The Plutocracy Report – 05.11.18

The tenth installment of The Plutocracy Report begins with Vince ranting about the need to demand a new, simple, fair and equal tax system. It’s time for us to unite, make demands as a majority and finally be involved in the government process. After that he explores how the righties are seeing Trump as a hero in a delusional haze …

The Working Life Podcast: FORGET ISIS. AMAZON IS THE (ECONOMIC) TERRORIST TO FEAR

ISIS poses virtually no threat to you in your home. The same can’t be said for Amazon. Amazon really is an economic terrorist. That’s what I spend most of the podcast this week digging into—after laying out the picture of the sorry spectacle of cities and states begging Amazon to locate its new headquarters in one of their communities, I …

EPISODE 67: THE GLOBAL SUPER-WEALTHY MOTTO–GET RICH WHILE MILLIONS DIE

The super-wealthy keep getting richer and, while they are human beings, they just don’t seem to care how many people die or go hungry while billionaires party on. That’s the only conclusion you can come to after reading a new stunning report about global wealth and inequality out from Oxfam–and I delve into the report with Oxfam’s Paul O’Brien. I also chat …

Black Agenda Radio – 01.29.18

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Baltimore police officers are on trial, charged with corruption and abusive of power so massive and blatant, a former police chief compares them to 1930s gangsters; And, one of the former political prisoners known as the Soledad …

Visionaries – 01.29.17

Visionaries – 01.29.18 January 29, 2018 “A Reading List: Part 3.” Today Lobell continues with his list of audiobooks chats about each one. Today we briefly mention books I am just starting: – The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence by Amir Husain – 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson – Leonardo da Vinci by …

Meria Heller – Meria with Bev Conover of Intrepid Report – 01.14.18

Meria with Bev Conover, Editor,Publisher of Intrepid Report; Year wrap up;Intrepid Report online since 1998;what got her started;1998 she was covering Clinton’s illegal bills; trump & Wolff’s book; Bannon; Can’t fix stupid;Diane Feinstein’s release of the dossier testimony;Darrell Issa retiring like most GOP; trumps henchmen at 7-11’s and Motel 6’s; deportations;Russian anchor babies and trump palace; prayer meetings? destroying history in …

Black Agenda Radio – 11.13.17

Download this episode (right click and save) Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: a Black radical candidate explains how you can run a winning political campaign, even if you lose the election; and first, they stole the people’s right to vote, in Detroit, …

The Conspiracy Guy – 07.05.17

Conspiracy Guy Show #32: Putin confronting Trump over rampant pedophelia in the US, especially among the political elites. (Putin has banned the adoption of Russian children by US parents to protect them from sexual abuse.) Brat Pitt has laid out the problem from Hollywood to Washington, D.C., where children are used as bartering chips and manipulated to promote power and …

Chandra Muzaffar – Widening Economic and Social Inequalities, Billionaires Alongside the Global Impoverishment of the Human Family

It is not surprising that the Davos Forum held in the middle of January 2017 chose not to examine the obscene, grotesque, ever widening economic inequalities in the world brought to its attention  by Oxfam, the global aid and development confederation. Oxfam revealed on the 15th of January that “the richest eight tycoons on the planet are worth as much …