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.
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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
Video: Wikileaks Releases Kissinger Cables and Two Decisions in Manning Trial
12 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Michael Ratner: Kissinger files show important role Wikileaks continues to play revealing real history of US foreign policy; Judge makes one decision favorable to Manning, one not Continue reading
Video: The Message of MLK, Bradley Manning and the Collateral Murder Video
10 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Michael Ratner: Anniversary of King’s “Beyond Vietnam Speech” and release of Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” video – April 10, 13 Continue reading
Video: Under Thatcher, the Poor Became Poorer
9 April 2013 — The Real News Network
John Weeks: Thatcher and Reagan set out to crush the union movement and assert the power of capital Continue reading
Video: Michael Hudson – Thatcher Gave More Power to Finance
9 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Michael Hudson: Thatcher deregulated banking and made London the center of speculation and financialization – April 9, 2013
