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Occupiers? Indignados? Democracy's in Trouble
October 12, 2011Occupiers? Indignados? They're all evidence of the failure of western democracy, argues economist Loretta Napoleoni, author of Maonomics.Mike Papantonio, Maude Barlow & Shannon Biggs, and Investing at Home
April 20, 2011"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.The F Word: US Lack of Investment is Destabilizing the World
April 20, 2011Here in the US all we seem to hear about is deficits and debt. Yet even the countries that hold a lot of our debt are concerned for our lack of investment at home.Lena Taylor & Rosa Clemente, Make Wall Street Pay, and Philanthro-Feudalism
March 8, 2011"There is a time to fight and a time to unite, and now is the time to unite. If we divide now when we are trying to win the war, then I think we have fallen right into the divide and conquer mentality," says Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor, still in an undisclosed location outside of her state to delay a vote on Scott Walker's union-busting "budget repair" bill.The F Word: Philanthro-Feudalism is the Future!
March 8, 2011China's new economic plan is a relic of the past. It focusses on raising standards of living. How exotic, how quaint, how old world. When China's leaders unveiled their latest five-year plan recently, they revealed that their focus is on lowering inequality, investing in railroads and highways and hospitals. And expanding domestic demand through income subsidies. Imagine.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.Jeff Kreisler: Watching the Week in News
January 21, 2011President Hu Jintao of China is visiting the U.S., but regardless of what happens, Americans will no doubt keep buying Chinese consumer goods. And while Republicans grandstand, Obama's up in the polls--but for how long? And as the GOP candidates for 2012 begin to move and jockey for position, which ones will make it and which ones will be left holding the mic at Fox News?Best of 2010: Sherrod Brown & Richard Wolff & Jeff Madrick
December 31, 2010Finishing up our Best of 2010, we look at our still-broken economy, and get some ideas for fixing it. "People are still looking at and facing too much pain," says Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who joined Bernie Sanders for part of his eight and a half hour speech against giving tax breaks to millionaires. Brown notes that while the compromise which eventually passed gives some short-term help to American workers, but that the economy will not begin to really recover until Washington turns its focus to jobs--and not just any jobs, but reinvigorated manufacturing jobs.Sherrod Brown: Working Families Still Hurting
December 23, 2010"People are still looking at and facing too much pain," says Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who joined Bernie Sanders for part of his eight and a half hour speech against giving tax breaks to millionaires. Brown notes that while the compromise which eventually passed gives some short-term help to American workers, but that the economy will not begin to really recover until Washington turns its focus to jobs--and not just any jobs, but reinvigorated manufacturing jobs.
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