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US CAPITALISM NEWSLETTER #21, December 28, 2014.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace,
Justice, and Ecology.
(#1 Jan. 30, 2011;
#2 August 24, 2011; #3 October 2, 2011; #4 Oct. 29, 2011; #5 Jan. 29, 2012; #6
April 7, 2012; #7 June 8, 2012; #8 July 14, 2012; #9 Nov. 12, 2012; #10 Dec.
27, 2012; #11 Feb. 24, 2013; #12 April 23, 2013; #13, July 7, 2013; #14 August
28, 2013; #15, Nov. 22, 2013; #16 Feb. 18, 2014; #17, March 16, 2014; #18, May
6, 2014; #19, Sept. 12, 2014; #20, October 14, 2014).
What’s at stake: We seek an economic system that enables
affirmative government and supports domestic and international peace, economic
and social justice, human rights, democracy, and protects and enhances the
earth and species.
[For more see What’s
at stake in Newsletter #18.]
My blog: The War
Department and Peace Heroes
Newsletters:
Index:
See Citizens
United/McCutcheon, Class, Corporate Crime, Corporate Personhood,
Corporations, Economics, Globalization, Go Not to Jail, Greed, Imperialism,
Inequality, Information Control, Lobbying, Marx, Military Industrial Complex,
Monopoly, Occupy, Rapacity, Regulation/Deregulation, Secrecy, Socialism, Too
Big To Fail, US Economic Imperialism, Working Class, and related topics.
Recent OMNI Newsletters: Knowledge for Peace, Justice,
Ecology Action
US Chamber of Commerce
Bill of Rights DAY
UN Human Rights DAY
Vegetarian Action
Snowden/Surveillance
Causes/Prevention of Wars
US Capitalism Nos.
13-20 at end.
Contents US
Capitalism Newsletter #21
History of Capitalism
Ian Klaus, Rogues,
Swindlers, Frauds and the Rise of Modern Finance
US Capitalism Today
Bucheit, NationofChange: Super Rich
Moyers and Winship,
Graft and Bribes abracadabra Contributions
Greed is Good…..for the Rich
Joyce Hale, Film Shadows
of Liberty
Seth Sandronsky, “Reading Samir Amin” (2 2013 books by Amin)
Taibbi, The Divide (between
rich and poor)
Resistance
Bill Moyers’ Recent Interviews
Hilgert, Right of Workers to Safe\ Work (2013 Book)
Conflict Within ACLU Over “Corporate Free Speech”
HISTORY OF CAPITALISM
CHRIS LEHMANN,
“SLEIGHT OF THE INVISIBLE HAND.” IN THESE TIMES (DECEMBER 2014). REVIEW OF IAN
KLAUS, FORGING CAPITALISM: ROGUES,
SWINDLERS, FRAUDS, AND THE RISE OF MODERN FINANCE.
“…every phase of our market society’s expansion was shaped
by deceit, fraud and mountebankery.”
Focuses “on the British investment scene of the 19th century”
that led to the “far larger commercial revolution in America.” Lehmann connects “these studies in British
fraud and the grotesqueries that stoked the 2008 financial meltdown” led by
“that shameless huckster Alan Greenspan.”
--Dick
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US CAPITALISM TODAY
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Paul
Buchheit, Op-Ed, NationofChange, Nov. 17, 2014
Mainstream media have deliberately bypassed the fact that the wealthiest Americans believe that greed is good for everyone. But who is really benefiting from it the most? |
Moyers and Winship |
Dividing the Spoils
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company,
Reader Supported News, Nov. 22, 2014.
Excerpt: "The framers debated the meaning of corruption at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and Americans have been arguing about it ever since. Today, gifts to politicians that were once called graft or bribes are called contributions. The Supreme Court has granted corporations the rights our founders reserved for people, and told those corporations they can give just about anything they want to elect politicians favorable to their interests."
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Excerpt: "The framers debated the meaning of corruption at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and Americans have been arguing about it ever since. Today, gifts to politicians that were once called graft or bribes are called contributions. The Supreme Court has granted corporations the rights our founders reserved for people, and told those corporations they can give just about anything they want to elect politicians favorable to their interests."
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GREED IS GOOD
Do We Live on a One
Party Planet?
by Martin Kirk. Common Dreams, Nov. 22, 2014.
Introducing a new digital pamphlet designed to connect the dots on advanced-stage, 21st Century neoliberalism.
by Martin Kirk. Common Dreams, Nov. 22, 2014.
Introducing a new digital pamphlet designed to connect the dots on advanced-stage, 21st Century neoliberalism.
Comments from an activist’s perspective while viewing
the documentary – SHADOWS OF LIBERTY
By Joyce Hale 10-28-14
[OMNI showed this film Oct. 18.
See Newsletter #20. It was
followed by a panel of Debra Brown, Sonia Gutierrez, Ben Pollock, Art Hobson,
Joyce Hale. Dick Bennett, Moderator.]
Media is often referred to as the Fourth Estate regarding
importance and impact. Public access to
information and exposure of government activity are essential for an informed
electorate. Since most media are
privately owned, they are subject to financial influence. Even public radio and television are
requiring more and more commercial support since federal funding has been
cut. Licensing and permitting by the
government should provide public protection of the airways, but it is also
subject to financial political influence.
FIVE MAJOR MEDIA PROBLEMS FOR ACTIVISTS:
SILENCE
regarding important issues and stories – If a story isn’t broadcast or doesn’t
make it into print, it may be the same in the public’s mind as never happening.
Consolidation of media makes it harder to gain coverage with less time and
fewer column inches available.
Getting out
ahead of the story – Activists are always “nipping at the heels” of corporate
influence. Without projecting ahead to
predict trends and outcomes, activists are generally behind playing defense
rather than offensive.
Voices
discounted without “credentials” – Many activists are closer to observe first
hand a situation but discounted as being anecdotal, emotional or insufficiently
knowledgeable compared to academics and politicians who end up testifying,
serving on boards or writing articles.
Lack of
journalistic investigation or fact checking – In the rush to meet a deadline,
beat another publication with a story or produce a piece by someone lacking
basic knowledge of the subject, information is often incomplete and
fragmented.
Failure of
the public to connect the dots of information available – All the information
can be reported, but if it is fragmented, the public may not make the
connection to get the big picture. Just
because everything is exposed doesn’t mean that the information today is
associated with an event or individual reported a month earlier. The public’s short attention span also
contributes to the problem.
CORPORATE CONTROL AND ADVANTAGE:
First in
line to “frame” the public’s perception – The word selection has a dramatic
influence on perception. Edward Bernays,
the father of public relations, demonstrated many times the ability to turn a
negative into a positive through a careful choice of words. Cigarettes were marketed by the tobacco
industry to the suffragettes as “freedom torches” to signify women’s rights to
act independently. The four words, clean, abundant, domestic, and affordable, were linked to natural gas
development before the public understood that each word carried only a
half-truth. Once words are associated
with an idea, it cannot be reframed by those who try to set the record
straight. You can’t un-ring a bell.
Creating an
echo chamber and using repetition to imprint thinking – Once a word or phrase
is adopted to portray an idea, it is repeated ad nauseam and will be almost
impossible to disassociate from the implanted context.
Capture of
key words that represent only half-truths – It is important that a kernel of
truth lay at the core of propaganda. It
provides enough credibility to keep an idea alive even as the full truth begins
to emerge.
Projections
of damage have no basis until actual damage occurs – Non-disclosure agreements
are required by corporations for many compensation settlements and have kept
information from the media and researchers.
People assume that the media will report anything that has a seriously
negative impact, but not if the corporation or public official can obscure or
minimize it.
TRENDS
Growing
loss of trust in government’s “official” stories – Alternative explanations are
generated when there is doubt in the minds of the public about the credibility
of what they are told. Some conclusions
are totally bogus, but others result from in-depth research and are proved
correct in time. Stories about weapons
of mass destruction, false flag events, public officials caught lying,
unanswered questions about 9-11, junk science produced for corporate benefit
and the influence of money have produced a pall of propaganda and distrust in
everything “government.”
Independent
blogs and investigative journalists – The Internet has made it possible for
many voices to be raised and the quality and reliability of what is written is
infinitely variable. Selectivity to
reinforce one’s point of view is natural but contributes to divisiveness and
extremes. Care is required to determine
quality of content.
Junk
science – It only takes money to find the scientific perspective needed to
reinforce your point of view. Carefully
designed studies clutter an individual’s ability to know the truth. Looking carefully at who funds the research
and following the money or advantage to be gained is not always apparent.
Use of foreign trade agreements to gain power over sovereign
rule –
Most people are totally unaware of secret agreements that
have been designed to give greater powers to corporations and negatively impact
a country’s sovereignty. NAFTA, WTO, and
the World Bank have laid the foundation for expanding controls with the
TransPacific Partnership (TPP) and the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP). Having been
negotiated in extreme secrecy little would have been known without leaks. But there is limited or no reporting in the
mainstream media of the leaks and few recognize the situation as having a
direct impact on their everyday lives.
Concern
about loss of Internet – Like every freedom, the right to Internet open access
must be won and re-won. Information is
key to corporate and military power. If
the public doesn’t actively guard its access, all freedoms will be in jeopardy.
Seth Sandronsky, “Reading Samir Amin,” Z Magazine (Nov. 2014). Rev. of The
Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism and Three Essays on Marx’s Value Theory. https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/reading-samir-amin/
This brief review of
these two penetrating books on one of the most urgent problems today offers
arresting reading. Of particular
importance is Amin’s analysis of the “Imperial Triad”—the US, Europe, and
Japan: “The reason imperial armed forces
and mercenaries use force worldwide [“the hundreds of U.S. military bases
spanning the planet,” for example] is to enforce the rule of a collectivized
power and wealth of monopolies. . . .Mainstream media in the Triad disguise the
economic motives of war,” and “Militarized operations abroad and at home” (e.g.
Ferguson, MO) “maintain a virulent status quo of growing inequality.” In
the same number, see the interview by Taylan Tosum of Jack Rasmus, author of Epic Recession (2010) and the
forthcoming book, Transitions to Global
Depression. –Dick
MATT TAIBBI, THE
DIVIDE: AMERICAN INJUSTICE IN THE AGE OF THE WEALTH GAP. Spiegel and Grau, 2014.
By juxtaposing examples from poor and rich, Taibbi shows how
the rich control the justice system, which bullies the poor. The poor are harassed and go to jail, the
rich hire lawyers and pay fines. The
large corporations bully the small.
(Chap. 7, “Little Frauds” by the poor and weak, Chap. 8, “Big Frauds” by
the too big to fail, and Chap. 10, “Collateral
Consequences” of a criminal justice system deeply corrupted by money and
class.) --Dick
RESISTANCE
Bill Moyers and Co., PBS, recent programs on US Capitalism vs. Democracy
Robert Williams, Jr., Savage
Anxieties, Dec. 26
Steve Fraser, The New
Robber Barons, Dec. 19
John MacArthur, The
Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America, Dec. 12
Jaron Benjamin, Nov. 28
Laurence Lessig, Zephyr Teachout, Nov. 14 and Nov. 21
Gayle McLaughlin, Harriet Rowan, Nov. 7
Bernie Sanders, Oct. 31
Sherrilyn Ifill and Ari Berman, Oct. 24
Marilynne Robinson, Oct. 18
Bob Herbert, Oct. 9
Recent Moyers & Co. Interviews
in Newsletter #20
William Black, Bank
Regulator
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel
Prize Economist
Jim Hightower, Editor of The Hightower Lowdown
Charles Lewis, Founder of
Center for Public
Integrity
Et al.
- Bill Moyers and Co., PBS,
recent programs on US Capitalism vs. Democracy
- MOYERS
AND CO., AETN DECEMBER 28, 2014
·
December 26, 2014 | Moyers & Company http://billmoyers.com/episode/american-indians-confront-racism/
Legal expert Robert A. Williams Jr. says stereotypes about American Indians have been codified
into laws and government policies, with devastating consequences.
Dick’s Notes:
MOYERS & CO., AETN
DECEMBER 21, 2014
·
December 19, 2014 | Moyers & Company
Washington continues to reward wealthy donors and Wall St but
what about everyday Americans? Author and historian Steve Fraser has answers. [See Matt
Taibbi, The Divide. --Dick]
Full Show: The New Robber Barons
December 19, 2014
We’ve just watched the Senate and the
House — aided and abetted by President Obama — pay off financial interests with provisions in the new spending bill that
expand the amount of campaign cash wealthy donors can give, and let banks off
the hook for gambling with customer (and taxpayer) money.
What happened in Washington over the
past several days sounds strikingly familiar to the First Gilded Age more than
a century ago, when senators and representatives were owned by Wall Street and
big business. Then, as now, those who footed the bill for political campaigns
were richly rewarded with favorable laws.
Bill’s guest this week, historian Steve Fraser, says what was different about
the First Gilded Age was that people rose in rebellion against the powers that
be. Today we do not see “that enormous resistance,” but he concludes, “people
are increasingly fed up… their voices are not being heard. And I think that can
only go on for so long without there being more and more outbreaks of what used
to be called class struggle, class warfare.”
Steve Fraser is a writer, editor and
scholar of American history. Among his books are Every Man a
Speculator, Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace and Labor Will
Rule. His latest, The Age of
Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized
Wealth and Power, will be published early next year. http://billmoyers.com/episode/steve-fraser-new-robber-barons/
MOYERS AND CO., AETN DEC. 14, 2014
December 12, 2014 | Moyers & Company
John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine says
that Republicans and Democrats alike are abandoning the republic in pursuit of
big bucks.
Dick’s Notes:
MacArthur makes a powerful argument that the
Democratic Party under Bill Clinton turned economically hard right with free
trade agreements and deregulation. [See Matt Taibbi’s The Divide pp. 349-52.] Add Bill Moyers and you have a half-hour
program no one should miss, but particularly no Democrat who has already
decided Hillary should be the Dem presidential candidate in 2016. For working people—that is, for the
majority of the people—Bill Clinton was then and now is a Republican. So also is Hillary. And Obama is no different, but is worse than
Clinton.
Democrats
have been deceived by the wealthy individuals and corporations that run the
country into thinking that their acceptance of social liberalism (tolerance for
minorities, e.g.) extends to economics.
But although Obama promised to reverse Clinton/Bush free trade
agreements, he did not, and he never pushed, e.g. for minimum wage legislation
even when he had control of Congress, and today there are more part-time
workers than before the recession, general income has dropped significantly,
the working class (industrial jobs before Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama) is
now the lower class, and from his first days in office filled his
administration with people like pro-free trade and pro-deregulation Robert
Rubin as Treasury Secretary.
MacArthur’s most recent
book on the US plutocracy is The
Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America.
Dick:
Implication for grassroots Democrats, for Senior Democrats: Already Democrats are speaking of Hillary as
our next presidential candidate. Rather,
our Party at all levels should be mounting a major debate about candidates with
the aim of again becoming the Party of the People as described in Kaye’s The Fight for the Four Freedoms
MOYERS & CO., AETN, NOV. 29, 2014
Full Show: The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy
November 28, 2014 | Moyers & Company http://billmoyers.com/series/moyers-and-company/
From
luxury skyscrapers — taller, more expensive and exclusive than ever before —
the dark shadows of plutocracy are spreading across the commons of democracy.
Full Show: The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy
November 28, 2014
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All
we have to do to see its effects is to realize that all across America millions
of people of ordinary means can’t afford decent housing.
As wealthy investors and buyers drive up real estate values, the
middle class is being squeezed further and the working poor are being shoved
deeper into squalor — in places as disparate as Silicon Valley and New York
City.
This week Bill points to the changing skyline of Manhattan as
the physical embodiment of how money and power impact the lives and
neighborhoods of every day people. Soaring towers being built at the south end
of Central Park, climbing higher than ever with apartments selling from $30
million to $90 million, are beginning to block the light on the park below.
Many of the apartments are being sold at those sky high prices to the
international super rich, many of whom will only live in Manhattan part-time –
if at all — and often pay little or no city income or property taxes, thanks to
the political clout of real estate developers.
“The real estate industry here in New York City is like the oil
industry in Texas,” affordable housing advocate Jaron Benjamin says, “They outspend everybody… They
often have a much better relationship with elected officials than everyday New
Yorkers do.” Meanwhile, fewer and fewer middle and working class people can
afford to live in New York City. As Benjamin puts it, “Forget about the Statue
of Liberty. Forget about Ellis Island. Forget about the idea of everybody being
welcome here in New York City. This will be a city only for rich people.”
At the end of the show Bill says: “Tell us if you’ve seen some
of these forces eroding the common ground where you live. Perhaps, like some of
the people in our story, you’re making your own voice heard. Share these
experiences at our website, BillMoyers.com.” Please use the comments section
below to do so.
Producer: Gail
Ablow. Segment Producer: Robert Booth.Associate Producer: Alexis
Pancrazi. Editor: Rob Kuhns.
Enjoy
full versions of Moyers & Company shows but also check out Bill Moyers'
ever-expanding library of online-only content.
MOYERS & CO., AETN, NOV. 23, 2014
Full Show: How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats
November 21, 2014 | Moyers & Company
Lawrence
Lessig and Zephyr Teachout return to talk about the corrupting influence of
money in politics, and their push to change the system.
Teachout’s
book: Corruption in America
Lessig’s: Republic,
Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a
Plan to Stop it
Dick’s
Notes:
Citizens and McCutcheon are roads “to paradise for
lobbyists.” The GOP is now the “Guardian
of Privilege.”
Teachout
reminds us that at the Constitutional Convention the main topic was corruption
defined as using public power to benefit private interest. Madison: US to have a government by and for
people, not the rich. Campaign finance
rules were to give the people voice and power.
Citizens and McCutcheon silence the people through
the money of the few.
Teachout, solutions
now: First tell the truth. Reverse C and M. Public financing of elections. Fight monopoly. She intends to run again.
LL: from reformed
capitalism pov, the issue is not 1% v. 99% but those who want competitive
capitalism v. monopoly capit. He will
strive to use his Mayday.Pac to mobilize people.
MOYERS & CO., AETN, NOV. 16, 2014
November
14, 2014 | Moyers & Company
Two college professors leave academia for the
rough-and-tumble world of electoral politics. What did they learn?
Full Show:
The Bare Knuckle Fight Against Money in Politics
November
14, 2014
In this
turbulent midterm election year, two academics decided to practice what they
preached. They left the classroom, confronted the reality of down-and-dirty
politics, and tried to replace moneyed interests with the public interest.
Neither
was successful – this year, at least – but on this week’s show, Bill talks with
them about their experiences and the hard-fought lessons learned about the
state of American democracy.
Lawrence Lessig, who teaches law at Harvard, is a well-known
Internet activist and campaign finance reform advocate. This election cycle, he
started a crowd-funded SuperPAC aimed at reducing the influence of money in
politics. Lessig tells Bill: “Our democracy is flat lined. Because when you can
show clearly there’s no relationship between what the average voter cares
about, only if it happens to coincide with what the economic elite care about,
you’ve shown that we don’t have a democracy anymore.”
Zephyr Teachout, a professor of constitutional and property law
at Fordham Law School, ran against New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo in the
Democratic primary. She received more than a third of the vote and carried 30
of the state’s 62 counties, surprising everyone – including Cuomo. “When you
talk about the corruption in Congress, people are talking about the same thing
that Madison was talking about. This sense that our public servants are just
serving themselves,” Teachout tells Bill.
Producer: Gail Ablow. Segment Producer: Lena
Shemel.Editor: Rob Kuhns. Intro Editor: Sikay
Tang.
TOPICS: Democracy & Government, Money
& Politics
TAGS: 2014, campaign
finance, dark money, elections, lawrence
lessig, superpac, widget,
zephyr
teachout
DICK’S NOTES:
The two
are thoroughly experienced with the failing US electoral system and the urgent
need to rid us of domination by a few rich individuals and companies. Do see it.
MOYERS & CO., AETN, NOV. 9, 2014
On Election Day, a small
California city took on one of the biggest corporations in America… and
declared victory. Read the comments »
Full Show: Facing Down Corporate Election Greed
November 7, 2014
READ THE TRANSCRIPT http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-facing-corporate-greed/
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In the
midst of the midterm elections and the obsession with which party would control
the US Senate, there were races at the local and state level with deeper
implications for the future of the country.
In the
small city of Richmond, California, a slate of progressive candidates faced off
against a challenge from pro-business candidates backed to the tune of more
than $3 million by the energy giant Chevron. For years, Chevron has treated Richmond like
a company town and its large refinery there has been a constant source of
health and safety concerns.
Since
2007, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin,
a Green Party leader, and her allies on the city council have faced down not
only Chevron but other corporate interests like the real estate and financial
industries as well. This year, Chevron fought back with an expensive barrage of
negative campaign media. But on Election Day, the progressive slate triumphed,
despite the roughly $250 per vote Chevron spent.
McLaughlin
– who this year was term limited as mayor but won a city council seat —
and Harriet Blair Rowan, a college student and
journalist who uncovered the Chevron money story for the news website Richmond Confidential, talk with Bill
this week about the role unlimited sums of corporate cash have played in
Richmond. They discuss the great success of the billions spent by wealthy
individuals and companies in other races across the country and how to fight
back, using Richmond’s example as a model for future fights of organized people
versus organized money.
DICK’S
COMMENT:
Moyers
reports the success of secret big money, winning 94% of House races, and 87%?
Of Senate. Rove and Koch bros. bought a
GOP/corp. coups d’etats. See “A Triumph
of Dark Money” at BillMoyers.com.
But not in
Richmond, CA, where the voters overcame Chevron Oil Co.’s $3 million to elect
all of the people’s candidates and defeat all of Chevron’s.
Interviewees: The leader of the people’s campaign is Mayor
Gayle McLaughlin, who won. And a college
undergrad. Investig. Reporter, Harriet Rowan, followed the money to uncover the
Chevron sources of the flood of ads for the people’s candidates.
Optimistic
story of power of organized people.
Critique: A worst case situation
of egregious corporate abuses, nowhere to go but up.
Optimistic
content: Richmond saved people
threatened by foreclosure by purchasing mortgages. McL argues it increases home values, and
therefore city taxes. (Realtors should
be for it, but the National Realtors Assoc. in DC supported Chevron
candidates.)
Citizens
United mentioned at end, Mayor McL sees it as huge source of anti-democratic
abuse.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI...
Cornell University
Jul 15, 2013 - Hazard or Hardship. Hilgert finds that the protection
of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor
standards, is a ...
www.jeffreyhilgert.com/
His book Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global
Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work received the 2014 Best Book in Human
Rights Award from the ...
sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/.../sf.sou009.extract
Social Forces
by T Bartley - 2014
Feb 20, 2014 - Hazard or Hardship uncovers an
important path-not-taken in the world ... But, as Hilgert shows, a rights-based approach to health and safety
is ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjir.../abstract
John Wiley & Sons
by M Quinlan - 2014
May 7, 2014 - Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global
Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work, by Jeffrey Hilgert . ILR Press, Ithaca, NY,
2013, 224 pp., ISBN: ...
www.la.psu.edu › Events
Pennsylvania State University
Jan 24, 2014 - ... Workers'
Rights Speaker Event: " Hazard
or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms ... Jeffrey Hilgert, Assistant Professor in the
School of Industrial ...
Also positively reviewed in The
Catholic Worker (Oct.-Nov. 2014) by Tom Cornell. --Dick
This article includes news of the internal conflict within the ACLU. Former ACLU leaders disagree with the current
leadership on thE issue of Corporate Free $peech/Citizens United. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/05/historic-moment-us-senate-set-vote-campaign-finance-amendment
Contents US Capitalism Newsletter
#20
US Capitalism Today
Film Shadows of Liberty Showing Oct. 18 at OMNI, 2p.m.: the arena for public
expression has become a private profit zone. Donations to the filmmaker and OMNI will be welcome.
expression has become a private profit zone. Donations to the filmmaker and OMNI will be welcome.
Recent Moyers & Co. Interviews
William Black, Bank Regulator
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Economist
Jim Hightower, Editor of The Hightower Lowdown
Charles Lewis, Founder of Center for
Public Integrity
Jeff Madrick, How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the
World
World
Two films on the Koch Brothers
Dean Baker, US Financial
Inequality
Fritjof Capra, Unifying Vision of
Alternative to Capitalism
Watch for forthcoming newsletter
on climate change and US capitalism.
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