agencies--as well as right-wing organizations.
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