Bill Moyers spoke at Boston University a week or so ago, on the occasion of the the first Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture. Here’s video, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Watch this video on YouTube You can find a full transcript at TruthOut.org, but here’s my favorite part. …Yet the isolation continues […]
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Bill Moyers on plutocracy
Posted in Economics, Politics Also tagged A People’s History of the United States, Bill Moyers, Boston Univeristy, Citigroup, economic crash, Edward R. Murrow, get the money out of Washington, Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn Lecture Series, money in politics, Plutocracy, plutonomists, plutonomy, Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer, rich get richer, Roger D. Hodge, the growing gap between rich and poor, the veneration of wealth 11 Comments
U-M helps expose vulnerability in electronic voting system
Earlier this month, I told you about a University of Michigan team headed by Professor J. Alex Halderman that successfully hacked their way into a new electronic voting system launched by the D.C. Board of Elections. By altering vote counts, and having the electronic voting machines in D.C. play the Michigan fight song every time […]
Are corporations people? And is it their birthright to buy elections?
Continuing our conversation from a few days ago on corporate personhood, I thought that I’d pass along this new video from Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig’s organization Fix Congress First. The piece is entitled, “Are corporations people?” And, speaking of the stranglehold that corporations have on the American electorate, did you happen to see that […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Economics, Free Speech, Politics Also tagged Add new tag, are corporations people, Bank of America, Citigroup, corporate personhood, corporate speech, Fix Congress First, get the money out of Washington, Lawrence Lessig, lemon socialism, Obama, Paul Krugman, public funding of elections, Wall Street bailouts, Wall Street bonuses, Wall Street deregulation 10 Comments