I have discussed a number of times the union organizing campaign at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. So, as the ballot counting is now underway, I thought today we could …
Episode 219: A Social Fund For The Planet’s Poor; Challenging A Corporate Mouthpiece
I’ve spent a lot of time on the crisis facing workers around the world who before the pandemic even hit us faced some pretty dire economic realities. Tomorrow, a high-level …
Episode 218: There Is No Debt Crisis; Taking Down A California Corporate Democrat
It’s those zombie voices again. The ones who rise up from the dead, or from a hidden policy corner, to start the drumbeat of fear about “debt” and “deficits”, …
Episode 216: Wealth Tax On The Table; Two Trillion for The Global Poor; Joe Biden and Union Organizing
The number that sticks in my mind today, and has since I heard it, is 40 percent. While over half a million people in the U.S. have died of …
Episode 215: Big Pharma Wants Poor People To Die; Unions Fighting Myanmar Coup—Redux
You aren’t going to be surprised by this news: Big Pharma is killing people. All over the world. And the real kicker here is: after you, the taxpayer, gave billions …
Episode 214: YOUR Four Talking Points For $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage; Alabama Is Amazon Unionizing Ground Zero
Right before our eyes, in these very days and at this time of crisis, you can see so clearly this bankrupt system, defended and promoted by greedy CEOs and spineless …
Episode 213: Bi-Partisanship Kills; Amazon Workers Organize!; Unions Confronting Myanmar Coup
“Bi-partisanship” is an idea that should make everyone sick to their stomach. When someone is out to kill you, or your nation and community, making a deal for the sake …
Episode 212: Unemployment Money Chaos Redux?; Clawing Back Dough From The Rich
How many of you dealt with that chaos when it came to wrestling with the unemployment insurance system last year? Some of the rhetoric we heard was, “well that chaos …
Episode 211: What Corporate Interests Are Infiltrating The Biden World; Global Inequality At Record Levels
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of …
Episode 210: Is Europe Taking Climate Change “Just Transition” More Seriously?
I am guessing everyone who listens to this show considers himself or herself an environmentalist and cares about the planet. You believe in science—a shocking notion—so you get the climate …