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Naomi Klein: Building a Real Left
September 14, 2010"We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible." Who better to say such a thing than Naomi Klein, Nation columnist, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, and longtime rabblerouser?Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Naomi Klein, and Invisible People
September 13, 2010"We need to be covering the left as much as we cover, with anxiety, the right," notes Nation contributor and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell. The lack of coverage of progressive movements, protests, and actions in the face of a loud, angry and well-funded right wing can be disheartening, but we know they are out there, and in some cases fighting hard to keep a Tea Party backed Republican party from taking back seats in Congress during the midterms.William K. Black: Elizabeth Warren & Consumer Protection
July 21, 2010Former regulator, savings & loan investigator, and current Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute William K. Black says that if Elizabeth Warren isn't appointed to head the consumer protection agency passed as part of the financial reform bill, it will be a clear sign that the agency isn't going to protect consumers at all. While Warren has done the research in the field for 20 years, he notes, other candidates preferred by Treasury Secretary Geithner have fallen more into the Rubin/Summers camp of deregulators.William K. Black, Real Peace Process, and Top Secret America
July 20, 2010Former regulator, savings & loan investigator, and current Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute William K. Black says that if Elizabeth Warren isn't appointed to head the consumer protection agency passed as part of the financial reform bill, it will be a clear sign that the agency isn't going to protect consumers at all. While Warren has done the research in the field for 20 years, he notes, other candidates preferred by Treasury Secretary Geithner have fallen more into the Rubin/Summers camp of deregulators.The F Word: In Defense of Root Canals
January 29, 2010In his State of the Union, President Obama scored some laughs early on with his comment that the bank bailout was “about as popular as a root canal.”Citizens United, Iraq, and Howard Zinn
January 28, 2010Obama's State of the Union speech called for jobs, health care reform, and fighting the influence of corporations on our government processes, but after the past year, many progressives are skeptical that he'll actually fight. He did include a sharp critique in his speech of the decision of the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a decision that Steve Cobble called an "intellectually dishonest power grab."Week in Review: Jobs Crisis Needs Structural Solutions
December 12, 2009Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, Tim Casey of Legal Momentum and author of the report Battered by the Storm, Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress, and Max Fraad Wolff of The New School for Social Research talk about the solutions, short and long-term, for creating jobs, spreading them more equitably through the population, and fixing the structural problems with the economy that led to this recession.Jobs Crisis Needs Structural Solutions
December 9, 2009President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, saying that small businesses and green jobs were the way forward for the nation. He proposed shifting funds from the TARP program--the much-derided bank bailout--to job creation programs, and offered tax cuts and incentives.Jobs, Thomas Frank, Copenhagen and Honduras
December 8, 2009President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, but, our guests today note, the problems with unemployment and underemployment in this country aren't just results of this current recession, and they will not be fixed simply by returning to where we were.The F Word: Treasury's Private Ocean
July 20, 2009The public paid out. And we waited, and waited, while unemployment rose and wages sank. Where'd our money go? Of 360 banks that got money through the end of January -- Barofsky reports that 110 invested at least some of it on the stock market, 52 repaid bad debts they'd taken out, and 15 used our funds to buy up other banks. And that's not even counting the millions they spent lobbying against bankruptcy reform or credit card regulation.
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