#1323 Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control
Air Date: 12–07-2019
Today we take a look at the reaction to decades of the fetishization of privatization in the form of a reinvigorated movement for public ownership of institutions meant to serve the public such as utilities, banks, train systems and so on. But this isn't your grandfather's top-down public ownership, the new movement has bottom-up, accountable, democratic control of institutions at the very core of its mission.
Read more#1322 Freedom of Speech vs Freedom of Reach (Regulating Facebook)
Air Date: 12–04-2019
Today we take a look at some solutions to our social media problems of fake news, propaganda and hate in all forms spreading like wildfire through society
Read more#1321 Decolonization is for Everyone
Air Date: 11–23-2019
Today we take a look at just a few forms the decolonization movement is taking from finance to cartography to the internet and beyond.
Read more#1320 The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Neoliberalism
Air Date: 11–20-2019
Today we take a look at how Neoliberalism was born, how it was maintained and why it is on the verge of collapse.
Read more#1319 Democrats and Plutocrats, Wealth Tax and Wall Street
Air Date: 11–15-2019
Today we take a look at the proposals from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for a Wealth Tax and how those proposals run afoul of not just Republican Fats Cats but Democratic Fat Cats as well
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