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Showing videos filed under: economy
The F Word: Missed Connections from the Economic to the Social
April 19, 2011Is there a journalism school tradition that teaches up-and-comers to put stories in little boxes? Half our job, in independent media, it seems to me, is putting the connections back.Mark Hertsgaard, The Bill Hicks Story, and Making Obama Fight
April 14, 2011"At a time when we are cutting health care, cutting education, cutting old people from the budget, we want to put $50 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power?" asks Mark Hertsgaard, longtime environmental reporter. "Nuclear power will make climate change worse, not better," he argues.The F Word: Time For Obama To Join the Fight
April 14, 2011Obama's punching below his weight class again. That was Gary Younge's metaphor, a boxing analogy that makes more sense if you consider the weight a politician carries to be the support for their policies around the country.Heather Boushey: Fiscal Policy Not Just Numbers on the Page
April 14, 2011"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.Heather Boushey, Deborah Small, and Cutting the Future
April 13, 2011"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.J. Hoberman, Triangle's Echoes, and Danny Schechter
March 25, 2011What does Invasion of the Body Snatchers have to do with the Cold War? Why do so many people know about Ayn Rand? These are just a few of the questions that Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman takes on in his new book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War.Danny Schechter: What's Holding Up Economic Justice?
March 25, 2011We can’t even say that a crisis a day keeps the doctor away. In fact, with radiation spreading and bombs falling, you can bet that hospitals in Japan and Libya will be packed.Bill Fletcher, Jr., Dennis Kucinich, and Union Education
March 24, 2011"Republicans are moving an agenda to defund programs and agencies that they've never supported," says Bill Fletcher, Jr. "They're not discussing where we get the money to attack Libya if we're broke." Bill, past president of the TransAfrica Forum, says that it's hypocritical of the U.S. to get involved in Libya's conflict while ignoring tyrants in other parts of the world.Dennis Kucinich: Creating Economic Democracy
March 24, 2011"We have to change the balance here and the way you change the balance is a conceptual shift in what you see as the purpose of a nation. The purpose of a nation isn't to make the rich richer or to make the poor poorer, it's to make sure that you have a vibrant economy where there's room for everyone," says Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich.Paul Mason: The Global Working Class Fighting Back
March 18, 2011"You see this coming together of networks of educated people—I call them the graduates with no future—with the urban poor, with sometimes organized labor. This mixture is there everywhere the protests have been," says Paul Mason, Economics editor of BBC Newsnight and author of Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global. Mason notes that from student protests in London to workers in Wisconsin, revolution in Tunisia to uprising in Libya, many of the same characteristics are visible.
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