(2015/02/10) Economics disguised as politics (Cuba and Greece)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 February 2015
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #897
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Major Shift In US-Cuba Relations - Trade, Diplomacy To Flow - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-18-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Cuba - Cuba
Ch. 4: Act 2: Cuba: America Finally Waking from the Nixon Fog - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 12-17-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Richard Nixon - The American Song-Poem Anthology - Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush?
Ch. 6: Act 3: The media responds to normalized relations with Cuba - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 12-19-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Too Rude - Bright Side of Life (Bonus Track Version)
Ch. 8: Act 4: The economic implications of normalizing relations with Cuba - Economic Update w/ @profwolff - Air Date: 12-22-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Going Down to Cuba - Time the Conqueror
Ch. 10: Act 5: Mark Weisbrot on Greek Elections as a response to economic crisis - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 1-30-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Blame (feat. John Newman) - Motion
Ch. 12: Act 6: Media Miss Half the Story of The Greek Election - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 1-27-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: Greece - National Anthems (Anthems World)
Ch. 14: Act 7: Germany's double standard on Greece's debt - Economic Update w/ @profwolff - Air Date: 2-1-15
Voicemails
Ch. 16: Asking for vegitarianism is too big of an ask - Scott from Sacramento
Ch. 17: Thoughts on why I still eat meat - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 18: Inertia and customs - Bill in Northern Illinois
Ch. 19: Collective action is more effective than voluntary action - Julie in Brooklyn
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on the conversation on food choices and results from the listener survey
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | A very quick favor to ask before we get started. |
| 0:04.2 | I have a completely anonymous survey. |
| 0:06.4 | I would like you to take it to only 13 questions. |
| 0:09.1 | None of them are essay questions, so it's super quick. |
| 0:11.4 | Check it out at podsurvey.com slash left. |
| 0:15.7 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of Left podcast with clips today from the Young |
| 0:19.5 | Turks, the Tom Hartman program, Counter-Spend, Economic Update, and the F-Word with Laura |
| 0:25.1 | Flaunters. |
| 0:30.1 | We had the Cuban embargo for 54 years here in America, and it was this close to working |
| 0:37.3 | before Obama went and screwed it up. |
| 0:41.1 | Who thinks that? |
| 0:42.1 | Who thinks it was on the precipice of working? |
| 0:44.5 | All right, so new news coming out of the administration that we actually have some sort |
| 0:51.9 | of deal with the Cubans. |
| 0:53.7 | It's not like the embargo has been lifted. |
| 0:55.0 | It has not. |
| 0:56.0 | There's still a lot of restrictions. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm going to explain all that to you. |
| 0:59.3 | But let me go back in time a little bit here to about a year ago when we had what gate |
| 1:06.1 | were they called? |
| 1:07.1 | Handshake gate. |
| 1:08.1 | Remember when President Obama shook hands with Rural Castro when there were other international |
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