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Capitalism Hits the Fan: Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Richard Wolff has been a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts since 1981. Dr. Wolff's major interests include the critical comparison of alternative economic theories (neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian), the application of advanced class analysis to ... Read more

Political Perspectives on 03/12/09

Airs at: Thu, 03/12/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Host Robyn Shanti speaks with Michael Shuman, economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur. Michael is a visionary leader in the field of community economic development and advisor for the Rural Development Initiatives' Connecting Oregon for Rural Entrepreneurship (CORE) ... Read more

Jobless? It's not your fault! Plus, Disease in the Seas, and Pundits Pushing Iranian War?

Airs at: Wed, 03/04/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Presswatch

On the March 5 Presswatch, host Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know." Out of work?--don't blame yourself--team up and demand your rights! Will there be a military response to worker protests? What even small mean temperature changes in the cli... Read more

Dear Leader

So, as we will discuss on the show tomorrow, Washington is in the throes of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. This is an event where the purest of the ideologically pure gather to congratulate themselves on having ascended to the pinnacle of Western civi... Read more

Teabaggin'

So, in response to President Obama's stimulus plan and new budget, a handful of "spontaneous" conservative demonstrations have sprung up around the country. Billing themselves as "tea parties," these heartfelt outpourings of right-wing pathos are intended to channel the re... Read more

The Case against Private Jets and How Israel got Nukes

Airs at: Wed, 02/25/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

On the February 26 Presswatch, host Theresa Mitchell "with the news you're not supposed to know," states the case for leveling the wealth. What? No more private jets? And what's this about 50,000 trips to remain indefinitely in Iraq? And a look at Israel's hypocrisy--h... Read more

Marty Hart-Landsberg on the economy (part 1)

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Marty Hart-Landsberg is Professor of Economics and Director of the Political Economy Program at Lewis and Clark College. His books include Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy, which he edited with Richard Westra and Seongjin Jeong. This is Part 1 of ... Read more

Pratap Chatterjee on our Privatized, Outsourced Military

Airs at: Tue, 02/24/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Pratap Chatterjee (CorpWatch) talks about why the privatized, outsourced military Barack Obama has inherited from the Bush administration will prove a done deal. Pratap Chatterjee's article, "The Military's Expanding Waistline, What Will Obama Do with KBR?," appears at h... Read more

Chuck Collins on the Stimulus Package

Airs at: Tue, 02/17/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Required reading for today's broadcast: EconomicMeltDownFunnies.org... President Obama has just signed a 787 billion dollar stimulus package into law. So what does it all mean and what can we hope for? Locus Focus Resident Economist Chuck Collins joins Locus Focus host Barb... Read more

Liberal whiplash syndrome

This about sums it up. -A H/T Salon.com Read more