[vimeo http://vimeo.com/87516707] In a Web-exclusive interview, political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Bill Moyers about his new article in the March issue of Harper’s Magazine – a challenge to America’s progressives provocatively titled, “Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals.” In the piece, Reed writes that Democrats and liberals have become too fixated on More
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/87516707] In a Web-exclusive interview, political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Bill Moyers about his new article in the March issue of Harper’s Magazine – a challenge to America’s progressives provocatively titled, “Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals.” In the piece, Reed writes that Democrats and liberals have become too fixated on More
What words best describe present-day Washington politics? The commonplace answer, endlessly repeated by politicians themselves and media observers alike, is this: dysfunction, gridlock, partisanship and incivility. Yet here’s a far more accurate term: tacit consensus. Bill Moyers Moyers & Company February 21, 2014 Where Republicans and Democrats disagree, however loudly, matters less than where their More
This will be short, about 3:16 short. Bill Moyers has called it. Please watch this video. DailyKos.org [youtube=http://youtu.be/pFYb4gKEFl4] So what got left out of the budget this year? 1. Unemployment Extension 2. Real infrastructure development/work relief actions 3. economy-stimulating alternative energy tax credits and subsidies 4. removal of fossil fuel subsidies 5. removal of tax More
We blame the poor, homeless, unemployed and recent graduates suffocating under financial debt for their plight as if individual responsibility explains the ballooning gap in wealth, income and power and the growing state violence that supports it. Poor people end up in debtor jail for not paying parking tickets or their bills while the corrupt More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/u_FP-7_UUNI] Published on Nov 22, 2013 In his book, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, author and scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots to prove his theory that our current system is informed by a "machinery of social and civil death" that chills "any vestige of a robust democracy." Subscribe or “Follow” More
"For those who have refused to participate in the willful amnesia that marks the contemporary slide into authoritarianism, the totalitarian practices of the past few decades have been quite clear. Domestic spying; secret prisons; kill lists; military aggression; the rise of corporatism; the death-dealing culture of hyper-masculinity, drones and the spectacle of violence; and a More
"For those who have refused to participate in the willful amnesia that marks the contemporary slide into authoritarianism, the totalitarian practices of the past few decades have been quite clear. Domestic spying; secret prisons; kill lists; military aggression; the rise of corporatism; the death-dealing culture of hyper-masculinity, drones and the spectacle of violence; and a More
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Bill Moyers interviews Glenn Greenwald. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/64737890 w=400&h=300] April 24, 2013 Moyers & Company billmoyers.com With so few answers on hand about motives behind the Boston bombings, are we asking the right questions? Columnist Glenn Greenwald tells Bill that, if there is a connection between the perpetrators and radical terrorist groups, we need to More
Bill Moyers interviews Glenn Greenwald. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/64737890 w=400&h=300] April 24, 2013 Moyers & Company billmoyers.com With so few answers on hand about motives behind the Boston bombings, are we asking the right questions? Columnist Glenn Greenwald tells Bill that, if there is a connection between the perpetrators and radical terrorist groups, we need to More
