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Bill Moyers: FCC May Give Murdoch a Very Merry Christmas - Two of the Last...
From BillMoyers.com (Preview of Moyers' interview broadcast for this weekend with Sen. Bernie Sanders on media consolidation at the bottom of this article):Until now, this hasn’t been the best year for...
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Bill Moyers: Washington's Corruption Is Hazardous to Our Health
We’ve seen how Washington insiders write the rules of politics and the economy to protect powerful special interests, but now as we enter the holiday season, and a month or so after the election, we’re...
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Bill Moyers: Remember The Victims of Sandy Hook, and Reject the Violence
FromBIllMoyers.com:The bells rang for the lost: Charlotte Bacon, Olivia Engel, Ana Marquez-Greene, Dylan Hockley, Madeline Hsu, Catherine Hubbard, Jesse Lewis, James Mattioli, Emilie Parker, Jack...
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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: We’d All Be Packing Heat If the NRA Had Its Way
From BillMoyers.com:We wrote and spoke about guns just a few days before Christmas, following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. So did Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association. His now...
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Paul Krugman Talks to Bill Moyers About How to Speed Recovery -- And Why He...
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that saving money is not the path to economic recovery. Instead, he tells Bill Moyers, we should put aside our excessive...
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The Shady Inside Deals That Are Protecting Goldman Sachs at Your Expense
In economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s book, End This Depression Now!, there’s a chapter titled “The Second Gilded Age” in which he describes the extraordinary rise in wealth and...
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Bill Moyers: We Must Fix the Senate
FromBillMoyers.com:When a political party’s in the majority, it wants to change the filibuster… until it falls from power and winds up the minority. Then it suddenly becomes the filibuster’s biggest...
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Big Pharma Buys Off The Senate
The inauguration of a president is one of those spectacles of democracy that can make us remember we’re part of something big and enduring. So for a few hours this past Monday, the pomp and...
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Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi: Everyone Pays If the Banksters Don't Go to Jail
From Bill Moyers.com:Journalist Matt Taibbi assesses the Obama Administration’s approach to holding banks accountable for their behavior, and early indications are not promising. Taibbi tells Bill that...
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Barack Obama, Drone Ranger
If you’ve seen the movie Zero Dark Thirty, you know why it has triggered a new debate over our government’s use of torture after 9/11.The movie’s up for an Oscar as best motion picture. We’ll know...
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Bill Moyers: Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair
BILL MOYERS: You’ve heard me before quote one of my mentors who told his students that “news is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity.” That’s why two books are rattling the...
View ArticleBill Moyers: When We Kill Without Caring
From BillMoyers.com:Last week, the New York Times published a chilling account of how indiscriminate killing remains bad policy even today. This time, it's done not by young G.I.'s in the field but by...
View ArticleAmerica's Outrageous Imperial Drone Warfare
Last week, The New York Times published a chilling account of how indiscriminate killing in war remains bad policy even today. This time, it’s done not by young GIs in the field but by anonymous...
View ArticleMoyers: Rampant Capitalism Has Created a Social Disaster -- How Do We Right...
The public rescued the One Percenters after the financial crisis and now their wealth is skyrocketing once again. But what about the rest of us?
View ArticleMoyers & Winship: Here's an Idea -- Let's Tax the Earnings of Politicians...
It’s a wonder all of Washington doesn’t lie prostrate in the streets, overcome by vertigo from all the spinning back and forth.
View ArticleBill Moyers: Why Are We Giving the Silent Treatment to the Crisis Which Could...
Global warming is a planetary emergency on that should be on every politician’s mind, so why are any of us still silent? And what can we do about it?
View ArticleBill Moyers: Are the Monster Banks on the Verge of Unleashing Fresh Economic...
Culture change in the financial world may be coming, but not fast enough says banking expert Shelia Blair.
View ArticleMoyers: Imagine If America Had Adopted Martin Luther King's Economic Dream
A discussion on King’s vision of economic justice, and how so little has changed for America’s most oppressed.
View ArticleMartin Luther King's Greatest Dream Has Been Obscured by the Marble Monuments...
The Reverend dreamed of economic equality and happiness for ALL.
View ArticleBill Moyers: We Are Living in the United States of Inequality
"A petty, narcissistic, pridefully ignorant politics has come to dominate and paralyze our government."
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Bill Moyers: A Mother's War Against Toxic Trespassers
With government captured by the very industries it’s supposed to regulate, the time for direct action is now.From Billmoyers.com.BILL MOYERS: Welcome.This week in the streets of Boston, we were...
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How We Ended Up with the Worst Congress Money Can Buy
Failed gun control legislation and a fertilizer plant explosion reveal how poisoned by big money our government is. This piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com.If you want to see why the public...
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Bill Moyers & Glenn Greenwald on the High Cost of Government Secrecy
Columnist Glenn Greenwald explains what the Boston bombings and U.S. se of government power.This first appeared on BillMoyers.com.BILL MOYERS:Welcome. In the aftermath of the Boston bombings and the...
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We Can't Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence Our Great Democracy
Drop your weapons and celebrate that we live in a country where peaceful change is still possible. This article first appeared on BillMoyers.com:We were struck this week by one response to our...
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Moyers/Winship: Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally
As long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its powerful lobbies, we are at their mercy.From BillMoyers.com:At the end of a week that reminds us to be ever vigilant about...
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Going to Jail to Save the Wild from Oil and Gas Drilling
Tim DeChristopher bid at auction for drilling rights to protect 150,000 acres of Utah's wilderness -- and paid the price.So if we now have representative government in name only, and are governed...
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Bill Moyers: The American Legislative Exchange Council Is Hard at Work...
In state legislatures around the country, boilerplate ALEC legislation that dilutes collective bargaining rights, blocks Americans from voting, and limits corporate liability is passing without the...
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Bill Moyers: Outrageous Bill Known As “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism...
So-called "ag-gag" laws have been passed in several states. Muckrakers and activists have been working to expose the brutality of industrialized meat production since Upton Sinclair’s writing of The...
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Bill Moyers and Rep. John Lewis: 50 Years After the March on Washington,...
“To look out and see the best of America convinced me more than anything else that this is the product, this is the work of the movement,” Civil Rights Leader Lewis tells Moyers.From BillMoyers.com:...
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Moyers: 50 Million Go Hungry Each Day
Debates on how to address hunger are filled with clichés about freeloaders undeserving of government help. But the documentary "A Place at the Table" paints a truer picture of America’s poor.Here in...
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Renowned Farmer and Writer Wendell Berry: Confronting the Consequences of...
In a rare television interview, this visionary author, environmentalist and farmer discusses a sensible, but no-compromise plan to save the Earth.Transcript is available below the video. BILL MOYERS:...
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Bill Moyers: The Right-Wing Govt. Shutdown Is a Sabotage of Our Democracy
"Like the die-hards of the racist South a century and a half ago, who would destroy the Union before giving up their slaves, so would these people burn the place down...."From BillMoyers.com:BILL...
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This Is Democracy?! Billionaires Flooding Campaign Coffers of Greedy Virginia...
Money distorts democracy. Exhibit A: Virginia. If you want to see how grossly money can distort democracy, just go to the state of Virginia, where there are no limits on how big a check can be written...
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The Lies That Will Kill America
Ideology and self-interest trump the facts or even caring about the facts, whether it’s banking, Obamacare or global warming.Here in Manhattan the other day, you couldn’t miss it — the big bold...
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Bill Moyers: Technology Is Turning Society into Something We Experience...
A fascinating interview with Sherry Turkle an expert on the growing human interaction and dependence on technology. From BillMoyers.com:If you think a lot of people are looking down these days, it’s...
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We Live in an Era of Zombie Politics: Bill Moyers Interviews Henry Giroux
Giroux's new book highlights the rapacious rise of casino capitalism.This interview originally appeared on Moyers & Company, and is crossposted here with permission.In his book, Zombie Politics and...
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Bill Moyers and Michelle Alexander on the Racist Plague of Mass Incarceration...
What it will take to build a more just society.There are more African Americans under correctional control today ̶ in prison or jail, on probation or parole ̶ than were enslaved in 1850, a decade...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells Bill Moyers Why Faith and Reason are Irreconcilable
'Some myths deserve to be broken apart out of respect for the human intellect.'In a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Moyers explored a variety of topics,...
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Diane Ravitch Tells Bill Moyers Why School Privatization Is Turning into a...
The high cost of turning schools into profit centers.Public education is becoming big business as bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity investors are entering what they consider to be an...
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Bill Moyers: 'We Are This Close to Losing Our Democracy to the Mercenary Class'
The great journalist sounds the alarm about the rise of the plutocracy and the shredding of the social contract.To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates...
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