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Showing videos filed under: wall street journal
Kate Clinton: Social Notworking
April 11, 2011Kate Clinton examines the faces behind the new social networking--the brave new faces of a new media world that look very much like the same old faces of the same old media world.Sarah Ludwig, The Goldstone Report, and Obama's Op-Ed
January 19, 2011"We need to shine a light on the big banks and all their different tentacles," says Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, noting that all too many of the programs put in place to encourage banks to help homeowners fight foreclosure are voluntary, rendering them toothless. Instead, she calls for citizens to be aware of the banks' practices and to think about where we put our money.The F Word: Obama's Deregulation Dance with Wall Street
January 19, 2011With a new Republican Congress falling all over itself to hand corporations whatever they want, it was only a matter of time before some politician turned up in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, breathlessly describing the “dazzling” and “path-breaking” nature of the free market, and vowing to get rid of regulations that have placed “unreasonable” burdens on businesses.Peter Hart, Miriam Moskowitz, Haiti and the Broken Economy
January 12, 2011"They are goading people into feeling like their country has been stolen from them," says FAIR's Peter Hart of Glenn Beck and other right-wing media personalities with what he terms a "conspiratorial worldview." It's not just using violent metaphors, in other words, it's creating a paranoid mindset that something dangerous is happening to the U.S. that can appeal to those already inclined toward paranoid thinking, like Jared Loughner.The F Word: The Violence of the Broken Economy
January 12, 2011A lot of people have talked this week about violent political rhetoric bringing the U.S. to a fever pitch, but there's something else keeping people on edge: that's economic catastrophe and despair.Jeff Biggers, Rebecca Traister & Hendrik Hertzberg, and Hoarders
July 15, 2010Yet another coal miner was killed on the job this week, and journalist and author Jeff Biggers says that the situation has reached crisis level--that it's a war on miners. He also notes that abuse of the land and abuse of the people who work on it has always gone hand in hand, so as pressure for mountaintop removal and new coal mines mounts, so do safety violations--the latest being a story broken by NPR, that a methane gas monitor at the Little Big Branch mine, where 29 workers died in an explosion in April, had been deliberately shut down.The F Word: Great Hoarding Causing Great Hurt
July 15, 2010Congress is hemming and hawing over financial reform, no doubt weighing up the cost of too little reform vs. too many lost campaign contributions. Meanwhile, while the best jobless workers can hope for is an extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed, it's not just the jobless who are slipping under the bus -- it's all workers. As Robert Reich pointed out this week, real wages are falling - even as hours and “productivity” are rising. And the White House keeps on hoping that the private sector will do the right thing about all of this.John Fugelsang, Climate Change, and Coal Goes Shopping
April 20, 2010Gun advocates rallied this week in support of their right to bear arms, the Pope has said that his church has sinned, Goldman Sachs is giving out bonuses in the throes of SEC charges, and laptops are taking pictures of kids while they sleep! This may sound like a vision of the end times, but really it's just another week in the news these days.The F Word: Coal Company Shopping Spree
April 20, 2010Last week, I noted that rating agency Standard and Poors had upgraded Massey Energy from “hold” to a “buy.” Massey's the company that owns the mine where 29 miners were killed in an explosion recently. Now we find out that Standard and Poors were right: Massey's prospects are only going up -- in fact, they're on a shopping spree!Haiti and New Orleans, Raj Patel and We Want What's Ours
January 21, 2010The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti--and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later--need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions.
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