Category: total corruption
ON CONTACT w/Vandana Shiva – The fight for life v. Monsanto/Bayer AG
Chomsky BBC Interview Corbyn, Deadly Republicans, Class, Corruption
Fairly typical bright but fundamentally clueless BBC interviewer talks to Chomsky like an equal, is confronted with the truth, and most of it bounces off of him as if he were made of teflon. He seems clueless because he has almost totally absorbed the reigning neoliberal ideology of the establishment. He wouldn’t be there if he hadn’t. Chomsky’s and Edward S. Herman’s Manufacturing Consent breaks down how the interviewer got where he is. It also explains why the BBC has fallen even further into its role as partisan mouthpiece for the right (i.e, the aforementioned neoliberal establishment). Spoiler alert: the BBC is state media and corporations and the super rich run the state.
The way the BBC titled the video is the definition of burying the lede.
Enjoy:
Fuck work: The case against full employment, and for guaranteed income. [from @thisishellradio podcast]
This is a must listen interview from a must listen podcast:
“Historian James Livingston examines the deep problem with employment in the 21st century – the broken relationship between work and income, and explains why we must look beyond capitalism’s intellectual decrepitude, and to the rising rate of transfer payments, if we are to reclaim our labor, our happiness and our time from the demands of capitalism.
“The end of work is in sight. The connection between work performed and character created, or work preformed and income received is absolutely unintelligible – so let’s get on with a society in which there doesn’t have to be a relationship between work and income. Let’s get on with what we used to call ‘Socialism.'”
James is the author of the new book, No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea from UNC Press and the Aeon essay Fuck Work.”
@DrJillStein @ the Oxford Union Society – Full Talk
Chomsky & Varoufakis discuss “…the neoliberal assault on the world’s population…” [Video]
“Well, we can talk about the neoliberal assault on the world’s population in the last generation.”
Chris Hedges – Concordia University Speech (12/9/2015) [Video]
Do you want to learn a lot in a (relatively) short time? Listen to this:
Starts around the two minute mark:
Listen to more This is Hell radio/podcast at ThisisHell.com
The Guardian has a killed by cops database
Hedges and John Ralston Saul discuss Neoliberalism as Utopianism [Video]
Excellent news and analysis at The Real News Network and teleSUR English
More news about the harsh realities of the ACA (AKA ObamaCare)
“This post is a round-up of the current issues in the never-ending saga of ObamaCare, Rube Goldberg device (an example for those who came in late[1]). There are three current issues:
1) The new and improved ObamaCare website. Does it make “smart shopping” possible? Spoiler alert: No.
2) The collapse of ObamaCare co-ops. Was it pre-ordained when ObamaCare was passed? Spoiler alert: Yes, but there’s unexpected hope.
3) The current court challenge to ObamaCare, Sissel. What does it tell us about Democrats?”
(There’s plenty more to cover — premium increases, for one, as well as the actual policies made available — but these three issues are the hot stories right now.)
– By Lambert Strether of Corrente at nakedcapitalism.com
Abby Martin interviews Chris Hedges on American myths, war, and revolt [Video]
Political cartoon sketched in words after the Greek vote
The Eurocrats, controlled by the banks, have a noose around Greece’s neck – and they’re using it as a leash as they conduct a forced march down the neoliberal road, kicking at the billions of cans of debt littering their way.
The Truth About Greece [Video]
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt – Chris Hedges on RAI [Video]
Chris Hedges “Wages of Rebellion”
Five Big Banks Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets,Get Slap on Wrist,Investors are pleased [Video]
“…essentially banking has become a kind of criminal enterprise. And we’re talking about multiple crimes over multiple years, committed by the same institutions under the administration of the same senior executives. So it isn’t a quick case of one or two rogue traders or bad actors here. We have an institutional problem, a real culture of crime and opportunism within these financial institutions.” – James S. Henry
The EuroDiVision Contest – feat. Merkel, Žižek & IMF [RAP NEWS 31]
A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore–
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
– Langston Hughes
21st Century Theater 