Posts Tagged ‘ Occupy Movement ’

More on economic inequality and the Occupy Movement

May 18, 2012
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Among mainstream or major media organizations Al Jazeera deserves credit for its attention to the issue of economic inequality. One recent opinion piece by Noam Chomsky (Plutonomy and the precariat: On the history of the US economy in decline) provides a concise overview of the causes of the growing economic inequality in the US and the disastrous consequences it is bringing about. (For more on how inequality is at the root most social evils, see this powerful lecture by Richard Wilkinson). Additionally, Chomsky’s article helps to explain just why the Occupy Movement  is so important, really one of the most…

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The CBC emulates FOX

January 3, 2012
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The following is a CBC interview with Chris Hedges on the Occupy Wall Street movement. The obnoxious interviewer in this segment is a man named Kevin O’Leary, a Canadian venture capitalist and “television personality.” In this brief and hostile interview, Hedges provides an astute analysis and description of the Occupy Movement and also correctly points out that O’Leary’s insults and aggression make the CBC no different from FOX News. Unlike FOX, however, the CBC is a public broadcaster. Americans merely have to tolerate FOX; Canadians are actually paying for the CBC with their taxes.

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