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| Author, Naomi Klein, on the spread of market fundamentalism, austerity measures and privatizing war | |
| From: AllanGregg | 28 October 2010 | Nine-eleven. the Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina. According to Naomi Klein, these and other crises have been exploited by neo-conservatives to impose radical free-market policies on unwitting citizens. Klein is a journalist, filmmaker and activist, known for her bestseller No Logo. Her provocative new book is called The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. | |
| Date: 22 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 796 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 | |
| Friends in Washington -but with friends like these who needs enemies?: David DeGraw on how change is needed | |
| golefttv | 19 November 2010 | This year\\\'s midterm election results didn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t come as a surprise to many people, but what is surprising is that the Tea Party Republicans were able to convince so many people to vote against their own interests. What\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s even worse is that President Obama has now decided that instead of fighting the GOP majority, he\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s going to just go along with them and let their disastrous economic and social policies be resurrected. It\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s becoming clear that average US citizens have no allies in our federal government, so the question now is \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | |
| Date: 22 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 793 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 4.8 | |
| Controversial Secure Communities Program: Fingerprints of all arrested sent to Homeland Security | |
| A battle is brewing in New York over the Secure Communities Program, a controversial federal immigration enforcement policy that requires local police to forward fingerprints of every person they arrest to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. New York Gov. David Paterson has approved a Secure Communities agreement, but is facing heavy opposition. Democracy Now! speaks to Aarti Shahani, author of a new study that challenges this policy. | |
| Date: 21 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 781 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Push Michael Moore Off a Cliff: Insurance Whistleblower Details How Industry Attacked Sicko 2 of 2 | |
| When Academy Award-winning film director Michael Moore announced he would be making a documentary about the American healthcare system in 2004, it put the health insurance industry on high alert. One person who immediately went on the offensive was Wendell Potter, who at the time was the chief spokesperson for insurance giant CIGNA. Last year, Potter became the industry\\\'s most prominent whistleblower. Democracy Now! speaks with him about his role in attacking Michael Moore, his film Sicko, and the movement for a single-payer healthcare system. (quote)We felt that this movie would have such an impact that it would really pave the way for legislation to be passed that could be very detrimental to the insurance industry. So it was very important for the insurers to attack this movie as fiercely as possible, Potter said. (quote)We developed a very, very sophisticated communications campaign to make sure that people saw him [Moore] as a Marxist, as a socialist, and that he was going to be destroying the American Dream.(end quote) Wendell Potter is now the Senior Fellow on Health Care for the Center for Media and Democracy. He has a new book out, (quote) Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans. (end quote) | |
| Date: 21 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 789 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Arizona Has Death Panels - This is what Austerity Looks Like (Part 1) | |
| MSNBC 19 November 2010 Keith Olbermann talks about (and with) people in Arizona who will be denied needed transplants because of the Arizona GOP. | |
| Date: 20 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 773 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| CONNED: Wall Street Wins Again? | |
| AmericansUnited | 18 November 2010 | CONNED: Don\\\'t Let Wall Street Win Again | |
| Date: 20 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 754 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Worst Person In The World - George W. Bush | |
| MSNBC,19 November 2010 MSNBC\\\'s Keith Olbermann | |
| Date: 20 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 810 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Cambridge Economist Ha-Joon Chang on Currency Wars, the G20 and Why There's No Such Thing As a Free Market | |
| 19 November 2010 | Korean-born economist Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at the University of Cambridge and is the author of the forthcoming book, 23 Things They Don\\\'t Tell You About Capitalism. (quote)[Obama] has to buy time to restructure the economy without creating a recession by sustaining this deficit spending, because otherwise our other option is going back to the 1930s, Chang says. (quote)Don\\\'t forget that in the 1930s a lot of countries started cutting this deficit as soon as things looked slightly better, and many of them went back into recession.(end quote) | |
| Date: 20 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 790 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |
| Cornel West on Bush's Memoir, Rep. Charles Rangel, the 2-party System, and Obama's First Two Years | |
| 19 November 2010 | Princeton University professor and author Cornel West join speaks with Democracy Now! about Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) being censured for ethics violations, President George W. Bush saying the worst moment of his presidency was when Kanye West called him a racist, the state of American politics, and President Obama\\\'s first two years in office. (quote)The Obama administration seems to have very little concern for poor people and their social misery,(end quote) West said. | |
| Date: 20 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 816 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |
| Independent Media On the Green Economy & The New Republican Congress | |
| TheMediaConsortium | 17 November 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes Monica Potts of The American Prospect talks about the future of the green economy and how the results of the midterm elections will impact America\\\'s green workforce. Check out her article about the green economy at http://prospect.org/cs/articles?artic... This video was produced by The Media Consortium, a network of the country\\\'s leading independent media outlets. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tmcmedia or like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/themediaconso... | |
| Date: 20 November 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 785 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |