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Greg Mitchell: Quite a Complex, Indeed
Everywhere you look, jobs are cut, programs are eliminated, and the fat is trimmed as closely as possible leaving only the bare bones of our society. Well, almost everywhere. It seems that for all the costs being cut surrounding education and employment benefits, a disproportionate amount of money has poured into intelligence, better known as the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. This imbalance in public spending and private contractors prompted the Washington Post to conduct a two-year long investigation into this hidden, growing world.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Cuts, deficit, Employment Benefits, George Schultz, george shultz, Government, interview, Job Cuts, Meida, Military Industrial Complex, PBS, private contractors, Public Spending, The Nation, Triumph and Turmoil, Video, washington post, Washington Post Investigation Leave a comment
Mark Hertsgaard and Sarah Laskow, Finding Louisiana’s Methadone
Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard reminds us that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged bp, clean energy, Clean energy economy, Energy Politics, Environment, Environmental Policies, Environmental Politics, freedom from oil, green energy, interview, louisiana, mark hertsgaard, media consortium, Off Shore Drilling, Off Shore Drilling Moratorium, oil, oil spill, Panel Discussions, petroleum, Sarah Laskow, sierra club, solar power, The Nation, Video Leave a comment
Dean Baker: Financial Reform or Lack Thereof?
What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who wont get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co director for the Center on Economic and Policy Research and Nation columnist clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Dean Baker, economic recovery, economics, economy, financial reform, g20 summit, interview, Recession, The Nation, toronto, Video Leave a comment
Shayana Kadidal: SCOTUS Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid
While foreign terror is unspeakable, domestic infringements on constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, are necessary for national security. In Holder vs. Humanitarian Law project, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional law that it is illegal to, “knowingly provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.”
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Center for Constitutional Rights, constitutional rights, freedom flotilla, Freedom of Speech, Gaza, Hamas, Holder vs. Humanitarian Law, Holder vs. Humantarian Law Project, interview, Jimmy Carter, Shayana Kadidal, Supreme Court Decisions, Terrorism, Video Leave a comment
Jeremy Scahill: Minerals, WikiLeaks, and Blackwater for Sale
Author and Nation Magazine contributor Jeremy Scahill joins us in the studio to deconstruct the incoming news from Afghanistan, including the search for the founder of WikiLeaks, BlackWater for sale, and the mineral-rich Afghanistan.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Afghanistan, Blackwater, blackwater for sale, interview, Jeremy Scahill, kabul, kandahar, karzai, minerals in afghanistan, taliban, The Nation, us military, Video, war, war in afgahnistan, wikileaks Leave a comment
Greg Grandin: Media Whiteout of Latin America