(2014/02/26) Resistance is the only hope (Capitalism)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 February 2014
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Edition #803
Resistance is the only hope
You remember that movie "The Neverending Story"? I grew up with that movie but didn't realize until much later how "The Nothing", the apocalyptic, all-consuming, evil force threatening to destroy the universe, was such a nice allegory for capitalism. I'll say one thing for "The Nothing" though, it's very efficient at what it does.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Here's a Capitalist That Doesn't Understand Capitalism - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 09-18-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Doing business - The Rorschach Garden
Ch. 4: Act 2: Return To Liberation Theology Scares Right - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date 12-13-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Capitalism - Yellow Umbrella
Ch. 6: Act 3: Peter Buffett: Big Philanthropy and Philanthro-Feudalism - @grittv - Air Date_ 11-26-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Nothing is good enough - Amiee Mann
Ch. 8: Act 4: Scientific Models Now Showing Revolt Is Our Only Chance? - @LeeCamp - Air Date: 10-30-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Revolt - CHANT
Ch. 10: Act 5: Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics Part 1 - Democracy In Crisis - @BillMoyers And Company - Air Date 11-22-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Generation - Emerson Hart
Ch. 12: Act 6: The New Economy Coalition - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 14: Act 7: Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics Part 2 - Still Room In The Oppression For Resistance - @BillMoyers And Company - Air Date 11-22-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 15: We need to be honest about the effects of drugs - Justin from Los Angeles
Ch. 16: How to get to the real issues - Natasha from LA
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 17: Final comments on shifting the paradigm of talking about gender confirmation surgeries
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
New Economy Coalition h/t Keith Harrington
CommonBound, Northeastern University
Sources/further reading:
Watch: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry Giroux on Bill Moyers
"End the 1 percent’s free ride: Taxing land would solve America’s biggest problems” by Jesse Myerson
"Noam Chomsky: Will Capitalism Destroy Civilization?”
Chris Hedges speech on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt via Lee Camp’s Moment of Clarity Podcast
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:07.9 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with HIP-State from the Tom Hartman |
| 0:11.6 | program, The Jimmy Doar Show, grit TV with Laura Flanders, comedian Lee Camp, Moyers |
| 0:15.9 | and Company, and a segment of BestOfTheLeft activism. |
| 0:18.9 | And a quick thought for those who remember the movie The Never Ending Story, I just figured |
| 0:23.1 | out today the all-consuming nothing that threatens the whole world, it's clearly an allegory |
| 0:28.2 | for capitalism. |
| 0:30.1 | Let me juxtapose two things for you here. |
| 0:33.3 | Robert Reich wrote this brilliant piece for the Huffington Post. |
| 0:39.0 | This was published I think yesterday, what is it today? |
| 0:41.2 | The 18th, it was the day before yesterday, called The Myth of the Free Market and how |
| 0:45.3 | to make the economy work for us. |
| 0:47.3 | And I've been saying this for years, I mean, if you've been, you know, a regular |
| 0:49.8 | list or two or a viewer of this program, you probably can recite this in your sleep, |
| 0:55.3 | but there is no such thing as a free market. |
| 0:58.7 | It just plain old flat out doesn't exist. |
| 1:04.8 | And Robert Reich comes right out and says that, you know, in fact, he says not only does |
| 1:09.4 | a free market, well, first of all, he points out this meme that the right wing wants us |
| 1:14.2 | to believe, all right, that the free market is infinite in its wisdom. |
| 1:18.8 | The free market solves all problems as he, to quote Robert Reich, our former labor secretary |
| 1:24.6 | and the Clinton administration, the best cabinet officer of any presidency in, I was going |
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