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Top Secret America — 19 Jul 2010 — (1) Bill Arkin, co-author of a series of reports in The Washington Post titled "Top Secret America," outlines the work and the findings. (2) Investigative journalist Tim Shorrock, author of Spies for
Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing, wonders why it took the Post so many years to finally look at this story. He adds his own information to the Big Brother picture.
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Spies for Hire
Annie Leonard / Free Range Studios
The Story of Cosmetics — 21 Jul 2010 — Another excellent piece from Annie Leonard's "Story of" series, this time taking on personal care products. Unless you check your labels carefully---and avoid products with ingredients you can't recognize or even pronounce---the shampoo, makeup, and other products on your shelves are almost sure to contain a variety of toxics.
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The Real News Network
Bill Black: Goldman Sachs Fine No Deterrence — 17 Jul 2010 — The recent SEC fine of Goldman Sachs was the biggest such penalty in history. Still, says Bill Black, when measured against Goldman's illicit profits and executive compensation, it's paltry, and it's no deterrence to future wrongdoing on Wall Street.
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Against the Grain
Keeping the Record on Mining Honest — 07 Jul 2010 — Beyond the environmental toll of mining, there is a human toll. "Dark and forbidding" is a phrase that describes the lives of many miners, who often toil for unconscionably low wages in one of the most dangerous industries in the world. Labor activist Mark Nowak discusses the propaganda war that keeps mining's profile low and its problems in forgotten corners of the social consciousness.
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NPR / Morning Edition
Massey Miners: Disabling Monitors Was Common — 16 Jul 2010 — At the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, a methane explosion in April killed 29 workers. It turns out that the company made a practice of disabling methane detectors to avoid production delays.
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Media Minutes
Ever-Rising Internet/Cable Bills — 16 Jul 2010 — Media activists warn that insufficient regulatory oversight has resulted in higher cable and internet service prices, and the proposed Comcast-NBC merger will further this trend. ~~ In North Carolina, an industry-written bill to ban municipal broadband was killed by the legislature.
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Max Keiser
Malfeasance Parallels — 19 Jun 2010 — Max and Stacy discuss ... Financial malfeasance on Wall Street vs. ecological malfeasance in the Gulf of Mexico ~~ How elected officials do the bank/corps' bidding by bailing out their messes and transferring the burden to the "small people" via future tax liabilities ~~ The rise of economic serfdom
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Between The Lines
Corporate Media is Killing Itself — 14 Jun 2010 — John Nichols explains how corporate media is so profit-driven that it is cutting its talent so severely that it is delivering a product fewer and fewer people want. He says we need to derail the momentum towards a propaganda state and create a media that respects us as citizens and does not lie to us.
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The Real News Network
Ralph Nader: The Rise of Informed Indignation — 12 Jun 2010 — Nader discusses the weak regulatory changes being proposed for financial institutions and says the American public needs to engage in a peaceful revolution to take back sovereignty from corporations, in particular big banks.
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Guns and Butter
Ellen Brown: The Financial Hijacking of America — 09 Jun 2010 — Brown provides a brief history of banking and different ways to "create money." She discusses the Federal Reserve, bubbles and crashes, market manipulation, and recent changes in banking and accounting rules.
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Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal
Before BP — 06 Jun 2010 — Mumia recounts the days of the BP corporation as part of the British empire—a century before the company adopted the trendy "BP" name.
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IndyMedia Radio / Guardian UK
Stitching It Up In Secret--Elitists' Bilderberg Conference in Spain — 05 Jun 2010 — A rundown of what little is known about the annual meeting of the group of Powers-That-Be titans knows as the Bilderbergers.
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Keiser Report / Russia Today — 01 Jun 2010 —
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the astonishing parallels between the crises in the Gulf of Mexico and in the global financial system, from the "advanced technologies" used; the corporate malfeasance and lax regulatory environments that vastly increased the potential for the problems to grow to enormous proportions; and inept and duplicitous responses from all parties involved. Brilliant commentary!
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The Real News
William Engdahl: The Gods of Money — 01 Jun 2010 — As Germany wrestles with the rest of the EU and the Wall Street banks, William Engdahl says we're seeing the final, horrible outcome in the US of the "dollarization" strategy begun in the 1970s. Other topics include the failed UK financial dream, Las Vegas money laundering, and the myth of the Green Shoots.
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One Radio Network
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Andrew Gause: Bankers and the Civil War — 29 May 2010 — Andy talks about the role that the hegemony of Northern banks played in the civil war, and why Lafayette was really fighting on our side. Other topics covered include the benefits of state banks, the logic of current and future gold/silver prices, and how the big banks leveraged the bailout money into an amount of working capital nearly 10 times the original amount.
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Goldman Sachs, Undeclared Enemy of the State — 25 May 2010 — (1) Max Keiser asks whether Goldman Sachs understand the difference between providing market liquidity and perpetrating market fraud. (2) Jim Rickards says that nations need to start fighting back against the financial war mongers, and that Goldman Sachs is an enemy of the state on the same effective level as Al Qaeda.
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Guns and Butter
Michel Chossudovsky: The Global Economic Crisis—The Great Depression of the Twenty-First Century — 26 May 2010 — Chossudovsky gives a very good summary of the domination of national governments by banking elites and the intentional crisis that they have wrought. He says it's time we take a stand; the alternative is total impoverishment.
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Selected commentaries, 19 May 2010 — Mumia offers a commentary the role of courts in protecting corporate polluters.
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One Radio Network
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Andrew Gause: Halliburton's Amazing Coincidence — 15 May 2010 — Gause explains how the $1 trillion EU bailout is being partially funded by the US via the federal reserve. He also comments on the interesting coincidence that one week before the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, ultra-connected Halliburton bought one of the world's most prominent oil-disaster response firms. Hmmm....
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William K. Black: SDI's and Fraud — 15 May 2010 — (1) Gregory T. Weldon discusses Europe's problems. (2) William K. Black talks about the rampant fraud and criminality among the big financial-market players. Over the last decade, the game changed to pure fraud. Black also discusses SDIs—systemically dangerous institutions—which have gotten larger and more dangerous since the crisis began.
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Straight Talk / S. Africa Radio 786
Max Keiser: Rigged Markets, Financial Terrorists, and Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction — 19 May 2010 — Max Keiser makes some excellent points about how things really are in the world of financial markets. It's the big bankers, the financial speculators, and their government minions against the rest of us, and we're getting our wallets cleaned out.
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Jim Hightower
Selected Hightower commentaries for week ending 07 May 2010...
Tax Dodging for Fun and Profit
...OR... G.E.—We bring good loopholes to life.
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Goldman Sachs Shows Us Its Abacus
...OR... Ahhh... Inscrutable financial wizardry really just fraud
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Who Would Want This Job?
...OR... Scheming to further shaft the shafted
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Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal
04 May 2010
Union Busting Rio Tinto Style
...OR... Squeezing the turnips, ever squeezing...
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Democracy Now
Wall Street Banks: Bailout vs. Jail-Out — 28 Apr 2010 — Danny Schechter's new film—Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time—examines Wall Street as a criminal operation. This clip features an interview with Schechter and a few clips from his film. The song at the end is called "Economic Meltdown."
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Flashpoints
Michael Parenti/Victor Hansen: Debate on the State of US Imperialism — 27 Apr 2010 — Author and social critic Michael Parenti debates military historian Victor Hansen about the state of US imperialism and globalization. Hansen presents the "benevolent global uncle" version of things; Parenti presents the harder-to-follow but more accurate portrayal of the US as the exploitation arm of transnational corporations.
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Guns and Butter
Russ Baker: Infiltration, Influence, and Illusion — 21 Apr 2010 — Russ Baker gives a sampling of the deep, dark connections between top figures in corporations and politics—on both sides of the political spectrum. Nothing is what it seems on the surface.
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Family of Secrets (by Russ Baker)
Democracy Now
Looking Back at Bolivia's Water War — 19 Apr 2010 — Jim Shultz, founder of the Cochabamba-based Democracy Center, gives a snapshot of Bolivia ten years after Bechtel attempted privatization of Cochabamba's water supply.
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Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization
Free Speech Radio News
Nomi Prins on SEC Lawsuit Against Goldman Sachs and Accountability on Wall Street — 19 Apr 2010 — Former investment banker Nomi Prins comments on the substance and implications of the SEC's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. Besides being flawed and rather late in the game, it does nothing to address the continuing broader problem of rampant speculation and lack of accountability for mistakes.
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It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
Sierra Club Radio
Change Chevron Campaign — 17 Apr 2010 — More than two decades ago, Chevron pulled out of its drilling operations in Ecuador, leaving a horrendous legacy of pollution for Amazon inhabitants. After 17 years of legal battles, the local people, who are still being harmed by the pollution hot spots, are adding public and shareholder pressure to bring about justice.
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Bill Moyers Journal
The Interlocking Oligopoly — 16 Apr 2010 — Simon Johnson and James Kwak discuss how Big Finance grew so powerful, detail its role in the advent of "casino capitalism," and explain how the big Wall Street banks are now avoiding true reform by buying off our elected officials in the federal government.
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Book: 13 Bankers (on Amazon)
Article: How the Bubble Barons Protected Their Influence While the Economy Tanked
Agroinnovations
Michael Shuman: The Small-Mart Revolution — 05 & 12 Apr 2010 — In part 1, Michael Shuman discusses the economic development policies of various levels of government around the United States (which is typically to favor large, non-local business at the expense of small, localized businesses). In part 2, Shuman discusses strategies for buying local, opportunities for local entrepreneurs, the prospects for relocalizing capital markets, and strategies for policy making.
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Michael Shuman book:
The Small-Mart Revolution
Democracy Now
Matt Taibbi: Looting Main Street — 12 Apr 2010 — Journalist Matt Taibbi details how the nation's biggest banks have been ripping off American cities with predatory deals. (Related: Taibbi's article)
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One Radio Network
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John Perkins: An Economic Hit Man Hoodwinked — 06 Apr 2010 — Perkins' topics include: How Latin America is slowly throwing off the yoke of American corporate hegemony ~~ How the techniques used to create the housing bubble were similar to the tricks used globally by the IMF and World Bank to put developing countries in a debt trap.
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Andrew Gause: The Deep Dark Truth of Sovereignty — 07 Apr 2010 — Andrew Gause explains the (raw) deal with the "Corporation of the United States of America." As bizarre and outrageous as his information about the corporate nature of our personhood sounds, it is correct. ~~ Other topics include the silver-market manipulation issue and the relationship between the money supply increases and price inflation
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Gary Null Show
Frances Moore Lappe — 16 Mar 2010 — A conversation with Frances Moore Lappe about democracy, fear mongering, and the reversal of fortune for the bottom 90% of the economy. Topics include how the "magic of the market" turned out to be a dirty trick; how we need to revise things so the rules tend to bring out the best in people, not the worst; and how we must recognize the dead ends offered by the blame game, polarization, and duality traps.
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Frances Moore Lappe book:
Getting A Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want
Jim Hightower
Selected Hightower commentaries, Mar-Apr 2010 ...
Wal-Mart's Mechanical Inhumanity
...OR... OR -- WalMart -- The high cost of no heart
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The Rebellion Spreads to Wall Street Itself
...OR... Even some Wall Streeters recognize that TBTF is TBTE
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Foreign Corporations in U.S. Elections?
...OR... "The Senator from Deutsche Bank has the floor..."
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The Supreme Court's Corporate Wonderland
...OR... The only survey segments supporting political rights for corporations are plutocrats and political poltroons
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Greedhead Trophy Up for Grabs
...OR... Health insurance hucksters rival Wall Street Weenies for outright greed
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On The Media
SLAPP Back — 02 Apr — A SLAPP suit, or "strategic lawsuit against public participation," is a little known but widespread threat to the First Amendment. SLAPPs are meritless suits brought by companies, individuals, and sometimes the government, not to win, but to silence critics. Congress is now considering federal anti-SLAPP legislation.
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Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal
"Corporate Personhood": There is No Precedent — 28 Mar 2010 — Self-taught legal scholar Mumia Abu Jamal has reread the precedent-setting case that has been cited for more than a century to confer "personhood" on US corporations. The trouble is, the decision itself does not say that!
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You Are Not a Gadget — 28 Mar 2010 — A Silicon Valley insider explains why sees danger in the concentration of power within small entities on the internet, and gives a historical context to today's issues.
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You Are Not a Gadget (by Jaron Lanier)
Against The Grain
Keeping Nations Down — 16 Mar 2010 — The tentacles of empire have been grasping at the poorer nations of the globe since the days of the conquistador. Today's methods are less overt but still big trouble for the world's poor.
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Rick Rowden book:
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism
Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Educational-Industrial Complex — 14 Mar 2010 — Mumia accurately observes that, just like with everything else, education today is about what big business wants, not about what students need.
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Democracy Now
Greg Palast: Vulture Funds Preying on African Debt — 03 Mar 2010 — Though Palast uses an overtly bleeding-heart delivery here, the facts are on his side—Western exploitation of Africa did not end with the formal abandonment of colonial rule.
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GoldRadio.fm
John Rubino: Putting The Gold In Goldman Sachs — 03 Mar 2010
Given that the world is now pretty clued in to the pirate mentality of Goldman Sachs, Rubino finds it astonishing that their exploits are continuing unabated.
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John Rubino books:
-- The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It
-- Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom
Living Hero
Vandana Shiva: Fighting Corporate Patriarchy — 01 Mar 2010 — Shiva discusses the hegemony of corporations in Western countries and in her native India, particularly as it pertains to agriculture. She points out that we have transitioned from a traditional patriarchal society to a "corporate patriarchy"—domination by corporations.
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Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal
Corporate Supremacy
Feb 2010 — People are rightly outraged by the recent Supreme Court decision green-lighting unlimited corporate spending on elections; but the truth is, corporate interests have owned the political process—and politicians—for the better part of a century.
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Max Keiser Radio
Goldman Sachs is 'Psycho'
Feb 2010 — Max outlines how the classic movie Psycho explains Goldman Sachs' behavior. In the movie, Norman Bates blamed his mother for his troubles, but he was dressing up and pretending to be his mother. In the present, Goldman Sachs is complaining that regulators are messing things up, though it is they, through their connections, that are driving the regulatory process.
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Flashpoints
Catherine Austin-Fitts Reviews The Facts on the "Financial Coup d'Etat"
Feb 2010 — Big-bank bailouts. No substantive changes to the system that supposedly necessitated the bailouts. These two facts tell Catherine Austin-Fitts that the government is essentially being held hostage by Wall Street interests.
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TED Talks
Peter Eigen: How to Expose the Corrupt
In his work with the World Bank, Peter Eigen realized that many of the world's most difficult social problems can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, working hand-in-glove with a money-trumps-ethics attitude in multinational companies. (Posted on TED Feb 2010; filmed Nov 2009)
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Morning Edition/NPR
More Americans Considering Community Banks
Feb 2010 — Bailouts, bonuses, and bad business practices have many Americans frustrated with big banks. They're moving their money to community banks.
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Media Matters
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Feb 2010 — Once upon a time, governments and major companies strove to make economic systems stable and consumer products reliable. Barry C. Lynn says that all changed when global financiers took control of things, squeezing every possible penny out of ever-cheaper products. The free-market freaks have also undone the buffering techniques and redundancies that previously ensured everything worked smoothly.
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Barry C. Lynn book:
Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
CounterSpin
Flack-Man Unmasked
Feb 2010 — Segments include... (1) Corporate PR flacks disguised as cable-news pundits ~~ (2) Did a local TV news piece on "Islamic radicals among us" spark a vandalism attack on a Nashville mosque?
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Max Keiser Radio
"Suicide Bankers" Leading Financial Jihad
Jan 2010 — Topics include...... How the "suicide bankers" are leading a global jihad against sound economic principles ~~ Will "dumping dollars" soon be declared an act of terrorism? ~~ As threats to the dollar increase, get ready for right-wing talkers to flip flop
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Democracy Now
Casino Jack and the United States of Money – A Look at Money in US Politics
Jan 2010 — Against the backdrop of the US Supreme Court's decision legalizing unlimited corporate expenditures on elections, there is a new documentary about the activities of notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who served as matchmaker between corporate interests and Republicans.
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Free Speech Radio News
Activists Push to Abolish "Corporate Personhood" in Wake of Supreme Court Decision
Jan 2010 — Thursday's Supreme Court ruling on election spending has already inspired a protest movement. The goal is to abolish the idea that corporations have the same constitutional protections as American citizens.
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One Radio Network
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Andrew Gause: Taxpayers vs. the Big Banks
Jan 2010 — Back in 2008, all of the problem mortgages could have been paid off with a couple hundred billion dollars. Yet the banks claimed they needed $700 billion to avoid an economic apocalypse. Riiiiiight. Andrew Gause thinks that a much better fix for the economy would have been to use that money to massively stimulate the economy by giving $5,000 to every taxpayer—and letting the troubled big banks fail.
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The Owners of the Owners of the Federal Reserve
Jan 2010 — Andy Gause discusses the relationship between money, the US government, the Federal Reserve ("Fed"), the owners of the Fed (the big banks), and the owners of the big banks (the wealthy elites). He also predicts confidently that the Congressional investigation into "what happened with the financial mess" will be only for show.
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Sierra Club Radio
Crude: Chevron vs. Ecuador
Jan 2010 — An interview with Joe Berlinger, producer of the documentary Crude, about the epic lawsuit against Chevron related to the damage done during oil extraction in the Amazon part of Ecuador, including massive groundwater contamination.
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NPR
Monsanto GMO Ignites Big Seed War
Jan 2010 — As its world-dominating "Roundup Ready" soybean strain comes up on its patent expiration date, Monsanto has plan for keeping farmers locked into its product.
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Jim Hightower
Flying Cash Registers
...OR... "Attention passengers, today's special is golden parachutes." (Feb 2010)
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Agribusiness Profits, Mutant Germs... and Us
...OR... They have more than just a drug problem down on the farm (Feb 2010)
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The Twisted Ethics of Corporate Trade Secrets
...OR... Worser living through chemistry (Jan 2010)
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Nader's Novel Idea
...OR... Ralphing all over corporate power (Jan 2010)
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The Poisonous Cloud of Corporate Immorality
...OR... Bhopal, 25 years later (Jan 2010)
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The Money Masters
More and more people are becoming familiar with terms like "central bank", "Federal Reserve," "money creation," and "fractional reserve banking." To better understand how such things affect the economic problems we face today—and that we have faced for three hundred years of tumultuous history—we strongly recommend The Money Masters, which is the authoritative documentary on the subject. It's long but worth it!
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