Corporatism Is The Problem
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes Donald Cohen, the founder and executive director of “In the Public Interest” and co-author of the book “The Privatization of Everything” to discuss the many different ways corporatism has corrupted so many of our public goods. Also, constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, joins us to give us his take on the constitutional ramifications of U.S. involvement in the conflict between Russian and Ukraine. Plus, we wish a happy hundredth birthday to legendary journalist, Morton Mintz and say a heartfelt goodbye to the innovative law professor, who created programs to provide legal representation to low-income Americans and devised the concept of Time Banking, Edgar Cahn.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tom Morello and you're listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:13.6 | My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello, David. |
| 0:17.6 | Hello, Steve. |
| 0:18.8 | Good to have you here and it's also good to have the man of the hour here, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:21.8 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:22.8 | Hey, well, you're going to hear a show about the US government has been contracted |
| 0:27.4 | out to corporations on a massive scale. |
| 0:30.7 | You are correct, sir. |
| 0:31.8 | Our featured guest today will be Donald Cohen, the founder and executive director |
| 0:36.3 | of in the public interest, a national resource and policy center on privatization |
| 0:41.7 | and responsible contracting. |
| 0:43.7 | Mr. Cohen is co-author of the new book, the privatization of everything. |
| 0:47.8 | We discussed privatization and its evil twin corporateization, a lot on this |
| 0:52.5 | program from foreign wars to fresh water, from prisons to pensions, from health |
| 0:58.2 | care to home loans, privatization just seems that pop up well everywhere. |
| 1:03.4 | We'll ask Mr. Cohen about his new book and what it means when the public |
| 1:07.4 | reclaims control of public goods. |
| 1:10.0 | As always, somewhere in the middle, we'll check in with our corporate crime |
| 1:12.5 | reporter, Russell Moekeyeber. |
| 1:14.5 | At the end of the show, we're going to discuss two leading important figures this |
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