In this educational video Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff defines public debt & money printing. Prof. Wolff also talks about the role that corporate banks play in this system as well as how politicians can misuse and exploit this mechanism in order to garner political capital or justify wars.
So, he’s back. George W. Bush leaves his Dallas attic and his paintbrushes to visit the television studios. He has a book to flog—Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors.
The journalistic monitoring group Airwars says dozens of civilians have reportedly been killed in Iraq over the last week by airstrikes carried out by either the U.S.-led coalition or the U.S.-backed Iraqi military. On April 4, 20 civilians, including children, were reportedly killed in west Mosul by airstrikes.
This video is a 40-minute interview that we held with Noam Chomsky at the end of 2015, in which we discussed American Hegemony in Europe – past & present state.
On the 25th of May, we are planning to cover an event in Berlin that is being organized by the pan-Euorpean progressive movement founded by Yanis Varoufakis called Democracy in Europe Movement ( Diem25.official). This will include a report as well as an interview with Yanis Varoufakis in English & German.
FULL EVENT VIDEO: Freedom & Democracy – Global Issues in Context At the end of the Second World War a new era of globalization of capital and production began that continues on today and is enforced through manifold free trade agreements. Another turning point was 9/11. Since then, an increased military presence and an expanding […]
This video produced by Democracy Now! and moderated by Amy Good is discussion between Yazan al-Saadi, a Syrian-Canadian writer, Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CodePink, Alia Malek, journalist and former human rights lawyer, and Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies about the recent US attack in Syria, the policies of the Trump administration in the Middle East as well as the geopolitical and historical role that the US has played in the region.
Over half a million Syrians are dead. Half the population is displaced. Aerial bombardment by the Americans, the Russians, the Syrians and others continues to devastate Syria and Iraq. The Americans recently admitted to a major atrocity in Mosul, where 200 civilians have been killed.
In this interview with the senior editor and founder of The Real News Network, Paul Jay, we examine the role of the mainstream media and how it covers underlying issues that shape and mold our society. In addition we examine the responsibility of the viewer & reader while consuming news and find out about the plans that The Real News Network has to approach people locally as well informing the international community about environmental issues.