Economy

Holding Obama's Feet to the Fire

Airs at: Tue, 01/20/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

The day after Barack Obama's historic inauguration as president of the United States we'll look at how much has changed in the United States and what still needs to change in the days, months and years ahead. Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein is joined by guests John Cava... Read more

Radiozine on 1/15/09

Airs at: Thu, 01/15/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Per Fagereng speaks with Alan Rosenblith, director of "The Money Fix," a documentary film exploring different aspects of money creation. The Money Fix - World Premiere The Money Fix is an OFFICIAL SELECTION of the 2009 BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, where it will ma... Read more

Shockin n Rollin

Once again, Digby nails it. The fundamental purpose of the shock doctrine is to use crisis to push through unpopular and unjust "solutions" that favor the wealthy. We are seeing this battle take shape on several fronts. The right is working feverishly to discredit the N... Read more

The Bailouts: Who gets helped. Who doesn't.

Airs at: Wed, 12/10/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Presswatch

On the Dec 11 Presswatch, host Theresa Mitchell, with the "News you're not supposed to know," looks at who's being bailed out and who's not by the government and the U.S. Treasury (and all of us taxpayers). Guess what? There's a $40,000 handout that you aren't gettin... Read more

Index of leading asshattery indicators

I love Harper's Index. For those of you not familiar with it, Harper's Index appears near the front of every edition of Harper's magazine. It presents a sort of snapshot of current affairs by way of assembling a bunch of seemingly obscure, but ultimately telling, statis... Read more

RIAA To Shift Tactics

Interesting notes on the RIAA and their War on Us: "Peace in our time" - 10 years later the music industry's highly controversial strategy of suing individuals for illegal file-sharing has come to an end, wants ISPs to adopt a three-strikes policy. I've read the article ... Read more

Bailouts, Unions vs. Banks & More

Airs at: Wed, 12/03/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Presswatch

On the Dec 4 Presswatch host Theresa Mitchell with "the news you're not supposed to know" discusses the discrepencies in bailouts for banks vs. workers, and other issues. Read more

Walmart Trampling

Airs at: Thu, 11/27/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

A temp employee working at a suburban New York Wal-Mart was trampled to death by customers early this morning. KBOO's Alicia Mcdaid spoke to Patrick Purcell, a representative for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, about the incident. Read more

9th anniversary of WTO protests

Airs at: Tue, 12/02/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

Nov. 30 marked the nine year anniversary of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. With some economists now calling for a new WTO ministerial to deal with the global economic crisis, KBOO's Jenka Soderberg takes us back to 1999 to address whether the W-T-O is ... Read more

Mark Weisbrot on the Financial Crisis

Airs at: Tue, 11/25/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

A new 'national bank' plan by the Federal Reserve will allow the government to lend out up to 800 billion more dollars to banks and businesses. This is just the latest attempt to bail out the failing financial system in the US. KBOO's Jenka Soderberg spoke with Mark Weisbr... Read more