As far as I am concerned, the NRA needs to pack its bags and go away. Bill Moyers says it better than I could right now. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Bill Moyers, Gun Violence, Remember the Victims
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CuriosityCat: Justin Trudeau & The Middle Class: Justin, read Winner-Take-All Politics if you are serious
My advice to Justin Trudeau and his team if he is serious about standing up for the middle class, is to buy a copy of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why are we killing kids that don’t need to die? – Bill Moyers Essay
I’m struck by the casual nature of the media when it comes to reporting on imperial wars. Casualties are tallied, the right words are said, but then off we go to the next soundbite. Time for reflection and contemplation is becoming (has become) a lost art. Louder, Bigger, and Faster
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moyers & Company – Plutocracy Rising
“Across America, this divide between the superrich and everyone else has become a yawning chasm and studies indicate it may stifle jobs and growth for years to come. At no time in modern history has the top one hundredth of one percent owned more of our wealth or paid so
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Attitudes Toward The Poor
“The more wealth you have, the more focused on your own self and your own needs you become, and the less attuned to the needs of other people you also become.” So says social psychologist Paul Piff in response to a study Chronicle of Philanthropy report on charitable giving, discussed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hedges on Occupy
Excerpt from the Alter.net transcript of the Moyers/Hedges conversation. BILL MOYERS: “They lost control of the park. The arrival in cold weather of individual tents, along with the numerous street people with mental impairment and addictions,” that you’re nothing if not honest in what you write, even about those people
Continue reading350 or bust: Vandana Shiva: A “Dinosaur” Mentality Guides The Planet Right Now
One of the best interviewers on television, Bill Moyers, speaks to one of the global sustainability movement’s “superstars”, physicist and food activist Vandana Shiva. The discussion is wide-ranging but centers around genetically modified seeds/foods and the fight against corporate agro-giant Monsanto: These seeds — considered “intellectual property” by the big
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