Economy

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A Brief Commentary on Paid and Unpaid Work

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe briefly remarks on the biases we have for paid work and against unpaid work. He suggests we overlook the possibility for useful and needed contributions when our solutions to unemployment assume wage-labor as the only legitimate form of work we can do while still making... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2011

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this labor day special and we hear:   Bill Resnick Morristalks with Daniel Randall about building an independent working-class environmental movement. Joe comments on paid and unpaid work. The Left and the Law tackle the "West Memphis Three".... Read more

Disaster Capitalism Swoops Over Libya

Airs at: Fri, 08/26/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Host Per Fagereng interviews journalist Pepe Escobar about Libya. According to Escobar, the next step is to get American hands on Libyan oil, and, in his words, “if this is the way that US and NATO goes, we’re going to have Iraq 2.0.” Escobar's books include Obama Does Glo... Read more

Joe Returns with a discussion on Who Really Controls America... And, What will we DO about it?

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2011 at 12:00am
 Joe Uris Returns from his Summer Haitus, and Abe takes a week off. Today's discussion revolves around Who Really Runs da Joint...  Who?  Capital, that's who, certainly not We The People.  The top One Tenth of One Percent of Americans control that vast majority of wealth in ... Read more

Stephen Glain: "State vs. Defense, the Battle to Define America's Empire"

Airs at: Thu, 08/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Per Fagering hosts Stephen Glain, author of State vs. Defense,  the Battle to Define America's Empire,  described as a masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, a... Read more

The debt ceiling fiasco: an update with economist Richard D. Wolff

Airs at: Thu, 08/04/2011 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Economist Richard D. Wolff returns to Fight the Empire with an update on the debt ceiling fiasco. (Host Per Fagereng also hosted Wolff 2 weeks ago on 7/21/11.)  Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught econom... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/30/11

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Arun Gupta speaks on "The Economic Crisis & the Tea Party." You've played by the rules. Went to work every day. Paid your bills and taxes. When your country summoned you to fight in its wars you were proud to serve. You've worked hard all your life and now what do you get? ... Read more

Abe surveys the economic, social and political wreckage of the new age of austerity

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is still on vacation.   The current austerity fetish was never a good idea, and now we know it's bad politics, too. The austerity kick in Washington is exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time. At a time of enormous economic duress, ... Read more

UK Rising

Airs at: Wed, 08/17/2011 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
  We talk with Zita Holburne from BARAC - Black Activists Rising Against Cuts - in the UK. You'll also hear from anti-fascist organizer Weymann Bennett and family members of people who have died in police custody in Britain, organizing for justice and police accountability... Read more

Here's an idea, Mr. President: try governing the way you campaigned.

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor   What's a progressive to do these days? A federal court has declared the "individual mandate" provision of the health care bill to be unconstitutional, making it nearly inevitable that the case will find its way to the Supreme Court. Hmm, what sort... Read more