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Showing videos filed under: The Indypendent
Peter Bratsis: Rationality and Emotion on the Left
December 16, 2010"In truth, we face the sobering reality that capitalism’s latest crisis — complete with bank failures, corporate bailouts, rising unemployment, and declining wages — has aided the right, not the left. How can we explain the capacity of the right to benefit from and redirect the bitterness and discontent that derives from capitalism’s own failures?"Rick Rowley, Rethink Afghanistan, Peter Bratsis & Harry Potter
December 15, 2010"NATO is losing the war in Afghanistan in every quantifiable way," says Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films, recently returned from a reporting trip to that country. And what's more, he notes, what's clear from the WikiLeaks cables is that the coalition governments are not as deluded as they would like their people to be about the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.The Politics of Hunger, Kathy Kelly on Gaza, and the Return of Goldman Sachs
January 27, 2009Some 36 million Americans do not have enough to eat. Globally world hunger is near a breaking point. And even as oil prices have come down the global food crisis continues to worsen. So what's driving the crisis at home and abroad? Joel Berg, the author of All You Can Eat:The End of Capitalism, Bob Holman on a Poetic Economy, and the U.S. Comes Full Circle in Afghanistan
October 29, 2008Market fundamentalism has been at the heart of U.S. economic policy for the last three decades. From Ronald Reagan and trickle down economics to Bill Clinton and deregulation the Washington Consensus has ruled the day. Fewer rules, open markets, and free trade. The impact has been far reaching. We are witnessing the fall out now but the corruption, the rot may run much deeper.You call this success? Can the world survive more Bush-type Success?
September 11, 2008Bush calls his Iraq policy a "success." So does John McCain. Can the world survive more success like this?
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