4 November 2013 — The Real News Network
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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Video: UK’s Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
4 November 2013 — The Real News Network
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
Video: What's Putin's Interest In Syria?
13 September 2013 — The Real News Network
Aleksandr Buzgalin: Putin’s aims in Syria through a domestic lens
Video: South Africa's Largest Union on the Verge of Major Split
18 August 2013 — The Real News Network
Patrick Bond: South Africa trade unions become magnets for capital as an ideological confict masked as a sex scandal threatens to fracture union behind the one-year-old massacre (inc. transcript)
Video: Instead of Recovery British Economy Shows Signs of Stagnation
11 August 2013 — The Real News Network
John Weeks: “British Press tries to vindicate austerity and budget cuts as “signs of economic recovery.”
Video: Bradley Manning, the Nuremberg Charter and Refusing to Collaborate with War Crimes – Pt 3 of 4
9 August 2013 — The Real News Network
In this segment of Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay and Vijay Prashad discuss the Bradley Manning case in light of the 68th anniversary of signing the Nuremberg Charter which states it is illegal to follow orders to commit a war crime (inc. transcript)
Video: Vijay Prashad: Marx and Tolstoy Helped Me See the Limits of Liberalism
6 August 2013 — The Real News Network
On the second episode of Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Vijay Prashad talks about growing up in India and coming to the realization that liberalism could never eliminate poverty (inc. transcript).
Video: Manning Conviction Serious Blow To Govt Whistleblowers
1 August 2013 — The Real News Network
Michael Ratner: Bradley Manning’s conviction demonstrates Obama administration’s ‘War on Whistleblowers’ in full effect
Video: U.S. Allies Violate Int. Law Pursuing Snowden
7 July 2013 — The Real News Network
Mark Weisbrot: Forced landing of Bolivia president’s plane and other tactics show that Snowden needs to speak directly to the public to get political asylum (inc transcript)
US Claims of Chemical Weapons Use By Syria A Pretext for Arming Rebels
20 June 2013 — The Real News Network
Pt 1. Omar Dahi: Despite escalating humanitarian catastrophe, G8 summit failed to advance diplomatic settlement (inc. transcript)
Video: Edward Snowden: War on Whistleblowers “Only Builds Better Whistleblowers”
18 June 2013 — The Real News Network
Larry Wilkerson: Snowden’s expertise allowed him to understand the threat of the NSA’s surveillance programs on civil liberties – government power exercised in secret will be abused (inc. transcript)
Video: Obama Defends “Big Brother” Powers
8 June 2013 — The Real News Network
Larry Wilkerson: The NSA’s illegal gathering of almost all means of communication sacrifices privacy without improving national security
Video: Global Protest in 300 Cities Will Take Aim on Monsanto
25 May 2013 — The Real News Network
Today hundreds of thousands of people are expected to challenge Monsanto’s bullying of small farmers, influence on public policy, and aggressive promotion of GMOs.
Video: Justice Department Redefines Terrorism by Putting Assata Shakur on FBI List
10 May 2013 — The Real News Network
Michael Ratner: Upping the reward and renewing interest in Assata Shakur, is aimed at labeling any use of violence with a political character as terrorism – even if the target is not a civilian.
Video: How Class Works – Richard Wolff Examines Class
5 May 2013 — The Real News Network
Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all about and applies that understanding to the foreclosure crisis of 2007–2011. He argues that class concerns the “way our society splits up the output [and] leaves those who get the profits in the position of deciding and figuring out what to do with them… We all live with the results of what a really tiny minority in our society decides to do with the profits everybody produces.”
Video: Privatizing Europe
24 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism (inc. transcript)
Video: Study Debunking Austerity Research Sparks Wide Reaction
23 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Bob Pollin (Co-Author of Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff): Deficit Hawks still defend conclusions of a study that contained spreadsheet errors and weighted selected countries in an inappropriate way; led to incorrect theory about public debt and growth (Inc. transcript).
Growing Voices Among Palestinians Calling for a Single Democratic Secular State
17 April 2013 — The Real News Network
With negotiations for a two state solution going nowhere, more Palestinians are calling for a single state solution
Video: Two Visions of Venezuela Contend in April 14th Elections
12 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Miguel Tinker Salas: The Presidential elections in Venezuela will decide if the socialist transformation will continue or a pro-US elite will return to power Continue reading
Video: Venezuelan Democracy: A Tension Between Centralized Power and Local Democracy
12 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Manuel Larrabure: The Bolivarian Revolution succeeded in developing models of community power and reduced inequality but so far has failed to diversify the economy or extend workers democracy in the oil and mining sector
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