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Showing videos filed under: economy
Occupy Wall Street Labor March Special Coverage
October 5, 2011If the networks won't bring the protesters into the studio, we're going to bring a broadcast "studio" to the protesters. On Wednesday, October 5, 4-7 pm eastern watch special collaborative coverage of the Occupy Wall St Labor March at http://www.livestream/lauraflandersMichelle Alexander: End The Drug War: Face the New Jim Crow
July 30, 2011The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination that has brought Jim Crow with us into the age of Obama.More Care Not Less!!
July 12, 2011Starting this year an American will turn 65 every eight seconds. (Thank the boomers.) While Barack Obama is calling on Democrats to accept "trimming benefits" for the future's sake, seven hundred people are gathering in Washington at the Hilton today with a very different approach.The (Non-Weiner) News That Matters: Jared Bernstein
June 11, 2011A pivotal moment on the path to economic disaster? Former vice presidential adviser Jared Bernstein talks about why he left the White House and more.Chris Hedges: The World As it Is
May 13, 2011"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out.Chris Hedges, Honeywell Workers, and a special message from Laura
May 12, 2011"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out.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.Bob Herbert: Still Working the Beat of Left-Out People
April 20, 2011"There is a hunger out there for some kind of serious approach to the big issue of the day, and you have to be creative about it—but that’s our job," says former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert of today's media landscape. Bob joined us in his first in-depth interview since leaving the New York Times in March of this year.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Bob Herbert, and Missed Connections
April 19, 2011"We need to stay loudly and clearly that there is an alternative. The debate underway is suffocatingly narrow," says Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, of the way the conversation about jobs and the economy has become a conversation about spending and deficits. Meanwhile, she notes, outside of the Beltway, independent media and independent activists like US Uncut are fighting hard to change the conversation.
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