Thanks, President Bush, for taking care of the problem! Now all let's get back to our wasteful, ignorant, self-indulgent American lives! Let's add another new big screen TV to the credit card! What else is a reader of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch supposed to think when scanning this headline: "Stock…
The recent set of no-bid contracts to big oil corporations, gaining them cheap access to Iraqi oil fields, is Exhibit A. Yes, the Iraq invasion was all about oil all along. Here's how Bill Moyers sums it up: Perhaps those sweetheart deals in Iraq should be added to his proposed…
Bill Moyers has some sharp comments for those who believe that the Free Market offers free, effortless and unrivaled wisdom: [W]hen you worship market forces as if they were the gods of Olympus, then the gods can do no wrong - until, of course, they prove to be human. Then…
This is great news! The U.S. Senate has slapped down the FCC's December 2007 invitation to allow big media corporations to further consolidate their media holdings. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), a co-sponsor of the bill disapproving of the FCC invitation to further consolidate big media, had urged the House to…
Bill Moyers recently interviewed Benjamin Barber, a renowned political theorist and a distinguished senior fellow at Demos — a public policy think tank here in New York City. Barber's most recent book is Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (2007). What's the focus of this book?…